You Know You Want This Beautiful Jaguar XJ220 with PistonHeads
Used Jaguar XJ220 cars for sale
If you’re a fan of classic Jags,
the name XJ220 should have you excited. The iconic 90s supercar styling
and addicting twin-turbo V6 made the XJ a classic from the moment it
rolled off the factory floor. And today, it’s turning into collectors
item.
While
most of us will never have the cash to own one of these stunning
machines, there is a pristine XJ220 coming up for auction. In case
there’s a One Percent of you out there that might be interested.
It
will be a part of Bonham’s Zoute Sale on October 9th. The car in
question is number 33 of 280 made. It has only 1,080 kilometers (671
miles) on the odometer from new, and is fully documented as a pristine
original.
Under
the hood, the twin-turbo 3.5-liter Cosworth V6 remains intact. The
exterior wears a beautiful Burgundy paint scheme, while the interior
comes coated in beige leather and plenty of 90s-era black plastic
finishes.
All
in all, the XJ220 remains a classic, and this example is no different.
If you’re lucky enough to afford such a machine, head over to the
Bonham’s Zoute Sale on October 9th, where you’ll likely be paying
somewhere in the neighborhood of $310,000 – $470,000.
The Fast and the Furious What the critics said in 2001
If Paul Walker were alive now, today would be his 42nd birthday.A huge part of the late, slick, blue-eyed actor’s legacy is the “Fast and the Furious” franchise.The latest installment, “Furious 7,” was hugely successful at the box office (it’s the third-highest grossing movie of 2015 so far) and was also quite a winner with the critics (it has 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes).It’s become a hugely successful franchise, in large part thanks to the screen presence of the Walker-Vin Diesel duo, but it wasn’t so clear the series would become a Hollywood winner back in 2001, when the first film was released. 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious” wasn’t a heist movie, as the series has become. It was a street-racing thriller. And it didn’t have the dramatic heft critics would come to appreciate in the series. The thrills worked for some critics, and not so much for others. The characters were criticized for being “paper-thin,” but some critics still recognized how appealing actors like Walker and Diesel were onscreen.The franchise has come a long way. Let’s look back on that 2001 movie “The Fast and the Furious” as we commemorate Walker’s birthday. (By the way, Ludacris’s birthday was yesterday. We hope the two co-stars had an epic dual birthday party at some point.)Here’s what the critics said about “The Fast and the Furious” in 2001:Variety:
“A gritty and gratifying cheap thrill, Rob Cohen’s high-octane hot-car meller is a true rarity these days, a really good exploitationer, the sort of thing that would rule at drive-ins if they still existed.”Entertainment Weekly:
“‘The Fast and the Furious’ works hard to be exciting, but the movie scarcely lives up to its title. It could have used a bit of a fuel injection itself.”Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
“By all the standards by which movies are usually judged, it’s pretty dreadful. But it at least has the honesty and charm of a straightforward exploitation movie, and it definitely lives up to its title.”Chicago Reader:
“While few of the paper-thin characters register long enough to make much of an impression, Diesel carries the movie with his unsettling mix of Zen-like tranquillity and barely controlled rage.”Empire Magazine:
“In a cheerfully cheesy was, this is probably the most fun to be had at the multiplex so far this year. Even a slightly dull bit in the middle involving some Oriental gangsters can't slam the brakes on the fun.”Cincinnati Enquirer:
“Melodramatic, preposterous, excessive — this movie is all that. Yet it is also magnetically appealing.”BBC:
“There's nothing daring or high concept about this shamelessly derivative slice of teenage schlock. What it does offer is a visceral, high-octane, Formula One of a flick that puts the pedal to the metal in the opening minutes and does not take the foot off the accelerator until the end credits.”Ain’t It Cool News:
“‘The Fast and the Furious’ has scary speed in it. Not just told with the camera, but in a soundtrack — both Rock style and sound effects wise that literally shakes the hairs on your balls and tugs on your sternum.”San Francisco Chronicle:
“It’s a good movie, even though it’s exactly the kind of movie that’s usually awful: youth-oriented, straining to be contemporary, straining to be mythic, with no faith in an audience’s capacity to stay awake without being jolted. But ‘The Fast and the Furious’ has something special about it. It’s a formula movie, to be sure, but it’s Formula One.”
The Newest Volvo SUV Drives Itself To Avoid Fender Benders
The autonomous cars are coming. Google’s perfecting its robo-egg,
Cadillac’s working on something called Super Cruise and Elon Musk
promises that your Tesla will soon fetch itself from the parking garage
and come pick you up. Volvo, for its part, has a system that’ll handle
stop-and-go traffic, the dreary highway crawl that so many of us face
every day. It’s called Pilot Assist, and it’s not some vaporware
assigned to an indeterminate future debut. It’s here now, in
dealerships, in the 2016 XC90. And it’s awesome.
Here’s
how Pilot Assist works: In highway traffic that’s grinding along at
less that 30 mph, the XC90 uses radar to lock on the car in front of
you. Meanwhile, a high-mounted camera reads the lane markings to ensure
you stay in your lane. The car takes over steering, throttle and brakes,
occasionally chiming an alarm if it detects that you’ve totally checked
out and taken both hands off the wheel for more than 15 seconds. The
system’s not finicky, not indecisive—it just works. Outside the car,
nobody else would suspect that your Volvo is driving itself. That is,
until traffic starts running 35 mph and you top out at 30. Then you lose
your lead car and it’s back to the grind.
It’s
certainly sexier to have a car drive itself at full-fledged highway
speeds, or go park sans driver, but the unassuming Volvo system, buried
in a dash menu next to the cruise control, is a huge deal. I headed into
rush hour in Raleigh, NC (don’t laugh, denizens of New York, Los
Angeles and DC) and even the Triangle’s modest gridlock produced two
rear-end collisions that morning. This is the kind of traffic that’s so
boring, so stultifying, that it lures you into complacency. Hey, I’m
only doing 20 mph, let me see what else is on the radio—BANG! Time to
open the glove box and find your insurance papers.
I’m
not saying that a low-speed accident could never happen in the XC90,
but radar has a lot better attention span than you do. If I had to
commute in highway traffic (or if I lived in a perpetually
traffic-snarled metropolis), Pilot Assist alone would vault the XC90 to
the top of my shopping list.
Volvo
being Volvo, it frames Pilot Assist as a safety feature, part of a
system called IntelliSafe. And that it is, but it’s also just cool, a
dash of utopian sci-fi lurking within your Swedish family hauler. I
still love driving, but now and then I don’t mind a little help. Bentley Bentayga SUV Revealed: A 600-HP Glamorous Off-Road
If
the all-new Toyota Prius represents the epitome of modern, affordable,
fuel-efficient driving, than the Bentley Bentayga — revealed in full
ahead of next week’s Frankfurt motor show — stands as its opposite.
Designed
to grow Bentley’s business into new reserves of wealth, the Bentayga
comes off as nothing more than the world’s most luxurious, over-the-top
production SUV, from its 600-hp twin-turbo W-12 engine to the optional
Hamper Set, which includes not just a refrigerator but cutlery, china
and crystal glasses for putting the glamour back in tailgating. (If
“glam-gating” isn’t a word, the Bentayga may try to coin it.)
