RE: Jaguar XJR: Spotted

[j_s14a]

Dr Jezz said:

The original post seems to have slipped into a doppelgänger thread, so I'll repost here (and apologies) ...


Here's my Type R - Jaguar Racing Green supposedly (although it goes by other names) and I love it






Interior's not bad either (hold off all the pipe and slipper comments please!)



Someone was intrigued by the black panels, so here's another shot:

Edited by Dr Jezz on Thursday 22 October 14:26

What a stunning car!

[Dr Jezz]

j_s14a said:

What a stunning car!

Cheers mate (and Matt Bird)- that makes me feel warm inside! For the price these things go for, I can't imagine another way to enjoy 400BHP that wouldn't make me feel a pain of depreciation that would just halt the enjoyment in any other DD that I'd pile the miles on in the way that I have with this.

Really loving the other Jags too - beautiful, keep them coming!

[sam303]

dantournay said:

That's the combo I have in my brooklands green XJS daily driver

Now that, right there, is the absolute nuts. Gorgeous, especially when compared to the rather confused styling of the XJR in the article.

[ess]

HaylingJag said:

green Jags? go on then, heres my offering

Lordy

[anonymous-user]

Is that M6 £104k not including vat? Bugger me.

[Bencolem]

Never thought I'd say this about an M6 GC but that it is stunning. XJR doesn't do it for me at all. Too fussy.

[The Leaper]

OK, as we're into things green, here's a pic of my Jaguar XF 5.0 V8 Portfolio. Not many of these were made for the UK market (it was the standard car for the USA market),and were only available in the UK to special order. Any XF in this colour, emerald fire, is rare...I've seen one in the past 18 months or so.



R

[anonymous-user]

The Leaper said:

OK, as we're into things green, here's a pic of my Jaguar XF 5.0 V8 Portfolio. Not many of these were made for the UK market (it was the standard car for the USA market),and were only available in the UK to special order. Any XF in this colour, emerald fire, is rare...I've seen one in the past 18 months or so.



R

That is a superb spec and a lovely colour. You've managed to offset the damage done to the Jaguar image by, I would say, at least 500 of the sad lease spec single tailpipe 2.2 diesel XFs you see everywhere in wet road grey.

[Wills2]

Wolands Advocate said:

I happened across this at the start of the week and suffered instant major-league want. Dark green and tan is always a great combination - all the better because it's almost never available as standard and therefore has rarity value too. Pity the price tag is ree-diculous.

It is a crazy price, list on that car would have been around 120k but you'd get 25-30k off that if you haggled and ordered from a dealer so I think that Bramley are trying it on...again!

[pj77]

That M6, is it the same car that was for sale at Dick Lovett in June? If yes, a video of this stunning car can be seen here: https://youtu.be/J13fy-qbXQA

[Reavenger]

As we're talking about green British cars, I'll chuck mine in. A slightly brighter colour green.

[Wolands Advocate]

ess said:

HaylingJag said:

green Jags? go on then, heres my offering

Lordy

Yes, agreed. That's lovely.

[AlasdairB10]

Can't let a review of Green cars go by without Alpina Green Metallic. From the Alpina stand at the Frankfurt Motor show:

B7S - with Green tartan. Possibly the only interior better than tan?



B6

[Dr Jezz]

The Leaper said:

OK, as we're into things green, here's a pic of my Jaguar XF 5.0 V8 Portfolio. Not many of these were made for the UK market (it was the standard car for the USA market),and were only available in the UK to special order. Any XF in this colour, emerald fire, is rare...I've seen one in the past 18 months or so.



R

I'm obviously biased, but that colour really suits the XF - lovely

[Wolands Advocate]

Maseratis work in green too:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

And this Evora works well in the combo:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Edited by Wolands Advocate on Friday 23 October 12:44

[The Leaper]

dme123 & Dr Jezz,

Thanks for you interest and kind comments.

Before getting this car I had an S-Type 4.0 V8 SE for over 3 years followed by the much better S-Type 4.2 V8 SE for over 10 years. When changing I did think about the XFR but frankly it was an un-Jaguar like handful as far as I am concerned. My XF 5.0 non R has 385 BHP which is very acceptable and produces a really good all round experience, and meets what I hoped to achieve from a Jaguar. They are quite rare as they were the standard car for the USA market, never advertised in the UK and were available to order only here. I think there's maybe 60-70 in the UK. My car was originally ordered for an executive at Jaguar so as well as being a Portfolio is has many other extras eg sun roof. In fact, in the service book it is described as a Portfolio Studio, whatever that means.

R.

[thelawnet1]

Wow, that M6 has some depreciating to do!!!

£105k for a newish BMW? Sheer insanity.

[thelawnet1]

This is more like it:


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

[RoverP6B]

The X351 has really grown on me. I'd have a Supersports in that really dark red, though...

[SteveGrosvenor]

The Leaper said:

OK, as we're into things green, here's a pic of my Jaguar XF 5.0 V8 Portfolio. Not many of these were made for the UK market (it was the standard car for the USA market),and were only available in the UK to special order. Any XF in this colour, emerald fire, is rare...I've seen one in the past 18 months or so.



R

Nice car. I also have a N/A 5.0 V8 XF, in Premium Luxury spec. Mines in black though. (See previous Carpool entry). Amazing cars. Knew they were rare (circa 140 in total I believe) but wasn't aware of them being special order though until now.

Edited by SteveGrosvenor on Friday 23 October 23:59