Ok so here's the thing......
I get so many comments and compliments on my car as I'm sure you all do, never ceases to amaze me with an 8 year old 106k mile daily driver!
The looks, the stares and admiring glances are still a surprise somehow? Not really in some ways as I love her to pieces, but still get a kick outta it when it does happen, which seems to most days.

I'm sure you must all have the same and would like you to share your experiences with me, here's a few recent ones of mine......

I was getting the car washed n cleaned on Monday ready for my MIL's funeral on the Tuesday, it was a bright sunny day and she was looking her best.
An elderly man draws up and starts to chat, love your car he says, really beautiful, what is it?
I told him t was a Jaguar, the XJ and thanked him for his compliment
Ah he says, I've always loved Jaguars and proceeds to chat to me for the next 2 mins or so....really good and made my day.

Today, the car's still looking pretty good, I'm leaving the local shop and walking to m car, just put the milk etc into the back seat and sit in the drivers seat.
A guy walking past stops and says, lovely car, is that the Executive version.
I thank him for his compliment and advise it's the Sovereign in LWB form ( as he was chatting about the size of the rear door...lol )
He stands and makes small talk about the car and Jaguar in general for the next 10 minutes.....pretty cool.



Now as mush as I love my car, I'm sure it's not really much different in many ways from the rest of yours and you must all get the same experiences?

I'm kinda thinking if we just gave everybody Jaguars to drive around in it would id in world peace as everyone seems so enamoured with them, lol

Please share your experiences
Jim

 

It seems this last year or so, every time I pull into a gas station, a vehicle pulls into the drive and a guy gets out telling me how he has run out of gas and will I buy him 20 bucks of fuel. Go figure...

 

I was sitting at a light the other day, had the windows down, waitinf to take off and a pretty hot girl rolls up in a Lexus.

She rolls down her window and says "that's a bad Jag" shoots me a smile and then the lights change. She drives off and I'm feeling pretty good about that.

Griff

 

Well an experience like that isn't going to make you feel bad at all, nice one Griff

 

I get compliments on mine all the time. But I get more pleasure surprising a young punk in a Mustang or a Camaro at a stop light. Gotta love the supercharger.

 

BOX says:

It seems this last year or so, every time I pull into a gas station, a vehicle pulls into the drive and a guy gets out telling me how he has run out of gas and will I buy him 20 ----__________________________________________________ ________
Biggest con around.
Normally happens in a Lowes or other shopping centers parking lot.---goes sort of like this: "Hello sir, I'm from out of town and I just ran out of gas and don't have any money. I'm trying to get my wife to the doctors. Can you give me a few dollars to buy some gas?"
I always get ride of them by saying: "I'll take you back to your car and we'll get her to the doctors"....They normally just look at me like I'm some kind of nut, then just walk off. Works every time........
I hope you don't fall for the con. 20 bucks for fuel? Give me a break......what ever happened to the "couple of dollars" con?

 

I once pulled into a space in a parking garage, upon getting out I was greeted by a man in his 70's saying nice car in a scottish brogue and introduced himself as Jimmy Stewart. He then proceeded to give me the history of Jaguar and that his cousin Jackie had and raced one of the first E-Types.
After I put two and two together, here I have the cousin of the legendary Sir Jackie Stewart telling me I had a nice car.
Now for me that was a compliment.

 

Now THAT is a cool story!

 

Maybe once or twice A YEAR I'll get a compliment from some older gentleman, but that's about it. In Los Angeles, most cars seem to be invisible unless its an exotic or classic.

 

Having just driven my 07 XJR 9,200 miles on the USA "great circle route" (I40E US1N US2W), I will say that many people really like it

...A young Oregon couple looking in the windows; he explaining to her that this was a "green Bentley"

...Valet in San Francisco asking whether he could leave it parked at the hotel entrance to show his friends

...School girls in Amarillo taking selfies with the Jag at a rest stop, asking whether we could watch movies in the headrests (don't know; never tried)

...Fellow in Montana dragging his wife out of the Glacier restaurant to show her a "real jag"

...Rumor in the little town of Oakridge, OR (where we rented a cabin for a few days) that we were visiting "foreign diplomats" (the XJR came to me with a brit front plate)

...Untold "beautiful car!" comments (which I never heard said of my German cars over the years, save maybe one 911 turbo)

 

Jeeesh Hisport, sounds like you're getting plenty of attention on yours, which is exactly the way it should be, love the different cool stories.

I visited the local corner shop earlier tonight, it's an Asian family set up open 8 till late, that kinda thing. I'm in and out most days, sometimes even 2 or 3 times and know them well, we usually have some banter or other.

They compliment me on my car often, sometimes embarrassingly so, tonight the elder brother told me it was his "dream" to own one just like it some day.

XJ8JR and Hisport - how about sharing a couple of pics?

 

Had to bring this up again. In the last month I've gotten a compliment every week, sometimes 2 a week. Makes all the work,worry, and $ seem a little easier to swallow.
When its running good, I really, really LOVE this car. It's never mistaken by others as anything but a JAG.

The sweetest words a Jag owner could hear are:
1) "It's fixed"
2) And the all mighty words "Nice Jag"

 

I get compliments regularly. Friday evening some teenagers in a Civic Si (highly modified) yelled, "Nice Jag".

But usually, I get them from older guys when I pull into the coffee shop.

 

It really is based on where you live for your compliment ratio...In Cali like mentioned above it is just another nice car being overshadowed by new high end cars and exotics...Here in CT I see maybe a dozen XJs / XJRs per year so they are more exclusive to my area, thus compliment ratio goes up compared to FL OR CA...X and S types are a dime a dozen even here!

 

Sir Jackie Stewart .... Crazy storyline

 

I get compliments and recently I found a sticker pasted on the driver's window saying they love my car and would like to make me an offer for it as they couldn't find used ones anywhere. With conmen all over, I did not even want to entertain the note. Besides, I was not and will not sell mine. I have since bought 3 more brand new cars but that XJ is still with me. It's going nowhere.

And then lately, I toook it to fetch my son from rugby practice and his coach approached me asking to buy it from me, again claiming he couldn't find used ones anywhere. I told him it wasn't for sale, and besides, even if I was to sell it, I was gonna get peanuts for it, yet as it is, it's adding to my aristocratic image and giving me the respect on the road with few drivers cutting me off.

Viva XJ! A collector's item this one.

 

Nice one Seth, just goes to show that people are still loving these cars and the marque.

Recently I visited the local ZF Transmission specialist, the MD there has twice now asked if my car was for sale. Nice compliment and certainly doesn't make me feel bad lol

Around a week or so ago I was out detailing the ole girl, had the DA in hand and spent the entire weekend mostly getting her in shape.
One of the local Tesco supermarket van drivers drove by slowly, then stopped, beautiful car he says, I really love that shape.

You wouldn't be selling it by any chance would you?
Had a little chuckle and says no, not anytime soon and thanks for the compliment.

It turns out he lives in the street and passes most days, so maybe that's where it comes from, who knows?

Onwards n upwards
Jim

 

I've only owned mine for 3 months, but I think this is pretty funny. Now, whenever I valet park at a charity event or fancy restaurant, they won't give me a claim ticket. I say, "I need a ticket" and they say "Oh, no sir, you don't". The first few times, I walked away confued.

So, when I come out, the valet says "OK, the Jag guy is here" and they have parked my 2004 XJ8 with 115,000 miles, that I paid $4300 for, out in front, and all of the BMW's, Porsches, and MB's costing 20 times more in back. Each time it gets funnier and funnier for me. Last week I was at a charity event and mine was parked up front, and all the expensive cars parked in back in a dirt lot.

 

I get the same treatment, but at the gentlemen's clubs. :-)

 

The x350 XJR is becoming pretty rare. Only 10 on Autotrader in the entire US right now, very few in the Southeast, none in the Atlanta area.

I get a lot of looks because you don't see many XJs, and people who know cars are always interested in the XJR.