"I don't like foreigners at the best of times, but whenever I hear even so much as a snatch of Elgar, the mild dislike becomes a deal more pronounced. And believe you me, the best place to be at such a time is behind the pencil-thin wheel of a Jaguar.
If you sort of half close your eyes, you can imagine that deeply sculptured bonnet is the prow of the HMS Victory, the nose of a Spitfire, the protruding snub of a Challenger tank.
If I find myself listening to Elgar while driving along, in, say, a Mercedes, I have to get out and sit on the grass verge until it's finished. When you're in a Mercedes, you can only listen to Strauss or Wagner or something that makes you want to bludgeon your way around the Soviet Union, smashing it into small pieces.
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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...
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