[Tribby]

I wind him up by telling him his S type has got the exact same engine as my Maverick!

:lol: I was on the phone to a sales person a few days back organising a test drive. He offered a test drive of the 3.0L X-Type.
I said "No thanks, I'm very familiar with that engine, it's in my Tribute"
He then started to get quite defensive and told me how "the two engines are are completly different, it's like comparing Apes and Humans." "We have the same basic structure as apes but are completly different, this is just like the 3.0L in the X-Type and the 3.0L in your Tribute."

I'll ask him next saturday "How can the tribute's 3.0L & the x-type's 3.0L share the same bore & stroke, the same exact displacment and the same compression ratio, yet still be completly different engines?" :box:

I'll also ask about the Ford Mondeo 2.2L Diesel engine fitted in the x-type as well :lol:

 

[Blood Junkie]

I wind him up by telling him his S type has got the exact same engine as my Maverick!

:lol: I was on the phone to a sales person a few days back organising a test drive. He offered a test drive of the 3.0L X-Type.
I said "No thanks, I'm very familiar with that engine, it's in my Tribute"
He then started to get quite defensive and told me how "the two engines are are completly different, it's like comparing Apes and Humans." "We have the same basic structure as apes but are completly different, this is just like the 3.0L in the X-Type and the 3.0L in your Tribute."

I'll ask him next saturday "How can the tribute's 3.0L & the x-type's 3.0L share the same bore & stroke, the same exact displacment and the same compression ratio, yet still be completly different engines?" :box:

I'll also ask about the Ford Mondeo 2.2L Diesel engine fitted in the x-type as well :lol:

I know. Like Ford are gonna cough up millions in R&D to develop a 3.0 litre engine for Jaguar, when they've already got one! :wacko:

What I wanna know is how come the book BHP on my Dad's S type is around 240, when the Mav is about195/200?

 

[jpark]

Variable valve timing.

The US Fusion also has this V6 as an option, but it has 221HP in that form instead of 200HP. The '09 US E/M/T will get that same engine.

 

[stone]

Is Bentley still in existence ? What is Bugatti doing these days?

 

[jonas1022]

Bentley and Rolls Royce were sold off to BMW and Volkswagen respectively. Or did I just get them swapped around :shrug: . In any case, both are doing well after some major redesigns. Bugatti? IDK, isn't that also owned by another European manufacturer? I remember reading about it, but don't remember who or what is the outcome...

 

[Stryford]

Bentley and Rolls Royce were sold off to BMW and Volkswagen respectively. Or did I just get them swapped around :shrug: . In any case, both are doing well after some major redesigns. Bugatti? IDK, isn't that also owned by another European manufacturer? I remember reading about it, but don't remember who or what is the outcome...

You got it swapped around. BMW owns Rolls Royce while VW owns Bentley.
VW also owns Bugatti.

 

[camusdarrach]

Bentley and Rolls Royce were sold off to BMW and Volkswagen respectively. Or did I just get them swapped around :shrug: . In any case, both are doing well after some major redesigns. Bugatti? IDK, isn't that also owned by another European manufacturer? I remember reading about it, but don't remember who or what is the outcome...

You got it swapped around. BMW owns Rolls Royce while VW owns Bentley.
VW also owns Bugatti.

But the new owners of Bentley have no idea of what the marque stood for.
My uncle replaced his Bentley with one of the 2 door coupes, and after a drive in it, I don't like it, it just seems that the soul has gone.
Indeed, 3 years ago, I collected his previous Bentley from the factory at Crewe, which had a badly potholed road leading to its main entrance, deliberatley created to show the ride quality of the Rolls / Bentley cars
The "britishness" of the cars has gone, to be replaced by German efficiency!

 

[jonas1022]

Cam, if you say so.

"The "britishness" of the cars has gone, to be replaced by German efficiency!"

I prefer to think of it as British Luxury replaced by German Austerity.

They couldn't be too efficient, they lost the previous two world wars!