Hib, you driven either of those? I've never thought of the EType as being a good handler. I used to drive my bosses XJS years ago and it was fucking rubbish.
Americans just have a different impression of what makes a good car. I'm basing this opinion entirely on an advert for Cadilac that I saw on the telly over there. It was basically a film of two similar cars being driven at moderate speeds and they were wobbling about like mad. At the end, both cars were brought to a halt next to one another and they actually continued to wobble for about a second - several oscillations. Of course, the cars' dampers must have been doctored to behave like this, and they would have been undrivable. Or maybe they edited the film in some way to make the car more bouncy.
This isn't it, but look how they've exaggerated the body roll as these cars turn. European car manufacturers would show the cars completely flat through the tightest corners, Americans make a feature of the fact that they don't.
I don't know what any of this means, probably that Yerps buy cars because of the way they drive, how much fuel they use and how reliable they are and Yankie Doodles just buy then cos they're purdy and wobble a bit.
Most of them have fat arses too.
