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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Yet another XK8 sighting report
From: Victor Naumann <jagdoc@erols.com>:
> The 8 engine is the best performing engine of it's size available today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who cares?
> The idea was maximum useable power with
> accebtable fuel economy.
OK, quickie survey here: How many Jaguar owners on this list bought their
Jag because it had acceptable fuel economy?
> And it succeeds very well.
I succeeds very well at accomplishing the wrong objectives. Tell it to a
Ford exec, we're not impressed.
> There is talk of a
> supercharged version for next year...
IOW, we KNOW we screwed up and made the engine too small, but we can fix it
with a quickie upgrade! Lessee, now, just how many legendary Jaguars had
superchargers?
> and it looks like it was designed for a
> supercharger to lay between the banks of the intake.
Is there any V8 that doesn't?
> A six or seven litre
> would be unacceptably heavy and expensive.
In whose humble opinion? From all accounts, the V-12 could have easily been
made into a 7+ litre engine, and it wouldn't weigh any more nor cost any
more than it did in the past. That would have made a simple revision to the
existing engine far preferable to the "all new Jaguar design".
Still not up-to-date enough? Fine -- fit new 4-valve heads to it, based on
the AJ6 heads.
> Mercedes 12 is well over
> 100,000.00 and that is way too much for most people.
IMHO, Mercedes appeals to a different market.
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