viper2ko - I think the question should be what's the target market ie who will buy the car - the xf is a luxury item (a want not a need), but a relatively affordable luxury and two seat, hence it's likely to be either singles with the disposable income, couples without kids, couples who have got shot of the kids.

I have no idea how many 16 year olds have cars like that in the US. In Europe 17 is the minimum age for a license, insurance for a 17 year old on a sports car will run to $3,000 per year easy. As insurance costs increase all sports cars become more suited to the "older" or "more experienced" driver - just the way the numbers work.

I was driving at 16 (outside the UK) and had good fun in a lot of cheap old cars, trucks and vans that I maintained, repaired and broke again. A couple would break 100 mph - and 0-60 in 12 seconds. Perhaps you are much more mature than any 16 year old with an interest in cars that I have ever met and the XF is the right car for you. I can get a cold shiver down my back even now when I think how I risked my life at various times taking risks I thought nothing of, as an student some 15 years ago. Although never continually silly, at a guess I would say I was 21 when I started really understanding risks.

The XF has a classic type styling which with it's rarity seems to attract a mixed range of owners, the Z is more contemporary.

I don't want to get into who bought your car etc, that will probably just make me jealous, but unless I have bought something like a car myself with money I earned it wasn't really mine, when I first started driving I preferred drive my own $400 car to anything else owned by the family - basically it felt mine.

Take care anyway, none of the above is meant to be critical of you or your driving - I don't know anything about either.

Malcolm