What is good value in the luxobarge market these days?
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I am looking for a big, wafty RWD saloon with a V8 and lots of expensive toys that will almost certainly break. I haven't been in the market for one since before Covid and the prices have doubled/tripled in some cases.....so where is the value? I am thinking along the lines of LS460s, 7 series, E Class etc...Honda Legend perhaps?
fflump said:
About £15k gets a continental flying spur
What could possibly go wrong
I’d be looking at a mk5 quattroporte personally
Or just get the Lexus 460 and whack some Rolls Royce wheels on it like this guy. Best of both What could possibly go wrong
I’d be looking at a mk5 quattroporte personally
...https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202307239...
Edited by YorksLS18 on Saturday 12th August 09:34
Anything with a Jaguar badge.
Under £10k the XF
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£10-15k the XJ
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Under £10k the XF
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£10-15k the XJ
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I've had a few X350s and X351s and aside from the old boys and their "a proper jaguar must have four headlights, be a three box saloon, and have a toby carvery interior" the X351 is twice the car. It's absolutely fabulous in the high spec versions.
The arse is dropping out of the barge market at trade auctions FWIW, which suggests they're not flying off forecourts so you should be able to have a vigorous haggle. Those 5.0 XJs take forever to sell at trade auctions, and unless they're mega low miles they don't get strong prices,so rest assured the dealer will have loads of margin in a £12k one.
I paid £500 less than the linked light blue 5.0 for a fully historied 2010 Supersport with 55k on the clock 3 months ago, and a little more than a year before it had sold from a "specialist dealer" for over £20k, you probably don't want to be that guy.
The supercharged XJ is a truly hilarious car if you can find one. Laugh out loud funny on every drive, even more so than the Mercedes S600 twin turbo I had previously (also fabulous but woeful for reliability and ballache compared to the XJs I've had).
It's absolutely the drivers choice of barge, I really have no idea what I'd replace it with.
The arse is dropping out of the barge market at trade auctions FWIW, which suggests they're not flying off forecourts so you should be able to have a vigorous haggle. Those 5.0 XJs take forever to sell at trade auctions, and unless they're mega low miles they don't get strong prices,so rest assured the dealer will have loads of margin in a £12k one.
I paid £500 less than the linked light blue 5.0 for a fully historied 2010 Supersport with 55k on the clock 3 months ago, and a little more than a year before it had sold from a "specialist dealer" for over £20k, you probably don't want to be that guy.
The supercharged XJ is a truly hilarious car if you can find one. Laugh out loud funny on every drive, even more so than the Mercedes S600 twin turbo I had previously (also fabulous but woeful for reliability and ballache compared to the XJs I've had).
It's absolutely the drivers choice of barge, I really have no idea what I'd replace it with.
Chrylser 300c with the Hemi v8
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202304126...
Bonus points if you fit the bentley bodykit
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202304126...
Bonus points if you fit the bentley bodykit
GeniusOfLove said:
I've had a few X350s and X351s and aside from the old boys and their "a proper jaguar must have four headlights, be a three box saloon, and have a toby carvery interior" the X351 is twice the car. It's absolutely fabulous in the high spec versions.
The arse is dropping out of the barge market at trade auctions FWIW, which suggests they're not flying off forecourts so you should be able to have a vigorous haggle. Those 5.0 XJs take forever to sell at trade auctions, and unless they're mega low miles they don't get strong prices,so rest assured the dealer will have loads of margin in a £12k one.
I paid £500 less than the linked light blue 5.0 for a fully historied 2010 Supersport with 55k on the clock 3 months ago, and a little more than a year before it had sold from a "specialist dealer" for over £20k, you probably don't want to be that guy.
The supercharged XJ is a truly hilarious car if you can find one. Laugh out loud funny on every drive, even more so than the Mercedes S600 twin turbo I had previously (also fabulous but woeful for reliability and ballache compared to the XJs I've had).
It's absolutely the drivers choice of barge, I really have no idea what I'd replace it with.
As much as I hated the x351 design when it first came out, I have to admit that it has aged very well, to the point that I always turn my head when one drives by and I continue to obsesively think about it for hours afterwards. They are very rare here in Switzerland and the used prices are still strong. The arse is dropping out of the barge market at trade auctions FWIW, which suggests they're not flying off forecourts so you should be able to have a vigorous haggle. Those 5.0 XJs take forever to sell at trade auctions, and unless they're mega low miles they don't get strong prices,so rest assured the dealer will have loads of margin in a £12k one.
I paid £500 less than the linked light blue 5.0 for a fully historied 2010 Supersport with 55k on the clock 3 months ago, and a little more than a year before it had sold from a "specialist dealer" for over £20k, you probably don't want to be that guy.
The supercharged XJ is a truly hilarious car if you can find one. Laugh out loud funny on every drive, even more so than the Mercedes S600 twin turbo I had previously (also fabulous but woeful for reliability and ballache compared to the XJs I've had).
It's absolutely the drivers choice of barge, I really have no idea what I'd replace it with.
Which engine do you think would be the best choice (in AWD mode)?
flatso said:
As much as I hated the x351 design when it first came out, I have to admit that it has aged very well, to the point that I always turn my head when one drives by and I continue to obsesively think about it for hours afterwards. They are very rare here in Switzerland and the used prices are still strong.
Which engine do you think would be the best choice (in AWD mode)?
They look much better in person than in photos. The interior is an absolute star though, if the original purchaser had enough imagination not to go for black/black/black.Which engine do you think would be the best choice (in AWD mode)?
I'm not sure what options came in AWD for LHD Euro markets? The NASP 5.0 was only around for a couple of years and I'm pretty sure was never AWD, which is a shame as it's probably the "goldilocks" engine, but none of them were real duffers and even the diesel doesn't seem to have the crank snapping issues Land Rovers have in the Jaguars it was fitted to, I see loads on intergalatic mileages.
Your chariot awaits...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202305257...
Or is this more sensible? Probably not a word that belongs in a thread like this...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202307250...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202305257...
Or is this more sensible? Probably not a word that belongs in a thread like this...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202307250...
If you don't mind high milers, fleet and ex rep cars the world opens up even more.
Seen a few ex Addison Lee S Classes, around 5 years old, Full Merc service history, priced at about half of a private seller. Just have to deal with the odo showing 150k+. Might not get a V8 but the V6s aren't to be too sniffed at.
Either that or you can come join the HSV crew and get yourself a VXR8.
Seen a few ex Addison Lee S Classes, around 5 years old, Full Merc service history, priced at about half of a private seller. Just have to deal with the odo showing 150k+. Might not get a V8 but the V6s aren't to be too sniffed at.
Either that or you can come join the HSV crew and get yourself a VXR8.
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