I normally think the revolver wheels look rally bland and meh on xk8s, but they look really good on the xj holybananas. Nice looking car!

 

Riverbank photo shoot in Taipei city.
This is the place where 2nd hand car dealers make pictures for their on-line sales.
Got 3 people in half hour asking me if I wanted to sell the car, no way ....
Compliments all over though.

 

Bound to warm up one of these days, right? .... can't wait to give the cat a proper bath.

 

Ah, I like these kinds of threads! I wanted to take some sexy pictures like in my signiture (XJ-S) last night but fell asleep before I could shoot out

 

Oddly, it is a tad yellowy (damn camera )

 

Love this ride!

 

Absolutely great shots and a lot of passion for these cars. I will tell you guys that my knees went a bit weak the first time I saw my car for sale about 10 years ago. I love the car and as all my other cars are either weapons or appliances, the XJR is the only one I actually truly love.


I feel really bad in that I really don't have any great shots of my car and if I can ever get the Immobilizer turned off, I will go out and get better shots. One good thing is that I own a pair of Cats, though related, not at all alike. They go along with my Ford Explorer, Ford Edge, 1976 Ford F250 (theme here?), Mazda RX7 Racecar and of course the 2003 XJR and Cougar (ex World Challenge Car). And sorry for the crappy evening cell phone pic. It was only shot to get insurance updated and I had to provide proof that the car was in great condition.


Eric

 

Ok it's just a quickie shot with my phone. I'll try to take a better one and post soon.

 

Where are you that has an XJ6, Mini, a Land Rover 90 and some kind of convertible (MG?) in the parking lot?

 

Here's my XJ8!







-Pilotman

 

My shop in Nashville.

 

This is the best matched set of interior wood trim paneling that I've seen. Even the steering wheel and the shifter knob color shade match the rest of the panels, which is not common. This is something that can only be achieved by means of an aftermarket set, which makes the pattern and the color shade a little different from most X308 OEM wood trim. Although some stock-only purist may object (shouldn't I know), I personaly love this interior and I wish mine was like yours, but probably not cheap, huh.

 

Don't tell me you can make that turn into your driveway without scraping front and rear .
Nice car!

 

Thanks for the compliment! I bought this car a year and a half ago. The only thing I did was buy the shifter knob from British Autowood. It was about $100. He does excellent work. To my knowledge, the previous and original owner didn't redo the wood. I've always assumed it's stock but I could be wrong. But the seller didn't mention redoing the wood as a selling feature so I do think it's stock. But it is gorgeous!

 

Just a clean 2000 XJ8 - I need some better pics, I dont remember them looking this blurry Maybe after my radio install - coming soon....













I've change a bit of things since these pics, wheel emblems, brakes, etc. Need some updates.

 

Clean engine, minor changes.

 

I am rather sure your 2 coolant hoses are installed wrong on the reservoir side.
They should be crossing each other.
This way you might built pressure, with several issues as a result.
Nice clean bay though .

 

Well, heck, I'll contribute with a couple of my XJR pics. They are at least 8 years old, although I do have newer pics, but they are from the ICE system. Although I have come to appreciate black XJR's, especially when they're as shiny as XJDanny's beauty, back when I purchased mine I wanted absolutely nothing to do with silver, black or white XJR's because they were all just too common. My first choice was BRG, but XJR's in that color have always been super hard to find. Then I lowered my aim to anything that wasn't those three colors and I fell in love with this light metallic blue aka Zircon.

Cheers,

 

Nice changes; nice upgrades for a basic XJ8 really make a difference. So, the wooden steering wheel and shifter knob are easy to get (I've done this to my glorious XJS), but I'm wondering about the beautiful burlwood picnic tables, especially when the seats are still the same color as the rest of the interior. Were you able to achieve this by just adding the tables to the existing seats? I've always really liked these picnic tables, yet I've never had them, neither on my ex '98 XJ8L, nor on my current '02 XJR. Maybe I still can....

Also, these wheels you have are more "sporty" looking than the stock wheels of an early XJ8.
Cheers,

 

This subject would be at home in just about any Jaguar model section, but it clearly illuminates the X308 cars.

This here is just statistical sales info that clearly puts an exclamation point that supports our already beloved X308's. It shows Jaguar's US sales peaking at its highest ever exactly coinciding with the very time segment during which our beloved X308's were produced. True that this merit could be shared with the XK8/XKR cars of the time (not sure at this point which one of the two sold more cars) but, even when the numbers were shared, they still represent an incredible impact to Jaguar's success in America at that time.

But that's not all. This data also shows the incredible, phenomenal free fall sales debacle that followed Jaguar's post-X308 production. In my personal opinion, it is the consequence of Jaguar's car design decisions to change Jaguar's public image via the "modernization" of design. Jaguar clearly paid the price of abandoning a traditional market (i.e. traditional Jaguar lovers) by intruding into an unproven territory that ended up dropping sales to pre-1993 levels just a few years after the X308 and not to recover until today.

Jaguar US car sales, 1996 to 2009:

Year Units sold

1996 ... 17,878
1997 ... 19,503 First US XK V8
1998 ... 22,503 First US XJ V8. Up to 2002 sales went up by 172%, Wow!
1999 ... 35,039
2000 ... 43,728
2001 ... 44,532
2002 ... 61,204 (Highest US sales, ever....hey, my XJR is a 2002...LOL)
2003 ... 54,655 Last X308's sold in America.
2004 ... 45,875 First X350 sales year in America
2005 ... 30,424
2006 ... 20,683 In only 3 years after the X308, sales dropped by 62%
2007 ... 15,683
2008 ... 15,946
2009 ... 11,955 From here onwards it stays similar. 2014 was 15,773 units

If you put this data on a spreadsheet and plot a curve, it'll look like a picture of mount Fuji... with the crater exactly on 2002...

Enjoy.

Cheers,