New car for 2011...

[Juniortubed]

The Jag is my dream car: It's British, It's beautiful, drives brilliantly and manages to occupy this unique position where it's considered extremely classy but not gauche. Answer me this, how many footballers do you see driving Jags?!

Also from a more financial point of view, they will both depreciate. However what the Jag has over the Audi is that it was designed by the Callum brothers. I think it's far more likely to turn into a classic than the R8 but I'm heavily biased........please get a Jag and send me the pics!

[Juniortubed]

oh and congratulations on being able to afford one, I'm sure you worked hard for it so enjoy it!

[cohibaIV]

IMHO the new Jag is worlds apart from the R8...

Two different cars..

R8 say's mid life crises...

Jag say's Style....

BUT!

I do like the R8..

Christ...I'm glad I don't have to make this kind of choice...

[PoohBore]

wow, what a choice. I love both cars but there is something about the Jag that would make me go that way.

Did you consider the Nissan GT-R ?

[Turbo]

Generally I'm a BMW man, I'm on my 3rd, but I have a friend who is an accountant for jag and he has one, it's pretty special but I reckon the R8 is a real future classic recognised by all that see it! The jag you can park in tesco and most people don't even look!

[Styler]

R8 say's mid life crises...

Jag say's Style....

Hehe, I'm often amused by differences in perception. I'd have seen that the opposite way around.

[Lionhound]

Absolutely no contest. R8 without a doubt.
25 to 30 years ago wouldn't have looked beyond the Jag but not now.
Vorsprung durch technique.

[seanbeer]

Only test drives can help you decide really.

R8 shouts super car to me, where as the jag shouts Modern British.

ok, i konw what i want. A R8 and an E-type, best of both world.

[monkey66]

The R8 is probably technically superior but for me I would take the Jag.
....but, of course, it is far more important what you think than all of us put together.

[Drewmidorn]

I have a Citroen C1... It's brilliant! Not sure if it's the sort of thing you're looking for though. lol

[Robusto]

We are negotiating cars, holidays, the usual, here right now.

Daimler? Or Cinquecento?

Well, having driven from Dover to Buxton and back in our Cinquecento last week, I'd say the Cinquecento wins on economy but loses out in the plush domain. Passengers in the rear seats have to agree to do a Terry Waite for the duration. Nobody can move an inch at all. My TALL kids are effin this effin that throughout.

I miss my Scenic. She died and went to heaven just before we all flew to Cuba and hasn't been replaced. She had comfort, space, nice windscreen wipers and lovely speakers AND she doubled as a gigmobile quite comfortably.

With the Cinquecento, my keyboards stretch from the rear glass well into the folded down passenger seat. They are on close terms with the front windscreen. Then there are amps, monitors, cable box, stands, stage seat, all sorts to cram in.

There is no space left for anyone else to get in the car. You drive whilst being cuddled and assaulted by a music shop. All this shit cracks against the window whilst you negotiate the white cliffs bends of Dover and Folkestone. Once an amp cracked a window and fell out on a roundabout.

And as the gig I was bought in to play on New Year's Eve was the second weirdest and worst I've ever played out of hundreds and hundreds, I am mightily relieved that I was unable to take along the slimmest of Terry Waites.

Never EVER play with a person who had a side-stage sniff of fame backing someone famous 30 or 40 years ago. They can be living the dream. They can be in reality a faded showbiz nightmare. Oh yes.

I reckon I'm going to need a vehicle to load butch music stuff into until I die. I cannot be obsessed with stylish, unblemished cars until I win the lottery, so I have recently test driven a Kangoo and a Doblo. The poor Doblo looks like it has additional needs, but I am very fond of it.

I actually like the Kangoo very much. It has high open luggage shelves and I could imagine flicking leather gloves up to the ceiling and seeing them drop onto the accommodating shelves. I really like that sort of feature in a gigging musician's vroom vroom.

[Drewmidorn]

Never EVER play with a person who had a side-stage sniff of fame backing someone famous 30 or 40 years ago. They can be living the dream.

We're not all that bad... although I imagine most of us are! lol

[Robusto]

Ill have to tell you about it down the line mate. It was some weird trip. Half the band was bought in and nobody could confirm who was a player and who was a guest. There was a scene on a balcony buffet. Best bit was the sacking of a rhythm guitarist at the end of a first set because the faded star and his lady bit felt the guitarist was acting unprofessional lol. It was camp as.

[seanbeer]

[bigbarneyhotdog]

Merc's are very nice