The SM70 family has a new pet

"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg) 12/09/2017 at 14:43 • Filed to: None

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It’s a cat. To be more specific, it’s a black 2005 Jaguar X-Type 3.0 Sportwagon. It’s my brother’s first car, and the seventh car my family has purchased in the past 12 months (as there are seven of us with licenses, everyone but one has gotten a new car this year and I’ve gotten two). It’s black over black with 98k miles on the clock, and we paid $3,250 for it. It needs a bit of work, but at that price it’s nothing that isn’t worth sorting out. My brother wanted a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that could carry him and all his guitars/amps/other band shit. With just 1,600 of these sold in the states, it’s certainly unique. Also, my family now has two 2005 AWD station wagons which were made by a normal company and then had interesting European luxury badges slapped on.

Not his actual car pictured, I’ll take pictures of it/hopefully drive it when I get home on Monday. His has black wheels and the Leaper.

Sovande > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 15:01

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Just saw one of these the other day for the first time, also black. Cool car!!

MultiplaOrgasms > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 15:02

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Rebadged as being european?

Nibby > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 15:02

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awesome mondeo wagon!

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > MultiplaOrgasms 12/09/2017 at 15:03

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Ok, so the Mondeo was a European Ford. Maybe I should reword that.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Nibby 12/09/2017 at 15:11

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Hopefully that means there will be fewer catastrophic malfunctions.

MultiplaOrgasms > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 15:11

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No worries. One of my grandfathers used to own a Ford 17M Wagon many years ago. I shall from now on refer to it as a Lincoln Continental Wagon that they made smaller, put a Saab engine in (or maybe it had the 1.8 V6, I only know it was a 17M), built 500 miles away from a communist country and slapped an uninteresting badge on.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > MultiplaOrgasms 12/09/2017 at 15:13

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Whatever you say dear.

gmctavish needs more space > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 16:21

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He is now the proud owner of half an Aston V12

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > gmctavish needs more space 12/09/2017 at 16:25

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He’s also the proud owner of the car which the Queen herself drives when she isn’t in the mood to be chauffeured.

EL_ULY > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 16:46

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Cooooooooooool!

EL_ULY > gmctavish needs more space 12/09/2017 at 16:47

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Some DB7 Vantage of that time had 6 cyl engines

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 17:27

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Is that 3.0 also Ford’s Duratec?

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 17:43

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How did I not know that they brought these over?

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 12/09/2017 at 18:36

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Yup

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 12/09/2017 at 18:38

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Because you never see them.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/09/2017 at 18:41

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What out for disentigrating cooling hoses. Other than that, it’s flawless.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 12/09/2017 at 19:28

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That’s good to know. Thanks!

gmctavish needs more space > EL_ULY 12/09/2017 at 21:40

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True, but those were straight sixes, and unrelated to the V12. I’ve wanted one of those DB7s with the straight six for a while, that would be an interesting thing

AuthiCooper1300 > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/10/2017 at 11:45

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You mean he also owns a LWB Landie?

AuthiCooper1300 > MultiplaOrgasms 12/10/2017 at 11:54

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Maybe you were just joking (in that case, disregard the comment) but Ford’s Köln V4 appeared first in the Taunus and only later was it fitted to Saabs...

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > AuthiCooper1300 12/10/2017 at 13:38

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AuthiCooper1300 > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 12/10/2017 at 13:52

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Yup, I’d seen those pics of Lilibeth! However:

By the way, I quite liked the X-Type at the time (which, irrespective whether it should be considered “a real Jaguar” has fewer Mondeo parts than people think).

Never tried the estate though.