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" They&amp;#039;ve got guns, and good thing, because most of today&amp;#039;s TV cops drive cars that aren&amp;#039;t gonna stop anybody. Chunky Sipowicz on NYPD Blue drives a bloated Chevy Caprice; Homicide&amp;#039;sDetective Munch is even less fortunate-he has to cram into a Cavalier. But then there&amp;#039;s Inspector Morse, the otherwise pudgy and unflashy Mystery! detective who chases down perps along quaint Oxfordshire lanes in his early-sixties red-and-black Jaguar Mark II. His car inspires so much confidence, he doesn&amp;#039;t even carry a gun.  Absurd to think of a cop in a Jag? Maybe if he looks like Dennis Franz. But forty years ago, real British officers used the stately yet fast Mark II to patrol Britain&amp;#039;s then-new high-speed motorways. Now the Mark is back in showrooms, in civilian clothes, but it is unmistakably the child of the constable&amp;#039;s sedan. It has the face-oval grille, noble and upright as a crusader&amp;#039;s shield; double sets of round headlights bunched close to it; and a deeply creased, long hood line-and the arched body that gave the old Mark character. To confuse matters, though, the new Mark will be called the S-type; Ford, Jaguar&amp;#039;s owner, will be building Lincolns on this platform and didn&amp;#039;t want Americans to mistake the new Jag for one. But forget the nomenclature. The new Jag will be successful because it carries on the tradition of the Mark without looking self-consciously retro. Yes, there&amp;#039;s the long, curved cut down its body, an echo of the attenuated line of the original, but there&amp;#039;s also a more athletic stance. Add to that an interior wrapped in leather and maple veneer, with optional voice-activated climate control, cell phone, and other systems, and you have a new paradigm for techno luxe.  The single snag: If you choose the standard V-6, the electronically controlled trans makes the car feel sluggish, while the traction control further inhibits playful driving. But then, when you order up Inspector Morse-like politeness, can you honestly complain when you don&amp;#039;t get Dirty Harry&amp;#039;s forearm shiver? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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