Been a Jaguar and Land Rover owner since 2000. First was a 2000 S-Type 4L, followed by three X308 XJ8s and bunches of Land Rovers. Latest 2003 XJ8, my daily driver, is 24 years old since build date in May 2002 and has 76,000 miles. Great car; pretty flawless and less than $2000 in repairs since buying it over three years ago (most of cost due to rebuilding suspension first month).

My local dealer, Checkered Flag (aka, Jaguar of Virginia Beach) has advertised 30 (imi thirty) brand new -- but 2024 year -- 4 cyl XF for $40000, discounted from new price of about $60,0000 (stickers vary around $58,900 give or take).

Some questions for fellow Jag owners, but specifically for those familiar with XF series (I drove a 5L back in 2019 that my
SIL rented from Hertz -- I was impressed).

Is this a good buy? What are the known issues, particularly the turbo 4 cylinder? As I have done with the X308s, I will start to read up on what is in the forum; but maybe some heads up, please.

The window sticker of a unit that I looked at last night shows the cars were shipped to Jaguar of Virginia Beach, recently, via Baltimore MD. Does anyone know what is the story behind cars that were built about three years ago and just now arriving to market? I would hate to buy units that have sat on a burned out ship . . . or been in a flood . . . !

Thank you for your patience.

 

Hard to say but my guess is that they have just been sitting as no one wants one? 4 cylinder from a company that is teetering on shutting down completely. Will the dealer even keep Jaguar so you can get the car serviced? Neither of the dealers I have purchased my Jaguars from will even work or look at a Jag anymore. They went to Land Rover and never looked back.

Would you have purchased a Studebaker years ago? It is a risk!
I think it would or will take an even bigger discount to move these cars.
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