Jaguar used to make some pretty fast cars with inline sixes. They sounded amazing, too.
“Jaguar used to make some pretty fast cars with inline sixes. They sounded amazing, too.”
Can confirm the XJs of the 1990s while electrical nightmares purred like kittens. I had a European spec V12 Vanden Plas that was a good sounding motor when it decided to run that day after chanting and live animal sacrifice to Lucas the dark Prince of electrical.
A Jaguar doesn’t accelerate it advances.
There’s nothing wrong with a straight 6 per se (from what I’ve read, Toyota’s 4&6 cylinder engines are perfected examples of the original Chevy stovebolt 6 of the 1930s/40s). And the Chrysler flathead 6s were made into the 1970s for industrial and agricultural applications (as the design was indestructible).
I just find it funny that the company that’s been famous for the V8 Hemi since the 1950s is putting a 6 cylinder engine in a car that’s marketed as a sports/muscle car.