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      08-19-2009, 11:49 AM   #108
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Originally Posted by immiketoo View Post
Speaking of truck motors, isn't Jaguar owned by Land Rover??? They make trucks, I think...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Cars
God knows who owns who anymore but Jaguar don't put the engines from SUV's (they don't make trucks) into their cars. They put the silky engines from their cars into their high end SUV's. BIG difference.

I love the whole idea of the Viper for what it is. Something along the lines of a TVR but you have to accept the realities of it. It is a truck powered car and it has no driver aids (just like a TVR) which you can paint anyway you want by saying driving purity etc but the bottom line is the absence of driver aids is just plain dangerous for most average drivers. And no one can defend that interior in a 100k car.
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