What are you looking for in a car?
2 categories, Wants / Needs
Fill the need get the wants as you can.
A jag is more of a want type vehicle under all conditions. It is easily beaten in every category, most of them with lower initial priced cars.
It is a division of an Indian make, since I believe 08. I think its Tata motors.
Need great reliable transportation? Buy a used late model Honda Civic, the lowest end cheapest model you can get, or a Toyota Corolla, again the lowest end model you can get. Either of these cars with reasonable maintenance will cart you and your groceries around for 200K miles if you change the oil. If you do good maintenance, you can get 3 or 400K out of either.
The wants (bluetooth, navigation, phone comms) in that level vehicle all come in the form of a head unit replacement and some reasonable addons.
You can find the nice leather seats, so on and so forth, over time, at a yard if you look out for recent totals. You can find almost all the extra parts to make it the higher model this way.
This would be a toy. I already have two vehicles for reliable transportation.
Toys still take time and effort.
The idea of a toy varies widely from person to person. What do you want from your toy?
Speed? Handling? Comfort? Showiness? That kind of stuff really determines.
If you want straight line speed start with a RWD V8 powered beast. If you want handling and racecourse level play, get soemthing AWD with a turbo that you can tune. If you want the creature comfort for nice relaxing drives in the woods. Something like the Jag is in your wheelhouse, but that thing is a nightmare still. If you just want it for nigger reasons to show off to others, go for the most expensive thing you can buy...
I have several toys outside of my daily drivers.
I have a BMW 550, and an Audi TT (MK1), both are good for their own things. I like to take the BMW on long relaxing rides. I love to rip around corners in the TT... That BMW will never handle as well at that TT, that TT will never be as comfortable as the BMW. Both of them are fucking money pits, even with me doing most of the work.
Daily drivers I look toward Toyota though. I want reliability as my first option in those. Sure they aren't exciting, but they go A to B, every day, without hassle.
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