Rule No. 2.(Column)(Column)

Byline: Steve Thompson Sandra had never heard of carmaking's Rule No. 2, but her concern about buying a new Jaguar was the finest example of the rule's reason for being I had ever run into by 1992. That was when Sandra closeted me at a family Christmas party and asked if it were finally okay to buy a Jaguar. She had heard the cars were better in quality control, but she was still worried about finding herself stranded out on the road. As we talked, it became clear she was also worried about seeming clueless to her friends for buying a car that the smart money considered wrong. ...