Have to disagree there...
the S3 motor sounds like 2 sewing machines fighting over a bent needle...
The "S3 motor" is the HE V12, not the XK straight six. And note further that I specifically referenced the short-stroke (3.8L) version, not the later 4.2L version. Though the injected 4.2L XK in Dad's old XJ6 Series-3 Vanden Plas was a great-sounding luxury car motor: basically inaudible until you stepped on it, whereupon it turned into an angry freight train. (Pity that it also ate up fuel at a rate of 11-14 mpg per the trip computer.)
The E-Type (people who know Jaguar don't say or write "XK-E") Series-3 was, unfortunately, the ill-wrought, bulbous bridge between interesting Jaguar coupes and Sir William Lyons' one big misfire, his XJ-S, a.k.a. the "British Camaro."
Plus most Americans wouldnt fit in the spider to save our lives, Im 6'5" 280ish {40" waist} and wouldnt even try, there would be broken console and dash parts everywhere...
You're an extreme outlier at 6'5", not one of "most Americans." Most Americans are fat but short. The average American male is actually about the same height as the average Japanese male today. And way shorter than average males in countries with modern health-care systems such as the Netherlands or Germany. I find that at hair under 6'2" I can easily see over the heads of a gathering of Americans, but in Antwerp I get lost in small crowds.
Then again, motor sound isn't everything. The
greatest car ever made has a motor that sounds like an asthmatic tractor.
