jeeeez no jag on the list!!! This is from the days when jag was king and outselling BMW 3 to 1 and Mercs were clumsy dogs. The jag had inboard rear brakes to achieve "magic carpet" ride and a great i6.
Double six for me, too, but if I was strapped for cash then the P6 V8 sounds nice, the Granny was too common - used by them guys in the Professionals ffs!
BTW it'd be either 8 tracks or tapes in the 70s - I had an early tape player in my Mini in '76, pretty rubbish it was, too!
I'm not voting until the Jag is included. You just can't have a thread titled "best 1970's big "executive" car .... and then wantonly leave out the best 1970s big executive car.
I hear you, all of you, on the DS. It obviously has quite a following and yes, it was way ahead of its time .... but I just can't see the aesthetic appeal. There are many pretty things to have come from France; Sophie Marceau for instance. But the Citroen DS is not one of them....
...until someone chopped the roof off. Now that had the Sophie factor in spades. So I guess I'm saying; nice car, shame about the roof.
But no need to debate once the S3 Daimler double-six is in the poll. Come on MattW, give us what's really needed here.....
DS was on the way out in 74 ... CX was just becoming available
still like the DS to this day .... 70s jags were not that well screwed together
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Just to be grumpy, id have to insist on the i6 Jag, that is perfectly balanced, no need for a v12 and all that complication (and longitudinal crankshaft oscillation).
CX was the big news at Citroen then. DS was getting a bit long in the tooth by then, beautiful though they were. I which case, I'd go for a CX Pallas if they were available from the start. Imagine, 2008 available in 1974. They should make a TV series along those lines.
Well we're safe for now. Thank goodness we're in a bowling alley.
Must be cheaper than acquiring a load of Genesis, ELP, Yes, etc 8 tracks or vinyl! 
I should have included the Jag XJ12/Daimler Double Six! 
