I am looking for any insight, or opinions people might have about these. More so the 3.2 than the 4.0 litre since they're as rare as rocking horse poo it seems.
I hear they are extremely reliable if well cared for (more so than the later V8s), they look a bit ...80s inside I suppose but still lovely, wood and leather and they come with proper climate control too.
I can't help but notice they seem a bit slow, at least they do on paper. compared to what I am used to anyway. They have a 4 speed autobox ...how is this? ...smooth, are the ratios well spaced? ...does the engine have sufficient torque to work well with a 4 speed box.
I am pretty sure a few people here have had these in the past, I remember reading as much. But a search doesn't turn up much in the way of real, honest opinions about them.
I haven't decided what I am going to do with my car situation yet, and I am considering all options, from spending as little as possible to enough to get a nice X350 again ...I'm open to various avenues here.
On a slightly different but Jag related note.
I had a look at a 1 owner 'FSH' S-Type yesterday, 52 plate with only 51k on the clock. The car was in very good condition except the cup holders looked a bit scuffed and the centre armrest storage, which is right behind the cup holders smelt rather odd, kind of like a dog or maybe like someone had spilt some Horlicks in there and never cleaned it properly. But my main issues was the damn service history, a 3 litre V6 S type should be serviced once every 10k miles or 12 months, whichever comes first ...and while it had a service stamp for every 10k miles it did not for every 12 months, thus it should have had 8 ...it had 5.
It was very quiet and the seats very very comfortable, much softer than the ones in my BMW. The interior might look like an XJ from a distance but look closer and you can see where they have saved money, there is plastic where there is leather in the XJ ...plastic where there is chrome in the XJ and the door bins are not carpeted! ...anyway I walked away because of the funny smell in the arm-rest storage, and the incomplete history, the body was in very, very good condition though, tyres looked almost new and were all Pirelli ...as they should be on a Jag if you stick with what Jaguar fit, engine bay was clean and the interior was very clean, seats unworn, steering wheel unworn etc ...other than the cup-holders.
Annoyingly most of the cars I see advertised that actually go to the trouble of listing the history are the same though, people think it's ok to ignore the time factor and it's just miles that matter, or with younger cars with higher mileage they ignore miles and go on time, still getting it serviced once a year even if they did 20k in that time. Grrr.
I hear they are extremely reliable if well cared for (more so than the later V8s), they look a bit ...80s inside I suppose but still lovely, wood and leather and they come with proper climate control too.
I can't help but notice they seem a bit slow, at least they do on paper. compared to what I am used to anyway. They have a 4 speed autobox ...how is this? ...smooth, are the ratios well spaced? ...does the engine have sufficient torque to work well with a 4 speed box.
I am pretty sure a few people here have had these in the past, I remember reading as much. But a search doesn't turn up much in the way of real, honest opinions about them.
I haven't decided what I am going to do with my car situation yet, and I am considering all options, from spending as little as possible to enough to get a nice X350 again ...I'm open to various avenues here.
On a slightly different but Jag related note.
I had a look at a 1 owner 'FSH' S-Type yesterday, 52 plate with only 51k on the clock. The car was in very good condition except the cup holders looked a bit scuffed and the centre armrest storage, which is right behind the cup holders smelt rather odd, kind of like a dog or maybe like someone had spilt some Horlicks in there and never cleaned it properly. But my main issues was the damn service history, a 3 litre V6 S type should be serviced once every 10k miles or 12 months, whichever comes first ...and while it had a service stamp for every 10k miles it did not for every 12 months, thus it should have had 8 ...it had 5.
It was very quiet and the seats very very comfortable, much softer than the ones in my BMW. The interior might look like an XJ from a distance but look closer and you can see where they have saved money, there is plastic where there is leather in the XJ ...plastic where there is chrome in the XJ and the door bins are not carpeted! ...anyway I walked away because of the funny smell in the arm-rest storage, and the incomplete history, the body was in very, very good condition though, tyres looked almost new and were all Pirelli ...as they should be on a Jag if you stick with what Jaguar fit, engine bay was clean and the interior was very clean, seats unworn, steering wheel unworn etc ...other than the cup-holders.
Annoyingly most of the cars I see advertised that actually go to the trouble of listing the history are the same though, people think it's ok to ignore the time factor and it's just miles that matter, or with younger cars with higher mileage they ignore miles and go on time, still getting it serviced once a year even if they did 20k in that time. Grrr.
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...a lot of the really good ones seem to be gold, maybe because only elderly gentlemen buy them in that colour.