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Old 11th Sep 2006, 06:28
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How was it? Accurate, I'd say!

I don't know of a SUV with a V12 - but the truly mad Dodge SRT-10 pick-up might perhaps suit sir's requirements? A little 8.3 litre, 500 hp V10 'standard pick up truck' with a 0-60 in the low 5s, 150 mph+, no doubt to outrun Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane whilst letting out a rebel yell, it returns a mere 12 mpg highway, 9 mpg city (USG)........

No doubt you can get it with roof spots, 108 inch antenna, shotgun racks, one-eyed dog, giggling half-wit in the passenger seat drinking moonshine from a jam jar?

Gloriously non-PC - they should call it the Dodge Kyoto to really pi$$ off the enviro-fundamentalists!

The 'snob appeal' of the Double-Six was crazy. Same car as the XJ-12 but with different badging to appeal to those who considered the Jag-yoo-arr too common....

Lousy unreliable things 20-30 years ago - but fine today. Back then the UK was at the mercy of trade unions, then Maggie took them on - and won. If only she'd stopped there and then instead of encouraging the yuppie-in-red-braces greed of the mid-80s which turned people away from Conservative government. Then the disaster of John 'It's good to be grey' Major's government gave a landslide victory to the slime of NooLabor and Tony-the-poodle who obediently trots across the pond with tongue hanging out whenever Mad George clicks his fingers....

But still not as bad as the grumpy Grn Brun.....
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