Jaguar CX75

Hmmmm…. you remember that local Jaguar I showed you the other day HERE on this blog

 

well, check this 2010 Jaguar out….

 

I mean, now that's a 21st century car, huh?

Underneath is a photo slide show using photos courtesy of

www.autoexpress.co.uk

My LUCKY DAY today

Yep! It was my lucky day today.

I had to take my Mitsubishi Space Wagon to

I had purchased this 10 year old car last year from (click image to go there)

The year before we had bought our New Hyundai from there – the VERY BEST deal anyone had offered us. Anyway, tired of all the continuous breakdowns with my Renault Espace, I checked Motorcentrum and they had the Space Wagon at a crazy low price. I bought it – in the deal I got a free service, a new catalysator and it sailed through Bilprovning. I got a brilliant deal from them, much better than I could find when I researched the internet.

I was very happy with the deal and have remained happy with the car with which I am totally amazed.

Today I took it to Bilprovning. I was not aware of any problem, except maybe a wheel balance vibration.

WOW! During the braking stress test – where they pressure the brakes very heavily as though you were doing an emergency stop – a brake pipe ruptured. NO BRAKES!

I feel so lucky that this happened at that moment and not when I was driving on the roads These things happen with cars and it is the first real problem I have had with this superb car which in every other way has been a really good purchase..

Magnificent autumn day

Mists rolled around the lakes and I travelled to Bengtsfors through spasmodic thick mists that seemed as though they wished to linger longer in this beautiful countryside.

By lunchtime, however, they had gone – revealing a wonderfully almost summer day.

if you click the picture you should get a much bigger picture

Saab-BMW

via

Well, that should help to keep the price high!

Whilst I do sincerely wish Saab well, it is of some concern than neither GM (in 20 years) nor Spyker (since 2000) have managed to be profitable. Presumably Spyker's sales targets are a critical aspect of their budget predictions/business plan  on which they secured loans which enabled them to purchase Saab. They need 45000 car sales in 2010 and are only at 25% of that target by the end of June.

It makes me wonder what collateral assets (land,buildings,etc) Saab owns that supported the loan advances Spyker received.

Nevertheless, BMW must have felt there was a Saab future – though actually they have nothing to lose by the deal. They can sell extra engines and it's Saab's responsibility to see that the engineering functions.

Bright Eyes