Anyone Fancy an XJR?

[cort16]

I'm selling all my cars other than the SD1 so I can buy some kind of supershite I.e. An Avantime or early Range Rover.

I've got the e39 up for sale and the XJR is next to go. Although it's not normal shite fodder I thought I'd stick it up here first.

 

It's a year 2000 car and is the later X308 XJ with the revised dashboard so much improved inside over the X300. It's got a super charged 4.0v8, which a pant filling 370bhp. That means 0-60 in mid 5's and 155mph top speed.

I've loved owning this car as I've always wanted one and it's totally mental when you want it be but really docile when you're just cruising around burning petrol. It does about 18-20mpg.

 

It passed it's MOT about 2 weeks ago and had an advisory on an arb bush, which you can hear clunking sometimes. It also had an advisory on a cut on the tyre, which is a pain as I only put these part worns just on before the MOT. To be fair I'd spend the cash and get a decent set of rear tyres put on it as the wan-kings on it are lethal with this amount of power.

 

It's got pretty good service history but I'd not say full. It runs great and has a nice looking full stainless system that makes it sound great without being to intrusive.

 

The main bad point with the car is the panels. The wings, bonnet and drivers door are off another car. The previous owner bought a breaker and transfered the panels onto this and while it's technically the same colour the shade is obviously wrong not helped by having different coloured stripes on them!  There's a few bits of rust breaking through on the arches and stuff but it's not too bad for one of these.

I'm going to put a consistantly coloured stripe and tidy up a few wee bits before I sell it.

 

Its lovely inside. Black leather with dark ebony dash. No warnings on the dash, electric seats with elecy headrest etc, Aircon works, gearbox is super smooth and has sports mode.

 

I'm looking for £2000 for it but I'm going to advertise it elsewhere for more. I think it's a lot of car for the money.

 

To recap

 

I'm in Ayrshire Scotland

It's MOT'd until October 2014

I've just taxed it for 6 months.

Can be comfortably driven in Moccasins

£2000

 

Here's some suitably shit pictures. For some reason I decided to take these after I put it in the lockup..

 

IMG_0147 by cort16, on Flickr

 

IMG_0148 by cort16, on Flickr

 

IMG_0155 by cort16, on Flickr

 

IMG_0162 by cort16, on Flickr

 

IMG_0152 by cort16, on Flickr

 

Also check out this shit video

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8651586@N08/10763919296/

 

[cort16]

Sunshine on Leith, well North Queensferry

 

XJR by cort16, on Flickr

[drum]

Lovely. In other circumstances etc...

[DVee8]

I had an S-Type R the performance is something else,its different to any other fast car

Good luck these are really great cars

[cort16]

Cheers, the difference between these and something like an Impreza is the torque they just shove you down the road.

The word on the street is you can make them really mental by changing the pulley on the supercharger but that engine looks way above my pay grade i.e shit 1970's cast iron rover engines.

[HMC]

Lovely! Much want. Always kept an eye out when Pete-m mentioned thinking of selling his a few years back. Sadly not in my budget at the mo

GLWTS

[Pillock]

Yeah, a smaller pulley spins it faster so more air, bigger bang. Not that this needs it.....!

[stuboy]

i wanted one for years..........

 

but solicitor im using is draining everything i got

[Spiny Norman]

I looked at a regular 4 litre (non-supercharged) version exactly the same as that before I eventually bought the Merc and I decided that was the one colour scheme on a Jag I really liked. I'm not a fan of the deep red/green/blue with pale tan leather that so many of these come in, with the darker interior it looks so much more businesslike.

 

As usual, I'll have to pass but in another time I'd have had that. GLWTS.

[Partridge]

Fancy an XJR? Yes. Can I afford to run it? No.