David A. Fox wrote
>Please don't take this as anything resembling 'Flame' but you state that
>"Jag straight 6 and V12 engines were around long before Ford came on the
>scene". Then in the very next sentence "The V12 came out in '72". Did I
>miss something or was Ford the company which poineered the V8 and through
>production engineering breakthroughs made the automobile affordable to the
>general public?
>
>BS&CW,
>DAFox
Rob may mean "On the scene" in the sense of Ford control of Jaguar. See
below quote: (Rob wrote)
>Jaguar
>regained independence in '85 just before William Lyons died and Ford took
>over in '89.
Cheers,
-Marc T.
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