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Originally Posted by buckwheat
Wow. That is one beautiful car. Everything I like in an automobile - super efficient/big motor, heavy frame, well built, and the ride.
I wish I knew more about them. The turbos raise an eyebrow, that would probably stop me from a binge to obtain one. Don't know anything about the tranny, systems or suspension. I've only heard about their legendary Lucas electrics.
Then again back when I was looking at 140s, I only heard things like unreliable, expensive, un-maintainable on and on. Mostly from the "make the lease payment and sue for everything else" crowd. So I figured out how to work on it myself and that was that.
But your XJR's only an 02 - and only $20k. IMHO that's a steal for that amount of car. Ok - I'm off to the http://www.jag-lovers.org site to poke around |
Jag lovers is an excellent forum, every bit as good as this one. Jags are not different than MB, they have there weak points. But amoung Jag fans the 2000+ XJ8's have an awsome reputation for reliability! These are not Fords, the only Ford part on these cars is the oil pan drain plug.
The trans are not that much different than the 722.6, dealer charged my grandparents $6k last year to change theres. But of course done yourself that price could probably be cut in half. Jag parts also cost more than MB parts.