Dilemma....
#1
Dilemma....
I have a 2017 SVR, and I love it overall. Drives great and gets so much attention. Yet, I’ve been heavily pining for an M5 Competition. Am I crazy?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
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I have a 2017 SVR, and I love it overall. Drives great and gets so much attention. Yet, I’ve been heavily pining for an M5 Competition. Am I crazy?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
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I have a 2017 SVR, and I love it overall. Drives great and gets so much attention. Yet, I’ve been heavily pining for an M5 Competition. Am I crazy?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
I don't mind the "crap tech" because I don't use it much. I've got a couple of thousand songs on USB and I have satellite radio, both of which I use while commuting. Navigation? I think I've legitimately used it fewer than 10 times. I sometimes enter a destination I already know just to see the route it would choose, but it's the first car I've had with navigation so have no comparison.
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#8
This reminds me of this youtube video.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-6_H0haAw
Maybe other factors are at play with this race, good watch though.
What do you think of a higher trim Tesla? I think that would fit the tech bill well. Have you test driven a XJR as well?
Maybe other factors are at play with this race, good watch though.
What do you think of a higher trim Tesla? I think that would fit the tech bill well. Have you test driven a XJR as well?
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I have a 2017 SVR, and I love it overall. Drives great and gets so much attention. Yet, I’ve been heavily pining for an M5 Competition. Am I crazy?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
Is it the crap tech? Am I over the 2 seater thing? Do I want a more refined ride? More luxury? I don’t know....
I had and loved a 2010 XFR. Maybe that’s my sweet spot....super sedan that can do it all.
Any thoughts?
#10
The Tesla is awesome in a straight line, and the technology on the car is exceptional, but the car for me is a one trick pony. It's fast in a straight line. That's about it. Build quality is poor (as it in with Jaguar, to be fair), the design is bland, and the cars have astonishingly poor interiors, way behind cost comparable vehicles. For me it's a 30K interior in a 100K car. I'd personally prefer any other car in that line up to the Tesla. Obviously YMMV.
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A Tesla is a computer on wheels. The Jag is a "proper" car with a computer. Choose which you prefer.
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#15
Maybe rent the best sedan you can for a week and see if you miss the attention. The M5 is an awesome car, but it is very understated especially compared to (say) an XFR-S. Torching $5K on the rental would be nothing compared to the cost of making a mistake. It is when you get back into the F Type that you'd realise what you can live with.
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All great and fair comments....I have driven the XJR, and it’s really great. It’s big and it’s staggering that Jag let the XJ languish by not having a V8 AWD version....SVR is AWD, but the XJR isn’t? Huh?!
See, I think the SVR is special and I think the M5 would be cool. I can’t help but feel that after a few months in an M5 the novelty of new may wear off because at the end of the day it looks like a somewhat ordinary sedan....
See, I think the SVR is special and I think the M5 would be cool. I can’t help but feel that after a few months in an M5 the novelty of new may wear off because at the end of the day it looks like a somewhat ordinary sedan....
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The M5 will likely be faster, far more comfortable, easier to modify (larger aftermarket), exhibit far superior build quality, and have all the latest tech gadgets, most of which we can only dream of in our Jags. If I had the choice, I'd go for the M5. I've owned a few M-cars and can't say I've ever been disappointed with a single one.
Connecting rod bearings don't seem to have plagued the F90 M5s. It was more of a problem with the N/A models of the past (E46 M3, E9X M3, E60 M5, E39 M5) due to extremely tight bearing clearances and the use of the factory recommended 10w-60 oil viscosity which by some have concluded is too thin for colder-than-average climates.
Connecting rod bearings don't seem to have plagued the F90 M5s. It was more of a problem with the N/A models of the past (E46 M3, E9X M3, E60 M5, E39 M5) due to extremely tight bearing clearances and the use of the factory recommended 10w-60 oil viscosity which by some have concluded is too thin for colder-than-average climates.
#20
Get the M5 if you want to blend in with many other similar cars. The good news is that only you and other men will know what that M stands for. While women are throwing themselves on a Jaguar.
4-seater gives the sensation of driving for Uber without the paying customers. And you get to compete with all the other 4-door rice burners and such that want to race you at the light.
My brother went from M5 to Ftype, he was a BMW devotee, he thanks me for saving him from ubiquity and old age.
4-seater gives the sensation of driving for Uber without the paying customers. And you get to compete with all the other 4-door rice burners and such that want to race you at the light.
My brother went from M5 to Ftype, he was a BMW devotee, he thanks me for saving him from ubiquity and old age.