XJS........is this going to be a bad decision ??

[simonb9]

Thinking about buying another car to tinker with and have some fun in, maybe go on a european driving holiday in. Been looking in the ads and XJS's would be a nice car to woft around in I think. Is this going to be a bad decison ?? Am I going to be throwing money at something which will be rarely used even if I find a decent one that has been carefully looked after ?? Whats the major pitfulls or the most expensive part that can quite easily go wrong ??!!

[triple7]

Tour around in an XJS, funny man!

They disolve before your eyes, so the major thing is rust. if you trawl back through the Jag section you will find the same q's asked before.

Good luck, said it before but the XJS is the ultimate 'Grand Tourer', in that everytime you will go out in it, it will cost you a grand!

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[Myobb]

Rubbish. A good XJS is a joy to drive & need cost no more than any other classic car. Go for a late model car (1995 or 1996, possibly a Celebration model & under say 80,000 miles). Make certain it has a full service history & all the MOT´s & that it has been used regularly. These cars liked to be used so it is not a plus factor for the vendor to claim that it has only done 400 miles since the last MOT. Look out for rust especially around the wheel arches, sills & windscreen & check carefully all the invoices for claimed work. Finally get an expert (from (say) the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club to check the car prior to purchase.Should only cost a couple of hundred pounds but is essential.

[granville]

They are brilliant apart from one critical drawback which Melvyn Bragg once described when summarising the reprised lamentations of Mr T (from the A Team).

"Despite huge commercial success and a significant cultural impact throughout the 1980s, many within the hallowed ranks of New York's fervently parochial, literary illuminati, attacked Baracus's third volume, I pity The Foo' on the grounds of being irredeemably crap."

Ergo, buy one not, sucker!

[another]

Any expensive car is still expensive when it's old. You need to get a good one and there is a lot of rubbish about. I'd buy one which has been recently used well and had money spent. Presently there are plenty around cheap but now they are old they need money spending on them. I've done 17k in the last 3yrs with an V12 manual convertible and it's interesting, practical and fun. Yes I've spent on it but not as much as a 3 years with another boring new M3!