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7/16/2025, 11:51:48 AM
7/3/2025, 9:26:19 AM
Pros:
>Really stands out and attracts attention (where I live anyway)
>Big V8 (godlike sound, plenty of power)
>Manual, RWD, no handholding (very engaging to drive)
>very simple machine, no frills (can repair many things myself)
Cons:
>Really stands out and attracts attention (can get tiresome, every other tesla wants to race me)
>Big V8 (Terrible fuel economy)
>Manual, RWD, no handholding (not fun in slow traffic at all, occasionally scary)
>very simple machine, no frills (feels very rough in many ways and older than it is)
>Really stands out and attracts attention (where I live anyway)
>Big V8 (godlike sound, plenty of power)
>Manual, RWD, no handholding (very engaging to drive)
>very simple machine, no frills (can repair many things myself)
Cons:
>Really stands out and attracts attention (can get tiresome, every other tesla wants to race me)
>Big V8 (Terrible fuel economy)
>Manual, RWD, no handholding (not fun in slow traffic at all, occasionally scary)
>very simple machine, no frills (feels very rough in many ways and older than it is)
6/29/2025, 7:39:38 AM
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>by European standards this car is rubbish. Its engine has wasteful, unused capacity that turns fuel into nothing, it couldn’t get from one end of a country lane to the other without running out of brakes and it handles like a newborn donkey.
>There’s more, too. It’s got a gruff engine note, its interior has the panache of an Afghan’s cave and . . . and . . . and I can’t go on. You see, I’m running through all this car’s bad points but I’m afraid my mind is consumed by the bit where I was doing 65mph on the 101, listening to some Eagles on 104.3.
And then by the subsequent memory of grumbling along the waterfront in San Francisco itself, the city setting for Bullitt, the film that etched the Mustang for all time on the petrolhead’s radar.
You see, I kept thinking I’m in a Mustang in San Francisco on a glorious September afternoon. And I liked that a lot. I liked it so much that I became consumed with the notion of maybe taking a small part of the experience home with me.
>Whenever I drive a GTI I’m always full of admiration for its abilities, but when I was driving that Mustang I liked it. And that’s sort of more important.
>Verdict Horrid but very loveable
I can't really argue with anything Clarkson said, but I think time has been very kind to the S197, because all newer cars got worse with time while it still retains it's charms.
>by European standards this car is rubbish. Its engine has wasteful, unused capacity that turns fuel into nothing, it couldn’t get from one end of a country lane to the other without running out of brakes and it handles like a newborn donkey.
>There’s more, too. It’s got a gruff engine note, its interior has the panache of an Afghan’s cave and . . . and . . . and I can’t go on. You see, I’m running through all this car’s bad points but I’m afraid my mind is consumed by the bit where I was doing 65mph on the 101, listening to some Eagles on 104.3.
And then by the subsequent memory of grumbling along the waterfront in San Francisco itself, the city setting for Bullitt, the film that etched the Mustang for all time on the petrolhead’s radar.
You see, I kept thinking I’m in a Mustang in San Francisco on a glorious September afternoon. And I liked that a lot. I liked it so much that I became consumed with the notion of maybe taking a small part of the experience home with me.
>Whenever I drive a GTI I’m always full of admiration for its abilities, but when I was driving that Mustang I liked it. And that’s sort of more important.
>Verdict Horrid but very loveable
I can't really argue with anything Clarkson said, but I think time has been very kind to the S197, because all newer cars got worse with time while it still retains it's charms.
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