This weeks autocar carries the comment (on page 51 in a feature about the latest Jaguar) that '' The Jowett Javelin of 1947 was a disaster in every sense''
Should we shoot the editor or attempt to rehabilitate him!
george
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May be you take him too seriously, born in 1972 he is very unlikely to have first hand experience of a Javelin in 1947 or even later , probably just quoting other people . There must be some valid criticism of our favourite classic , just as I used to get the Autocar when it was a good magazine ! Bob
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I presume like many of todays journalists he was talking through his exhaust pipe!
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Re: autocar magazine
What was perhaps left unsaid was the successes of later years?
The devil is in the detail!