It's OK! This ain't the first group of anoraks I've ever been involved in…
I am also on an online form for Jaguars (the cars, NOT the guitars), a car with which I have much experience, and those people can argue about angels dancing on the heads of combustion chambers all day long!
I love Jaguar. My momma had a '70 XKE roadster v12 4spd. She let me drive it once, to go to dinner in San Francisco for her birthday, think I was about 25 or 26.
Beautiful freeway cutting up the peninsula for about 30 miles, through the hills, nice long sweepers, great visibility far ahead, great views... I was at 90 on the freeway in 3rd (getting up to cruising speed after coming down the ramp politely but briskly) and the car was rock solid and still barely turning 3800rpm IIRC, but she reigned me in.
75mph limit after that, loafing in 4th...ah but the road feel!!!.
It was to be mine but she had to sacrifice the car during a battle with cancer. So it goes.
Also had a love affair with first-gen RX-7's, had 5 of 'em over the course of 15 years or so, with 2 and even 3 at once for some of that time.
When I got my D25 I thought it was like a guitar equivalent of the RX, with the arched back being analogous to the rotary engine.
Also affordable, reliable, economical and fun to drive. Not to mention that
styling.
And that D25 led to 2 other Guilds.
I salute your good taste sir and again, welcome aboard!