The Ranting Thread

[Reliant121]

...Even my girly girl cousin knows that her dad drives a Galaxy. And she has as much interest in cars as I have in skimpy lingerie.

[Mikey]

...Even my girly girl cousin knows that her dad drives a Galaxy.

Is that a Euro-specific model, or do you mean an antique Ford Galaxie?

And she has as much interest in cars as I have in skimpy lingerie.

You mean viewing, or wearing?

[Reliant121]

Euro-specific model, it's a huge (by our standards) luxury people carrier, with a 2.0 TDCI engine.

As to the lingerie, both.

[Mikey]

Oh, so not the classic Galaxie from 1959 - 1974:

[Sionnach Glic]

I don't think I've ever even seen one of those before.

[Reliant121]

Ah, no. Around the time that would have come out we would have been in something like a Morris Minor

[Mikey]

I don't think I've ever even seen one of those before.

I can't imagine they would have ever been popular in Europe. They were huge honking things. That particular one is a 1966 Galaxie Sunliner (convertible,) with a 7-liter engine.

[Reliant121]

yeah, the average engine size of cars for us at that time was probably a 1.3 litre.

That wouldn't have gone down well

[Angharrad]

My dad had a Galaxy in the 70's. That's when he decided FORD really did mean Fix Or Repair Daily

[Reliant121]

Strangely, Fords over here are bought FOR their Reliability.

Interesting how euro/yankee cars change.

[Angharrad]

up to then he had always bought Ford. I think he bought one more, also with multiple problems. Never bought one again.

[Reliant121]

If I go back really really far my family have always had a Ford, since the first Escort. Before I was born there was the odd Rover, an awful Austin Maestro and afterwards two Hyundai's otherwise Ford all the way.

[Mikey]

But look at it this way: how many people do you know were just dying to get their hands on one of the Ford-era Jaguars?

I had a customer once get so steamed at me that she actually turned red. The problem was that she had a Ford-era S-type to trade in. We told her what the value was - naturally, the same as a Ford Taurus of the same year and equipment level, because that's what the S-type was. She complained that she paid $8,000 more than an equivalent Taurus, because she bought a vaunted Jaguar. We ended up telling her that she should have did a little more research into what she was buying back then, because she obviously would have done better with the Ford.

[Reliant121]

Well, my Dad would give quite a lot to get hold of an X-Type estate....but Dad's rather...crazy.

[Mark]

Let me tell you some stories about Jaguars. The S-type (of this century) are utter POSs. We have clients bringing them in for service every three months and I don't mean for oil changes....I mean major repairs. The part I love is the attitude they get because "la-de-da, I drive a Jaguar!" As Mikey said, the asst service mgr down there is a really sweet and plain spoken woman, who lets people know her Explorer retails for more than the S type did.

The X types are a hit or miss. Either you get a really good one and have no trouble, or you get one reminiscant of the S type.

Of all the dealerships we service, the Porsche's are the most reliable servicewise.