gramey
Active Member
I do wonder sometimes if Americans fascination with modifying their cars is due to the lamentable performance and handling of their home grown products, certainly up until recent years. It as always a mystery as to how they managed to squeeze so few horsepower out so many cc's and the suspension and brakes were still based on the stage coach only changing fairly recently under the onslaught of european and far eastern cars.As for Taverish as his video says his SL55 was always bought as a project car starting with the cheapest one he could find and it clearly helps to have a four post lift in your garage.
There was a n early reference in this thread poking fun at the low power output of the Daimler Double Six compared to the CL600 but you have to remember that engine was a cost cutting production exercise and was based on a 1960's design. The original engine had double overhead cams and 502 bhp but by the time the engine went into the saloon Jaguar were owned by British Leyland, the least said about which the better. I had a Jaguar XJ12 Sovereign and the performance wasn't starling but it was silky smooth and would cruise effortlessly at 120 mph with barely a whisper.
The Mercedes V12 wasn't built with an accountant pulling the strings and they're definitely no slouch, an S600 floored it away from the lights in front of me a couple weeks ago and it wasn't slow and sounded nice with it, at least from the outside.
There was a n early reference in this thread poking fun at the low power output of the Daimler Double Six compared to the CL600 but you have to remember that engine was a cost cutting production exercise and was based on a 1960's design. The original engine had double overhead cams and 502 bhp but by the time the engine went into the saloon Jaguar were owned by British Leyland, the least said about which the better. I had a Jaguar XJ12 Sovereign and the performance wasn't starling but it was silky smooth and would cruise effortlessly at 120 mph with barely a whisper.
The Mercedes V12 wasn't built with an accountant pulling the strings and they're definitely no slouch, an S600 floored it away from the lights in front of me a couple weeks ago and it wasn't slow and sounded nice with it, at least from the outside.