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edo
12,562 posts
134 months
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kieronj
1,148 posts
115 months
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Gallen said: here's my old one... http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/geri_allen/...http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/geri_allen/...Know what you mean about the "age" image... You're either considered too young for an "old mans car", and as a result you look like a rat with a gold tooth... I'm 32 but didnt care - I liked the car so I suited myself! You felt like you were driving a Bentley. Only thing I would change would be better fuel consumption... Realistically you'll get around 18-22 friom the 3.2 XJ... even on a run I only managed 23 at best, regardless of what anyone says. My father's XJS V12 seems better on fuel! Now that is very nice indeed! If only I didn't have a large commute.
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hora
16,571 posts
80 months
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Sorry, wouldnt touch it with a barge-pole. (For me) its got that John-Player Special/mutton sideburns and big moustache image. An Uncle and an Aunt both went through alot of Jags in the 80's and my Uncle had those facial attributes!  Seriously though, unless its an early era-Jag I wouldnt go near them. Its new-money made good and the later Mondeos Jags (even though they arent Mondeos I still perceive them as Mondeos.... RangeRover/Landrovers will always be Rovers in my eyes too.  Die Spawn of British Leyland die. sorry if I offend anyone but I'd rather have a 5 or 7series from that era any day of the week) 
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XJR40
2,642 posts
82 months
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I love the XJ40, I've two at the moment. A well sorted one is a fantastic car, you have to know what your looking at when you buy one though, and be prepared to get your hands dirty!
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Shropshiremike
8,101 posts
72 months
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Gallen said: Only thing I would change would be better fuel consumption... Realistically you'll get around 18-22 friom the 3.2 XJ... even on a run I only managed 23 at best, regardless of what anyone says. The F-reg manual 3.6 one in the picture I posted earlier did almost bang on 30mpg on the trip from Calais to Monaco. That was all autoroutes with the cruise set to 130km/h, aircon on all the time and I think the trip computer reckoned 32mpg. There were a couple of performance comparisons on the gently rolling topography 2/3 of the way down through France, one against a 309 GTi-16, but apart from that it wasn't a bad way to get 4 people in comfort down to the South of France in half a day
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hora
16,571 posts
80 months
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Has a Lexus been the shed of the week? Must have been by now?
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G_T
7,402 posts
59 months
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hora said: Has a Lexus been the shed of the week? Must have been by now? hora, at first I was sympathetic for your preference for BMW over Jag. I thought that perhaps you were dropped on your head as a child. Or that maybe you had absolutely no sense of style or familiarity with the concept of cool. "That poor man", I kept thinking to myself, "I bet he wears an anorak, with thick framed lenses and enjoys puzzles", but now you have mentioned "the Toyota Soarer", quite possibly the tackiest "luxo-barge" ever built and I think you should be shot for even mentioning it in the same thread as the XJ40. Just... Please... Stop...
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Garlick
38,251 posts
109 months
PH Manager Bloke
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Matt_
114 posts
58 months
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My Grandpa had a couple of XJs.
The last one he had was a really dark purple with cream interior. Used to think it was a right beast when I was a lad.
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pSyCoSiS
1,583 posts
74 months
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grahamw48 said: I had my first XJ at 26 and my second at 27....but that was in the 70s when all XJs were COOL.  ...and VERY expensive to run when doing 700 miles a week at 15mpg.  XJs are still very cool my friend !
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pSyCoSiS
1,583 posts
74 months
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XJs are still lovely, tasty motors with a charm of old skool british gangster, thug appeal !
I love them!
Superb presence, class, refinement, comfort, and surprisingly good pace.
IMHO, the X300/X308 are a much better looker, with the quad-lamps. The mid-80s (series 2 or 3?) are also very nice, especially in V12 guise!
The XJ40 do have a nice minesterial look to them.
The old girls do love a drink, but it's worth it!
As someone said on here earlier, you can easily pick up some early X300 Sports / Sovereigns / Executives for less than a grand. And these cars are very reliable too - my X300 3.2 Sport never missed a beat.
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madtriumphman
664 posts
53 months
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I got offered a 4.2 XJS on an F plate with only 54K from new and it was mint. The guy wanted to do a straight swap for my Dolomite 1500.....I was soooo tempted, but as I'm just 36 I too felt that I wasn't old enough to drive it..!
Wish I had got it now, would have made a great long distance cruiser even if the MPG would have bankrupted Me!!!
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hora
16,571 posts
80 months
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G_T said: hora said: Has a Lexus been the shed of the week? Must have been by now? hora, at first I was sympathetic for your preference for BMW over Jag. I thought that perhaps you were dropped on your head as a child. Or that maybe you had absolutely no sense of style or familiarity with the concept of cool. "That poor man", I kept thinking to myself, "I bet he wears an anorak, with thick framed lenses and enjoys puzzles", but now you have mentioned "the Toyota Soarer", quite possibly the tackiest "luxo-barge" ever built and I think you should be shot for even mentioning it in the same thread as the XJ40. Just... Please... Stop... Alan Partridge?......err not for me. For the oldies on here? (Your not beleiving me are you?)..
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locodude
487 posts
64 months
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This is my 4.0 sport and I love it, more economical than the 3.2 as well believe it or not! 
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Ecurie Ecosse
3,919 posts
87 months
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locodude said: This is my 4.0 sport and I love it, more economical than the 3.2 as well believe it or not! I had an X300 XJ Sport about 10 years ago when I was in my early 20s. They are very very cool indeed, irrespective of your age. Indeed, I'm quite fancying an X300 XJR soon. So cheap, amd I prefer the looks to the X308. Saying that, I do like the XJ40 too. Great cars, and my friends Dad regularly got 140mph on the clock of his manual 3.6, all in silky smooth comfort. My other friends Dad used to have Soverigns as company cats. He did 50k mile a year with no problems - he kept them for 3 years.
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Lancs Jag Boy
385 posts
55 months
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but I'd rather have a 5 or 7series from that era any day of the week) [/quote] Oh dear, this must be a tradesman....of course you would prefer a BMW, it's called style, you simply would'nt understand old boy.
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hora
16,571 posts
80 months
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Or an E30...or w123 mercedes
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G_T
7,402 posts
59 months
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hora said: G_T said: hora said: Has a Lexus been the shed of the week? Must have been by now? hora, at first I was sympathetic for your preference for BMW over Jag. I thought that perhaps you were dropped on your head as a child. Or that maybe you had absolutely no sense of style or familiarity with the concept of cool. "That poor man", I kept thinking to myself, "I bet he wears an anorak, with thick framed lenses and enjoys puzzles", but now you have mentioned "the Toyota Soarer", quite possibly the tackiest "luxo-barge" ever built and I think you should be shot for even mentioning it in the same thread as the XJ40. Just... Please... Stop... Alan Partridge?......err not for me. For the oldies on here? (Your not beleiving me are you?).. Lex-i? I have an x308 XJR and I'm not old... Well not physically anyway. I'd sooner have one than the obligatory fast-hatch that most people in their early 20's drive. Come on man. Is there nothing about that classic British styling and ridiculous extravagance that doesn't stir up a shred of patriotism in you? So much more character than any piece of German/Jap engineering of the same market.
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Gallen
1,776 posts
124 months
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hora said: Or an E30...or w123 mercedes ...without me coming accross as a nob  I must say that I would find it very hard to believe that you have ever actually driven a Jag!?
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hora
16,571 posts
80 months
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Gallen said: hora said: Or an E30...or w123 mercedes ...without me coming accross as a nob I must say that I would find it very hard to believe that you have ever actually driven a Jag!? Never driven one. Hands up on that one.
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