I have just had my gearbox serviced and it is as smooth as butter.
I was heading home, and for once I had my Kiwi 3 OBDII sender unit in the 3.2 instead of the XJR.
I thought I’d try a 0-60mph time. Dry roads, 18’C, standard car apart from the Andy bracket.
recently the OBDII software on my iPhone has updated and it now shows GPS speed as well as vehicle sensor speed. At a steady 60mph/96kmh the ECU thinks it is doing 92kmh. There is the same 4kmh error in my XJR.(perhaps tyre related)

so on the graph shown, I did 0-92km/h in a smidgen over 8 seconds. Not bad, me thought. I had always though it was about 9-9.5 secs but this reflects the lag time of waiting for GPS to catch up when accelerating.

I have done this before on a hotter day in the manual XJR and got a time of about 5.5 secs. On a cooler day with about 80kg of junk removed from the boot/trunk, I would expect to go slightly faster, but I am loathe to thrash the drivetrain, having had a new clutch about 6 months ago.

 

I have just repeated the exercise in the XJR. (Same road, same temperature 19’C).
I turned off the traction control and aircon.
first run (first graph) was best with a 0-60 mph of 5 seconds. Second run hopeless with far too much wheelspin and the expensive smell of burning money as I deglazed the clutch. Third run I forgot the app was paused so I missed recording what would have been a good time. Fourth run (2nd graph) was good, hitting 75mph in about 8.5 seconds and almost 90mph in 12 secs. (Allowing for ECU thinking 60mph is 92km/h as per first post).
enough ...

 

MMMMMM.

The 3.2 is no slouch by any means.

Sweet engine and revs sweetly.

The lack of electricery in the trans is just a bonus for the wallet in my opinion.

I always preferred my 3.2 to the "R", it simply did what it did effortlessly.

 

the 3.2 is slow off the mark because not much torque, but gets going once in the revs, and wafts along nicely between 60-100mph, almost nicer at speed than the XJR because of the high profile tyres and softer suspension.

makes me wonder what a good XJ12/Double Six would be like, best of both worlds, tons of torque and almost as much bhp, plus ‘plush’

 

My rude exhaust..

 

Rude, but very, very brief!