Hey all,

Just tuning in to say that I might soon be migrating from the XJ6 forum to over here.

I told my favorite jag parts guy that I'd sell BOTH of my jags for a good XJS and he mentioned that he has one that he imported that he has had sitting for a couple of years that he could part with.

It's a V12 6.0 convertible so one of the late models.

Very excited!

Hope to move into this forum soon and meet all the cats here.

I'll keep you all updated on the buying process, I might need some advice along the way, I've been reading the XJS book on jag lovers to get in the loop on this beautiful model of jag

 

Well done Harry.

Much sort after model.

Only a handful in this country, very rare.

 

Sounds like a good investment. Enjoy.

 

Haha hopefully it all works out. Does anyone know how many of this model were made?

2 + 2 model, my research says about 1700?

Does that seem right?

Also with this little amount of info does anyone have any idea on the rough price of one of these?

So I have some background when bargaining.

 

Hi Harry

We don't have much to go on, so how about some Pics.

But I would start at $7,000 and go from there.

 

Harry, Where are you located, and how many miles are on the car?

 

Unfortunately I'm a little stuck for photos and milage at the moment, I'm assuming around 100000km and is pretty good nick, this fellow wouldn't have a bad one, he brought it to collect but is having to put with it.

I'm in new Zealand.

 

There's a 94 coupe 6ltr etc etc, with 14000kms on it for $90k on Carsales.

What it actually sells for, who knows.

But OZ and NZ cars a crazy high compared to the ROW.

 

Harry
According to the figures I have, only 149 6 litre convertibles were made, with a possibility that of another 682 XJRS 6 litre cars 50 of these 682 might have been convertibles. So not more than 199 of them max.
Greg

 

For New Zealand I would be of no help. I see the pricing on these as between 20K and 30K USD in the US. and about the same in GBP terms in the UK. In Europe though I have seen pricing twice that in the US. I have a '94 6L V12 2+2 Convertible, and am extremely happy with all aspects.

 

I want to move there!!!

 

When it comes to pricing on the XJS three things seem to be the biggest factors on pricing : Condition, Miles and Location.

Location is the biggest wildcard because in North America a low mileage gem might go for $15K to $20K but in England double that and Australia maybe as much as triple. I would assume New Zealand pricing would be close to Australian pricing but that is just an assumption.

The 6.0 is one of the most sought after and rarest so that comes into play when looking at value ( price ).

 

Well that's a lot less than want I found, I was counting only the 2 + 2 convertibles, where do you're numbers come from?

Thanks all for the replies, I'll take them all into account!

 

harry
The majority of facelift convertibles were 6 cylinder 4 litre cars. These figures come from a book by Nigel Thorley, editor of the JEC mag, and an expert on this sort of thing. I am sure he got them from jaguar records. There were 17,020 V12 convertibles made (not including the possible 50 XJRS I mentioned earlier). Of these the vast majority were pre-facelifts or facelift 5.3 litres cars: 13,197+3,674 (plus 149 = 17,020).
By contrast, in total 13,926 6 cylinder convertibles were made.
Greg

 

I see, nice work, could I grab the name of that book? I'll need some proof of the rarity of this car when I go to register it.

Or even better, a reference to the information would be great! Haha

 

Harry
The book is seemingly out of print but copies can be had easily enough:
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/S...9606858-_-used


It's ISBN number is ISBN 1 85960 685 7
The figures are from Appendix A Page 164
Greg

 

Guys
In case anyone is interested, attached is a copy of a note I made, taken from Nigel Thorley's book Appendix A, giving a breakdown of the entire XJS production numbers, by model. The change point from pre HE, to HE to facelift models was not given in the book (or at least not clearly enough for me to follow!). However, I may be right in saying that ALL Four Litre 6 cylinder cars were facelifts, and that NO V12 Cabriolet cars were facelifts, and that ALL 6 litre cars were facelifts. Marque experts like PJTS1 may well have more or better info.
Greg

 

This is from another Forum....

"Last September in Browns Lane, Coventry I got a pamphlet about XJSs with
slightly different numbers
(so definitely this shouldn't be "an opinion", you can't get more "official"
than this) :
6.0 V12 convertible grand total of 81
- - 11 in 1992
- - 31 in 1993
- - 28 in 1994
- - 11 in 1995
However, in this pamphlet it's also indicated a grand total production for
all XJSs of 115,330"

94 XJS 6.0 | Jaguar Clubs of North America

 

81 wow, now that's rare haha.

Hmm is it possible that there were a lot more of the 2 + 2 convertibles manufactured?

Seeing as there is alot of different numbers?

I remember watching a video where the guy said that there were a lot more of the 2 + 2 models.

Thanks for uploading that spreadsheet! Very helpful.

 

Opps sorry posted here by mistake