Jaguar XJR LS Review

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Jaguar XJR LS
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Geoff Mac's Review of Jaguar XJR LS

23rd Nov 2008

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Length of ownership
    Four Years
  • Performance
    4.5 stars
  • Reliability
    5 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    1995
  • Doors
    Four
  • Practicality
    4 stars
Bad Points

Small shallow boot must be the car's worst point and to some extent the lack of rear leg room. But then I have to remind myself why I bought the car, I wanted performance, a sporting Grand Tourer not a family run about. The car is big enough for us to make our annual trip to the South of France with four people onboard and the boot takes all the luggage and some wine. However the boot is small in comparison with other cars such as a BMW or Mercedes.


General Comments

My 4.0 straight six Jaguar XJR is a joy to drive. It took me four years of hunting it down and that was four years ago. It was worth the wait to find a manual five speed XJR. Its a rocket or a regal carriage, which ever you like. Far better than the auto I had before. Get in turn the key an it goes, 100% reliability and fantastic build quality, the interior is definitely British, a calming comfortable safe place to be. I don't mind the X300's origins and wish that Jaguar had stayed with the six longer than they did because the AJ16 engine has proved more reliable than the AJ8.
The car is great and a real gem with a manual gearbox. My car is not standard and now produces 385BHP with 406 Lbs of torque. So my comments may not apply to standard cars as far as performance is concerned. Would I recommend an X 300 to a prospective purchaser? Yes any well maintained X 300 is worthy of the Jaguar badge. A very exciting, well made, comfortable, reliable, graceful sporting saloon, and these days inexpensive purchase. Ford did well by Jaguar to bring about, with enough investment, reliability and German build quality to a good design that you could still trace to the influence or pen of Sir William Lyons. A real head turner!

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