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People have all manner of tastes... Butt lifts? Fat injected into lips? Stitched-on eyebrows? Metalwork in all manner of places?

I like the STR or I wouldn't have bought it, but there are many cars I think ugly - most SUVs etc for a start.

 

Hmpfff... Uncool??? I think not but to each his own no matter how ridiculous...

 

S types will always be timeless. Something about the simplicity and the lines on the body of the car

 

During the years the S-Type was being sold, it simply wasn't on my radar when I would buy a car. There were no local Jaguar dealerships and the cars weren't showing up on used lots around where I was living. Quite honestly, it wasn't until last summer when Jaguar caught my attention. First was a beautiful green 2008 XK. I would have made a serious attempt at buying it, but we learned it had just been sold and was on reserve. Then I found an S-Type. I'll be honest, the looks didn't snag me at first glance, but we went for a test drive and absolutely fell in love with both the experience and the looks. That deal fell through thanks to a horrible salesman, but in hindsight I'm glad because I wound up with a much better deal, an STR for a few thousand less than the 3.0 we test drove. And I wasn't looking for a white car either, but this color has grown on me, fast. People routinely think we must have paid far more than we did for this car.

 

Love the white. my 2000 was white, but just bought an 03 str in black. both v8 but this black one? scary fast to me....

 

These STR's are beasts!

 

This is the ugliest car ever -- and I think was even unofficially dubbed so at the New York Auto Show on its debut. There is not an inch of this car that is not ugly.


Ugly!

 

Scrannel, that looks like something you would find washed up on a beach somewhere...

(and yet Lyons kept it in production for a good while after acquiring Daimler).

 

What in the world is that monstrosity?

 

Daimler SP250... was part of their gift to Jaguar when they sold out. In every sense of the word. Worse, it's got a fiberglass body so it will last forever!

 

Not only do tastes vary, but they can change. Speaking for myself, but perhaps others, the S-Type styling didn't appeal at first. Not at all. Over the years, though, it sorta grew on me. Now I think they're gorgeous.

This has happened to me a number of times over the years.

And it's happened in reverse as well. I'm no longer fond of some designs that I once liked.

Cheers
DD

 

Yes, watched that happening with the S-Type, Though have always liked it.

 

I have a way to tell. Drive up for your dinner date in your Mazda. If there is another dinner date, drive up in your S-Type. There will be MORE approval of a Jaguar chariot. I can guarantee that. I've actually done that. Choose: Retiree gold Mazda or stunning red Jaguar S-type. What will she choose?

 

Yep, this is me as well. I'm still not 100% there but it's definitely growing on me. It's just that grill lol. It's always sort of reminded me of well.. are we trying to be appropriate here, or..? LOL. Always has looked a bit like a shaved beaver, I guess is about as appropriate as I can be.

 

I am like Doug.

Had the "original" S Type, in company of the MK X. Both still in a barn on the farm, and allocated to the "kids" when I loose it a tad more, oops.

Had 2 S Type new gen, both 3ltr, and X200 spec. LOVED them both. Super Intelligent Idiot drivers took both out of the land of the living in shopping centre car parks. We were not anywhere near them. The Black in 2018, the Silver last week.

Looking for another now to replace the Silver Beast.

Looks are in the eye of the beholder, and I never took to the E Type, sorry guys, it is what it is.

This later XF etc do not even get a 2nd look, awful things.
Laptops on wheels, not for me.

 

The grille is ....um....perhaps controversial. But it is a key part of the retro look.




If nothing else it is more attractive than the gaping maw seen on so many modern-styled cars



Cheers
DD

 

I drove a Mk 1 through much of college. My 2008 S-type brings back all the good memories, so far none of the bad! As far as the grill goes it just seems to work/not work so well car to car. I have a Satin with the mesh/R grill and it looks great!

 

Hold my beer:

 

Taste is so personal.

I like the de-chromed small-mesh grille of the STR I have (it's not even got the rear chrome strip because it is before that got - weirdly - added).