Reading Topic: Jaguar 3.0L vs Mazda 3.0L
mmarfan - the part about it doesn't make any sense that the Mazda should make any more power over the Jag is not entirely true. Consider that the Licoln LS V-6 makes 232 hp 5 more than the x-tpye yet the Jag costs more, is more prestegious yet offers less from the perspective of performance. It really depends where the OEM places the priority. Mazda did a far more better job of taking a humble duratec engine and breathing a soul into the vehicle for the driving enthusiast and offers better performance than the x-type. Did I mention that Mazda did this for less money (roughly $10K less). Mazda is focused and appears to have found their way back to their nieche. Jaguar is stilll floundering around trying to determine what they are going to be while in the meantime they keep on turning out compromised products that cannot stand on their own two feet with their competion. Even Volvo produces much more gratifying performance vehicles than Jaguar for less money. The S60R base MSRP starts at $36K and offers AWD, 300hp, 6-speed manual, and unparalled levels of safety. A Jag x-type for more money can't event touch it.