Greetings fellow enthusiasts.

Since my wife of 30+ years finally got a driver's license last year for the first time since she was a teenager, we decided that it was time to become a two-car family. For the past 30 years, I have only owned two-door coupes and/or convertibles (Mazda RX-7, Acura Legend, MB SLK, Lexus SC430), but decided that it was time to buy a four-door sedan for practical purposes. We moved to Las Vegas a couple of years ago and get a lot of friends and family visiting us now - Big Surprise! I've been renting cars every time someone comes out here, so it makes sense that one of our cars be capable of chauffeuring people around town.

Even though I was going to be saddled with a sedan for the first time in my life, I still wanted a car with a little pizzazz. With a self-imposed budget of $60k - $80k, I had settled on a late model Maserati Quattroporte and spent the past few weeks researching and test-driving various vehicles. The ride was very nice, but in conducting research, I became concerned with annual maintenance/upkeep costs of a vehicle that wouldn't be under warranty.

Yesterday morning, I saw an add for a Jaguar XF sedan and decided to go check one out at our local dealer. Since I'm 6'4", I wanted to see if I could fit in it comfortably, and almost as important, see if someone could sit behind me while I was driving. The size of the car was fine, but I wasn't happy with the aesthetics of the interior. It felt a little "cheap" especially after having driven Maseratis for the past month. So after test-driving the XF, I decided to look at the XJ. I liked this one much better, but when we returned to the dealership following the test-drive, my eye caught a claret XJL Portfolio. Ahhh, I thought, that looks like me. We went for our third test-drive of the day and at the conclusion I knew that I had found my new car. This car had most of the accutrements of the late mode Maserati, with the added benefit of a four-yr/50k warranty that would take care of all service/maintenance issues over that span of time.

So, seven hours after having gone to visit a Jaguar dealership with the sole purpose of just checking out a car I had not considered before, I drove home with my new 2012 XJL.

 

Welcome to the site!! The XJs are beautiful cars. Did you happen to move to las vegas from bathesda MD?

 

Yes, I did. I lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC for 25 years (the last ten in Bethesda) before moving to Las Vegas two years ago.

 

Welcome to the forum,

Good to have you with us.
Don't you just hate when that happens. :-)
Let us know how you like it.



You should add your car details to your signature to help others to help you.

 

Thanks for the welcome, but I don't understand this comment. I've already listed the car in my signature. What other details should I add?

 

You already have already done it. I live right next to dc on the va side.

 

Don't worry your golden, I should have removed that line from my reply.
Too much hurry, you probably noticed it caused me to forget how to spell also. :-)