Jaguar S Type R - Proper Owners Review
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Hello All,
After recently battling a coolant issue on my 2007 S Type R I set upon looking across the internet for owners with similar issues. Having spent several hours clicking about there was a trend to what I was reading, people who were genuine or people who assumed things and spouted garbage. As such I wanted to send out a proper review of the car I've lived with for 2.5 years and 7k miles.
To start off, the car is absolutely amazing. Having owned several performance cars (there's also a Cayenne in the garage at the moment) this is by far and away the best in every sense. The comfort and drive is second to none, as is the build quality - but most of all the 400bhp is stunning. Many cars these days deliver this sort of number, but from the ones I've been in they don't do it in such a dramatic way. The acceleration is nothing short of brutal. I don't 'thrash' my cars but in the time I've owned it little to nothing has every outpaced it and when certain people have tried it's only ended one way.
In terms of running costs, regardless of the miles you do or the way you drive the fuel consumption isn't great, but then again you shouldn't expect it to be considering it's a 4.2 supercharged V8. With a mixture of city and motorway driving with varying levels of enthusiasm I average 17.9. People who state is does 25+ are either nuns or telling porkies.
My car is currently sitting on 95k miles, I bought it at 88k and in that time aside from 2 full services and a set of tyres the only issue I've had was the valley pipe. I got a nice bill for the pleasure but again, for the money the car costs and pleasure it gives it should be considered peanuts. If this type of maintenance is a problem I wouldn't go down the R route.
My car is in Emerald Fire Green and I've had the front and one entire side resprayed to get rid of any imperfections and when it's polished and sun shines it's impossible to think of anything better sub £25k. The next thing will be a full refurb of the alloys to satisfy my obsession but that can wait until the New Year.
I've put some pics below, would be great to get the thoughts of similar R owners.
After recently battling a coolant issue on my 2007 S Type R I set upon looking across the internet for owners with similar issues. Having spent several hours clicking about there was a trend to what I was reading, people who were genuine or people who assumed things and spouted garbage. As such I wanted to send out a proper review of the car I've lived with for 2.5 years and 7k miles.
To start off, the car is absolutely amazing. Having owned several performance cars (there's also a Cayenne in the garage at the moment) this is by far and away the best in every sense. The comfort and drive is second to none, as is the build quality - but most of all the 400bhp is stunning. Many cars these days deliver this sort of number, but from the ones I've been in they don't do it in such a dramatic way. The acceleration is nothing short of brutal. I don't 'thrash' my cars but in the time I've owned it little to nothing has every outpaced it and when certain people have tried it's only ended one way.
In terms of running costs, regardless of the miles you do or the way you drive the fuel consumption isn't great, but then again you shouldn't expect it to be considering it's a 4.2 supercharged V8. With a mixture of city and motorway driving with varying levels of enthusiasm I average 17.9. People who state is does 25+ are either nuns or telling porkies.
My car is currently sitting on 95k miles, I bought it at 88k and in that time aside from 2 full services and a set of tyres the only issue I've had was the valley pipe. I got a nice bill for the pleasure but again, for the money the car costs and pleasure it gives it should be considered peanuts. If this type of maintenance is a problem I wouldn't go down the R route.
My car is in Emerald Fire Green and I've had the front and one entire side resprayed to get rid of any imperfections and when it's polished and sun shines it's impossible to think of anything better sub £25k. The next thing will be a full refurb of the alloys to satisfy my obsession but that can wait until the New Year.
I've put some pics below, would be great to get the thoughts of similar R owners.
I'd agree on the colour, it makes the whole package in my opinion a proper jag - not that I'm biased.
As for the valley, it went to my local motorsport specialist who looks after ferarri's, maserati's etc and has always maintained my cars. I used genuine jag parts and the total bill was just shy of £400. In total it took a few days but I had some other coolant pipes replaced whilst everything was out.
As for the valley, it went to my local motorsport specialist who looks after ferarri's, maserati's etc and has always maintained my cars. I used genuine jag parts and the total bill was just shy of £400. In total it took a few days but I had some other coolant pipes replaced whilst everything was out.
Great to see the thread still going.
Sold my R 2 years ago, and since have owned an E63 AMG (MY2014) and am currently in an Aston Martin Rapide. Pound for pound the R is the best car I've owned. Simple engineering with more than enough power to surprise people. A definite future classic in the making.
Sold my R 2 years ago, and since have owned an E63 AMG (MY2014) and am currently in an Aston Martin Rapide. Pound for pound the R is the best car I've owned. Simple engineering with more than enough power to surprise people. A definite future classic in the making.
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