Let's see some Sexy 308 Pictures
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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
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
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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.
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XJDanny (04-07-2015)
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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.
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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,
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Also, these wheels you have are more "sporty" looking than the stock wheels of an early XJ8.
Cheers,
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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,
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,