Jaguar XJ - Fantastic value?

[TopGear7]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3760044.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3534951.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3759368.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3406187.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3751875.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3656242.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3656239.htm


These are just a handful - there's lots more. There's also numerous 5.0 V8s for around the same price.

Less than two years old, under 15k miles and obviously fully loaded being XJ's, all for 30 - 40k.

Perhaps a silly question, but why so cheap? Why doesn't the XJ hold value?

I also don't see many at all around the the roads. Relatively in comparison to S-Classes and 7 Series' the XJ is quite a rare sight. Despite looking great from the outside (subjective), and also having a luxurious interior - I can't comment on the actual drive.

Edited by TopGear7 on Friday 23 March 15:30

[MissChief]

Interesting PoV that £40k is 'value'. Oh how the other half live!

[TX1]

Hardly a bargain, would have expected them to depreciate more by now.

[CurvaParabolica]

MissChief said:

Interesting PoV that £40k is 'value'. Oh how the other half live!

Considering they were probably north of £65k two years ago they do appear GVFM, IMO. They are still my car of the moment (despite there being no chance in hell of being able to afford one anytime soon). I just think this is the current market for any large-engined barge, the only reason it is more surprising for the XJ is probably becuase it is the newest of it's class.

[TTwiggy]

Proper value is to be found in the X350 model.

Jags have always suffered horrific depreciation, despite often topping reliability/satisfaction surveys, it's an odd thing. I really thought that these new models would arrest the trend, but it appears not. Good news for the second-hand buyer of course.

[TopGear7]

MissChief said:

Interesting PoV that £40k is 'value'. Oh how the other half live!

It's all relative though. If a Buggati Veryon popped up on the market for 200k it would be fantastic value. Despite 200k being a vast sum of money.

I'm hardly posting up a bottle of wine for 40k and saying 'wow, such cracking value'

These cars costs roughly 65k a year or so ago and have hardly been driven and are now sitting at around 30k. I reckon that's pretty good value for money.

[FloppyRaccoon]

My father is looking at them as well, just a bit put off by how much they dropped in the first 2 years or so. Seems as if they've stabilised for the past 6 months though. Cheapest ones are something like £32-33k if I remember right.

[Piersman2]

This probably explains partly why my local dealer has been sending me letters for the last few weeks asking me to contact them to see if they can sell me an XJ at cost. They must be trying to shift a back stock.

WOuldn't mind one of the new style supersports to replace my XJR, but I'm guessing they are still a LOT of money!

[MissChief]

TopGear7 said:

It's all relative though. If a Buggati Veryon popped up on the market for 200k it would be fantastic value. Despite 200k being a vast sum of money.

I'm hardly posting up a bottle of wine for 40k and saying 'wow, such cracking value'

These cars costs roughly 65k a year or so ago and have hardly been driven and are now sitting at around 30k. I reckon that's pretty good value for money.

True I guess, and certainly makes anyone that bought one new weep a little inside. Not sure I'd have one though, an XF seems like a more interesting drive to me if it had to be a *Clarkson voice* Jaaaag.

[PurpleMoonlight]

They are ugly, people don't want to buy them .....

[okie592]

cause people with no imagination buy the audi A8

[PaperCut]

Could be down to the die-hard Jag fans not buying them as they're not designed to be parked outside twee chocolate-box, thatched-roofed cottages in 1957?

+ big engine these days = low resale values

+ any Jaguar regardless of model = chronic depreciation

HTH?

Oh, and to put it in perspective you can now get an XF for as little as £10k, if you search hard enough!

[SWoll]

okie592 said:

cause people with no imagination buy the audi A8

Nope, they buy the S-Class.

[PaperCut]

SWoll said:

okie592 said:

cause people with no imagination buy the audi A8

Nope, they buy the S-Class.

Nope, they buy anything German and completley forget about our 'home grown' luxury cars...

[D1bram]

Beautiful cars IMO, only thing I note though is that rear legroom looks very cramped for a car of that class. Not sat in one, just going from pictures in those ads.

[FloppyRaccoon]

D1bram said:

Beautiful cars IMO, only thing I note though is that rear legroom looks very cramped for a car of that class. Not sat in one, just going from pictures in those ads.

You need the XJL then!

[PaperCut]

Just remembered the Prime Minister frequently gets ushered about in one - and some other non-entity MPs - perhaps that's what is wiping the value off!

[kambites]

Looks like much the same rate of depreciation as the competition to me...

http://pistonheads.com/sales/2667813.htm
http://pistonheads.com/sales/3658676.htm
http://pistonheads.com/sales/3758508.htm

[mattcov]

Nice cars, but that lot will be valued at half what they are now in 2 years time, and that's when they'll be a very good buy.

[CambsBill]

D1bram said:

Beautiful cars IMO, only thing I note though is that rear legroom looks very cramped for a car of that class. Not sat in one, just going from pictures in those ads.

My lad's 6'5" now and still fits in the back of mine so not too bad.

Thinking back, when I bought my X350 I paid around half of list price at less than a year old , so this is a huge improvement. Mind you, I did buy the X350 at the height (depths) of the financial crisis so buyers were probably a bit thin on the ground at the time.