Opinions on this XKR
#22
Just a little update. I am continuing to move forward on getting this car. The dealership appears to have stepped up and done the work that was needed. The plan is to do a thorough FaceTime session to go over the previous issues and see they've been resolved. They performed a compression test and said everything looked ok (of course I'll get the actual numbers before the deal is done). So in the upcoming days I should get all the information I need to make a final decision, but it's looking pretty positive.
#24
I got to drive a LOT of XKEs back in the 70's. While I was in school I worked for a Jaguar dealer in their service department as a driver. The mechanics were too greedy to spend time test driving the cars after they fixed them. They were raking in the money fixing them in less time than alotted but getting paid for the alotted time.
So I got to do most all of the test driving for about 4 hours a day.
I loved driving the XKEs but can't imagine one being used as a daily driver, especially now that I have the XK8.
On weekends at night I worked at an exclusive hotel/club in downtown Indianapolis as a valet. Got to drive all kinds of exotic expensive cars (and come home with a roll of cash from tips).
Both were dream jobs for a teen with a driver’s license.
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kauai1800 (01-26-2017)