I can't even get a longbow in the boot, which surprised me tbh as it looks quite large.

The worst bit is the fake floor though, put anything heavy in there & the false floor collapses onto the spare wheel or snaps.

 

Ahhhh yes....British engineering at it's finest.

 

Aye. I've got a small tyre pump that lives on top of the spare wheel & supports the floor. It wouldn't have taken much to make a bit of foam packing that did the same from the factory.

 

I love my 308 but....

 

This ^^^^

The trunk on the newer XF is cavernous, but everything I needed to reach was always shifted up to the back of the rear seat and I would literally have to crawl halfway into the trunk to reach. And the first time I took it to the airport to pick up my sister, I had a hell of a time trying to fit her luggage in through the trunk opening without scratching some paint. The XF and all modern fastback sedans really should have been built as liftbacks as the tiny trunk lids make access abysmal.

The trunk on the X308 is not as large, but I never had any such problems. It fit my sister's giant luggage and the trunk lid lifted up completely out of the way and made the entire trunk accessible without any gymnastics. Actually I think the modern fastback sedan design is part of what has killed off the sedan. If I were shopping for a family hauler, yeah, I'd do an SUV over a modern sedan too just for the ease of loading groceries once a week. Bring back the 3-box sedan or if they have to keep the aero shape for fuel economy, at least make them a liftback.

 

Amen to @pdupler on the liftback approach. My wife needs a transport chair and soon a wheelchair to leave the house. Bending over to lift one of those out of a conventional trunk, or put one in, is at my age (76) becoming difficult. I'm thankful for our lift back '14 Prius so there's no lower back straining. She can't get in or out of the Jag because it's too low for her to easily enter or exit, so her rare trips outside the house are in the Prius which is the right height for her. Whenever I need to replace the Toyota I'll be looking for a lift back or small, lowish SUV with room in the back for a chair as she's height- and weight-challenged.

 

That is a beautiful car. The thing I love about the X308 is that is retains some of the incredible beauty of the earlier cars but has more modern, reliable mechanicals and electronics. I would love is someone did a restomod of these cars.

 

When I was child during the OPEC crisis, dad traded his 69 Ford truck on a 72 Pinto. They made Pintos with trunk lids, but ours had the liftback. Wasn't any way to tie things down in the back so I was the tie-down. We'd fold the seats down and I'd ride back there holding on to whatever we were hauling. Not very safe but I had a blast. We'd throw the canoe on a rack on top and load the back with camping gear. Amazing how much stuff we could get back there. I still have my favorite liftback, a 1985 Supra that I bought immediately after college. I've hauled lots of stuff in that and been all over the USA and Canada in it. However, I can't imagine life without a pickup truck. I bought a new Ford truck in 1991 and except for a three-year period that I tried doing the SUV/offroad thing with a 97 Landcruiser, I've had a pickup ever since. The thing with the SUV was, kinda like any liftback, just too much hassle to so carefully wrap up whatever I was hauling so that I wouldn't damage the upholstery. Fertilizer bags are always filthy and have a hole in them somewhere and my car hobby tended to take me to salvage yards for greasy parts. But for your purpose, personal mobility devices and medical equipment are generally kept pretty clean so I can see a liftback being a good solution.

I've wished I had the skills and the time to go buy two wrecked ones (smashed at either end), saw them in half and put them together (the good ends) in the form of a coupe like the '76 XJ-12C. It'd take a lot of custom metal work that I don't know how to do to get the proportions just right but I think it would be the most beautiful thing ever.