Why do you buy cars that you really shouldn't? For me I just can't resist a pretty Jaguar. Even though I had no place to put it, I just had to have it. My XKR and Mercedes say in the garage. Worry about what to do with it when I got it. It needs a few minor

things that I will take care of in time. I was lucky to find storage for the winter and now I love driving it. It's my second XJS. Sold the first one. This one is better. I remember when that body style came out and I thought It was almost as beautiful as the XKE. Back then I never thought I would be able to own one. Lucky me.

 

Nice looking car. Glad your enjoying it.

 

The very question I cannot answer - also needs to be aligned to 'why can't I sell a car I don't use' -

Bought the SV8 because - I like comfy and powerful cars and had nothing but hassle with supercars after finally deciding age / arthritis were kind of mutually exclusive - a totally emotional choice with zero common sense

Bought the XJS - a totally emotional and impulse decision with zero common sense applied - had I been realistic and understood what I was committing to I probably would have passed it by - hooked now and in too deep to back out.
I have two Scimitar SST's - both very rare (a 1.8 Turbo and a 1.4 CVH) - bought one out of curiosity, bought the second to keep it out of the scrapyard.
I have a Scimitar Sabre that is the only one of its kind and was built specifrically for the company owner at the time
I also have a Reliant Kitten DL Estate - also crazy rare and bought as a one owner car from a family member for sentimental reasons.

The Sabre was taken off the road 3 years ago for suspension work and life / parts availability got in the way, it starts but is now a total refurb job - and there's an XJS in the way.
Both SST's were off the road when purchased, the Kitten hasn't turned a wheel and is mostly stripped for paint and repair due to osmotic damage of fibreglass - one of the SST's also has this problem.

I have no common sense or logical reason, I struggle to justify to myself sometimes

 

OMG yes. I bought the XJ8 because my spinal cord was hurting and was going to have to quit using my pickup truck as a daily driver. I figured I'd buy a "cheap" used luxury car to tool around in while I healed up. It was just supposed to be temporary. Well, the surgery was a bust and I never went back to the pickup truck, but then I couldn't bring myself to sell the truck either. I still needed a truck once in a while. By 120K miles and 17 years old, the XJ8 was getting to where it needed quite a bit of work and I knew that no matter how much I did, it'd still be 98% 17+ year old parts and that it was time to "update". That's when the XF came along. But I had fallen in love with the XJ8 and so I spent the money to refresh it anyway. Now its just a weekend cruiser (well one weekend a month or so anyway).

But I have this long, long wish list of classic cars that I'd love to experience before I die (including multiple other Jaguar models) and not getting any younger, yet I have these "not yet classic" former daily drivers taking up limited shop space. I don't drive them as much as I should because its inconvenient to shuffle cars to get one out from the back of the shop or unstack what's on the lift. I can't even get started on my next planned restoration project because I've run out of space plus just keeping them all on the road takes up most of my time.

Somebody stop me! I'm even cooking up a plan to get another "daily driver". I'm losing my downtown parking garage in January as my office relocates. I can't seem to bear the thought of parking the XF out in the Texas sun during the day knowing that the leather dash would shrivel up like a raisin. So the logic being considered is to buy something that I could treat as a "beater", nothing too special, that could could be parked outside not only during the day, but that I could leave out on the driveway at night too. That way I could have yet another car without occupying any additional garage space. (I just don't know if I can pull off the whole "beater" philosophy as I'm so OCD.)

I'm afraid I'm on my way to becoming one of those hoarders you see on "Barn Find Hunters". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an "Autoholics Anonymous" of any kind for treatment. I really should sell the Jags and move on to the next brand and model on my wish list but its hard to even think of letting go. When I retire, I'm going to have to build a "barndominium" to support my habit.