At 7 years old, the XK isn’t a kitten anymore – but with a rumored 3 years until the next redesign, what’s a luxury marque to do? Make special editions, of course. On the surface, the XKR-S looks like a baby-boomer dressed like a teenager, or as the Brits put it: mutton dressed as lamb.
Tag: 5.0L
I live in the country, well outside city limits in the septic tank/well/propane tank kind of area. Like many that live out where the blacktop ends, we have some farm animals, over a mile of fencing and a pasture in need of TLC. Since I’m a DINK and have a day job that has nothing to do with my animal husbandry, I’m apparently the perfect demographic for a luxury pickup. True to form, the last 5 times I shopped, I wanted a pickup truck. Badly. Every time it came time to put money down however, I ended up with a sedan, station wagon or SUV. Still, I’m not ashamed to admit my loins burn for a “cowboy Cadillac”, and now that my GMC Envoy has 140,000 miles on the clock it’s time for a 6,000lb tow-capable replacement. Since the HD pickup trucks are honestly overkill for the majority of us, I hit Ford up for an F-150 Platinum to see if I should take the plunge.


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Ryoku75 - Thats an issue that even police car Crown Vics have, you’d think that Ford would’ve learned better after the Pinto incident.
Ryoku75 - Considering how de contended later Town Cars became and how identical they were to taxis I don’t see them as being all that luxurious...
bigtruckseriesreview @ Youtube - Basically, the MKT tests how: #1 you feel about Crossovers #2 how you feel about Lincoln. I personally feel...
Pebble - Lovelovelove this. What I wouldn’t give to have my robins-egg blue ’61 Valiant back. A far better car than all your Kia...
OneAlpha - So, after realizing they’ve porked up the 3-series beyond the ability to make a proper M3 out of it, they do this. Good. I applaud this effort, and I would...
dswilly - Building a base 1 series or 3 series sedan for 32-34k doesn’t get you what you want? On the website build your own I added in leather and sport seats on the 1 and it...
Pete Zaitcev - I may not be on the center of the market, but I like i128 with 3.0L NA straight-six. An anachronism, surely. A Bimmer salesman showed me a 3-something with I-4 turbo...
Pebble - Yesterday I was driving my Town Car in Las Vegas traffic (and enjoying every second of the soft ride and excessive dimensions) when a MKT...
jdmcomp - Actually, oil tank. Easy to fill, cools the oil.
jdmcomp - Sorry, I should have been more pointed. I mean street legal for a kit car as that is what this is, another body for...