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[Lazydocker]

At the end of the day Webby, you get what you want/are happy with/can afford

Personally, the Jag experience is the XJ. Brother in Law treated himself to an XJR (supercharged) last year and what a car!

Of course... If I was spending more I'd be looking for a XF 

[Webby the Bear]

thanks for all ta posts..... i think ill have to test drive and see if i like it

have you ever test driven a car that you immediately hate, anyone?

[Lazydocker]

thanks for all ta posts..... i think ill have to test drive and see if i like it

have you ever test driven a car that you immediately hate, anyone?

Yep... Whe I bought my TD Cavalier I test drove a TD Mondeo of the same era (1994 vintage)... I wasn't keen on it but loved the Cavalier, the (then) SWMBO preferred the Mondeo I won because it was my car

When I worked in the garage I drove many different cars on road test... Nothing overly memorable TBH, except for the stretched Granada's the local funeral company used as "Limos"... They went sideways very easily

[albitz]

thanks for all ta posts..... i think ill have to test drive and see if i like it

have you ever test driven a car that you immediately hate, anyone?

Yep - a Sierra, which I then got talked into buying  .......I was so disinterested in cars etc during my thitries that I actually kept it nearly 9 years. .........then I bought the Sennie and remembered what it was like to be in love with your car.

[Martin_1962]

My boss has had 2

First needed a transfer box and was sold when the engine started making funny noises and needed new shells.

Second is a diseasel and had a rear caliper fail recently on handbrake

[bluey]

Reliability-wise the model seems to suffer from electrical maladies, running gear is usually quite reliable.  At speed they're quiet and sure-footed if also a bit underwhelming if I'm honest.  They don't do anything wrong and in fact the front-wheel drive version is for me slightly more entertaining.   But the underpinnings do give themselves away sometimes.

Build quality is decent but if there is one thing that lets them down in my view it's the interior.  The materials are clumsily specced and the finish is not as good as you would expect. 

Others have already suggested that the bigger XJ is a more rewarding buy secondhand and I would agree with that.  An X300 series or a late facelift XJ-S would be a better purchase, mainly because if you buy right they won't lose much money over a couple of years (if any) and they look so damned good on your drive.

[M]

Reliability-wise the model seems to suffer from electrical maladies, running gear is usually quite reliable.  At speed they're quiet and sure-footed if also a bit underwhelming if I'm honest.  They don't do anything wrong and in fact the front-wheel drive version is for me slightly more entertaining.   But the underpinnings do give themselves away sometimes.

Build quality is decent but if there is one thing that lets them down in my view it's the interior.  The materials are clumsily specced and the finish is not as good as you would expect. 

Others have already suggested that the bigger XJ is a more rewarding buy secondhand and I would agree with that.  An X300 series or a late facelift XJ-S would be a better purchase, mainly because if you buy right they won't lose much money over a couple of years (if any) and they look so damned good on your drive.

I think in these days of the £6 gallon and exorbitant insurance costs you would have to be mad or seriously well off to consider buying a used XJ or XJ-S.

I think the X Type is a lovely car, at a bargain price and as its based on the Mondeo, should prove reliable and relatively cheap to maintain.

 

[mrgreen]

At the end of the day Webby, you get what you want/are happy with/can afford

Personally, the Jag experience is the XJ. Brother in Law treated himself to an XJR (supercharged) last year and what a car!

Of course... If I was spending more I'd be looking for a XF 

my father had a 95 xjr and what a fantastic car fast as the wind and reliable to boot in the two years he owned it it only needed tyres and servicing although tyres aren't cheap for them, i've heard the xj8 has a few reluiability issues with gearboxes and motors!

[Gaffers]

At the end of the day Webby, you get what you want/are happy with/can afford

Personally, the Jag experience is the XJ. Brother in Law treated himself to an XJR (supercharged) last year and what a car!

Of course... If I was spending more I'd be looking for a XF 

my father had a 95 xjr and what a fantastic car fast as the wind and reliable to boot in the two years he owned it it only needed tyres and servicing although tyres aren't cheap for them, i've heard the xj8 has a few reluiability issues with gearboxes and motors!

The first car I would buy if I won the lottery is the XFR with a custom exhaust.  Test drove one once and fell in love.  When I had the XF PL deisel that too was a nice car but just not quite fast enough.  The newer 3.0 deisel though apparently has a butt load of hp and even more torque!  SO stay away from the 2.7

Plus the ride is amazing, I did the 4 hour drive from Hannover to Frankfurt in 2.5 hours once and the wife slept in the passenger seat the whole way.  Even when we hit 155 and stayed there for 20 mins she didn't even stir

[TheBoy]

Best to avoid Ford era Jags - all bolted together from various, random parts bins...

[bigegg]

thanks for all ta posts..... i think ill have to test drive and see if i like it

have you ever test driven a car that you immediately hate, anyone?

fiat bravo 1.3 on an r reg - dunno the spec, but it was faecesing awful

I'm not gonna go into details but the 1.1 ka I got as a courtesy car when mrs egg wrote it off (    ) seemed like about 6 steps up.

[bluey]

Best to avoid Ford era Jags - all bolted together from various, random parts bins...

No bad thing either when you consider how well Jaguar has performed in the JD Power survey - the XJ was better than Lexus.

 

[jimac]

I've had 2 X-Types, both 2.5 V6 Autos and both brand new. It's the only time I've ever replaced one car with another of the same type.

I loved them. Very comfortable and certainly powerful enough with something like 195bhp. Handled superbly with 4wd. I didn't have many problems, only an unbalanced drive shaft (which took 4 attempts to fix - they replaced each shaft one at a time) sorted out under warranty (and I got to drive an S-type as a courtesy car each time).

The "tarted up Mondeo" is a bit of a myth really. The cars share very little, and the only thing the engines shared was the block itself. The heads were Jaguar specific, as were all the internals (although whether the same is true of the diesels I don't know).

Jim.

[2woody]

I have an X300 XJR an "M"-plate supercharged 6-cylinder car, it's just about the best vintage, combining rear-drive, cheap cost, great performance, reliability and performance ( I mentioned that twice on purpose ). It owes me £1450.

personally I wouldn't bother with an X-type, just 'cos it's wrong-wheel-drive and that really offends me.

Actually, Woody jr. works for Jaguar - all the insiders hate them, mainly because they were designed in the 'States, with no ( absolutely no ) input from the UK.

[russ0205]

Go for an s type webby great car but avoid the v8 engine the liners self destruct.