Working in Palos Verdes for the last 2 days I kept seeing pristine examples of Xk8's and XKR's driving around, coupes and convertibles alike. I saw about 10 of them in the 48 hours. Then on my way home to the valley, late this afternoon, two more beautiful convertibles "accompanied" me along the 405 freeway, one of which, a gorgeous BRG example even got off at my exit. You certainly see XK's on a regular basis here in So Cal, but this was extraordinary.

 

Maybe an event?

 

The only event is "it's LA baby". I used to live in S. Orange County (Dana Point). And you see stunning cars every day. Leaving church we used to joke about how you would know which black Bentley was yours. Probably the only place I have ever been with more exotics is Dubai where if you buy a condo you get a free Lamborgini tossed in with the deal (really true)!

 

Don't you mean "free"?

 

HaHa "free" after you buy a $3M condo! What the heck are we doing up at this hour?

 

I'm in the Tokyo airport, what's your excuse?

 

Drinking one gallon of crummy stuff for a not so fun "probing" in a few hours. I'd rather be in Tokyo. I feel like I've been eating bad sushi!

 

Doesn't sound like a good time. Hang in there.

 

Thanks. With any luck my plan is to be in Napa by this afternoon. Top down, music up!

 

Had three in my work-place car park today: a red 4-litre XKR a black 4.2 and mine. The security guard thought there was a convention of owners...

Best wishes, Colin

 

Palos Verdes is quite wealthy. =)

Jag territory.

 

Funny how that happens. I will go days/weeks without seeing another one, then BAM! I see half a dozen in a day.

And wouldn't that be a pride of Jags?

 

Apparently, it would be a Jamboree of Jaguars.

What is a group of jaguars called
What is a group of jaguars called?

In: Cougars, Mountain Lions, and Pumas [Edit categories]


Answer:
a group of jaguars is called a "jamboree."




Did we answer your question?

Also, I was surprised to find out that there were Jaguars in the USA as recently as 2011.

Jaguar in the United States

The only extant cat native to North America that roars,[77] the jaguar was recorded as an animal of the Americas by Thomas Jefferson in 1799.[78] There are multiple zoological reports of jaguar in California, two as far north as Monterey in 1814 (Langsdorff) and 1826 (Beechey).[79] The coastal Diegueño (Kumeyaay people) of San Diego and Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs had words for jaguar and the cats persisted there until about 1860.[80] The only recorded description of an active jaguar den with breeding adults and kittens in the U.S. was in the Tehachapi Mountains of California prior to 1860.[79] In 1843, Rufus Sage, an explorer and experienced observer recorded jaguar present on the headwaters of the North Platte River 30–50 miles north of Long's Peak in Colorado. Cabot's 1544 map has a drawing of jaguar ranging over the Pennsylvania and Ohio valleys. Historically, the jaguar was recorded in far eastern Texas, and the northern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. However, since the 1940s, the jaguar has been limited to the southern parts of these states. Although less reliable than zoological records, native American artefacts with possible jaguar motifs range from the Pacific Northwest to Pennsylvania and Florida.[81]
Jaguars were rapidly eliminated by Anglo-Americans in the United States. The last female jaguar in the United States was shot by a hunter in Arizona's White Mountains in 1963. Arizona outlawed jaguar hunting in 1969, but by then no females remained and over the next 25 years only two male jaguars were found (and killed) in Arizona. Then in 1996, Warner Glenn, a rancher and hunting guide from Douglas, Arizona, came across a jaguar in the Peloncillo Mountains and became a jaguar researcher, placing webcams which recorded four more Arizona jaguars.[82] None of the other four male jaguars sighted in Arizona in the last 15 years have been seen since 2006.[83] Then, in 2009, a male jaguar named Macho B, died shortly after being radio-collared by Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) officials in 2009. In the Macho B incident, a former AGFD subcontractor pleaded guilty to violating the endangered species act for trapping the cat and a Game and Fish employee was fired for lying to federal investigators.[77] In 2011, a 200-pound male jaguar was photographed near Cochise in southern Arizona by a hunter after being treed by his dogs (the animal left the scene unharmed). A second 2011 sighting of an Arizona jaguar was reported by a Homeland Security border pilot in June 2011, and conservation researchers sighted two jaguars within 30 miles of the Mexico/U.S. border in 2010.[77] In September 2012, a jaguar was photographed in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona, the second such sighting in this region in two years.[84] Apparently this jaguar has been photographed numerous times over the past nine months through June, 2013.[85]
Legal action by the Center for Biological Diversity led to federal listing of the cat on the endangered species list in 1997. However, on January 7, 2008, George W. Bush appointee H. Dale Hall, Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), signed a recommendation to abandon jaguar recovery as a federal goal under the Endangered Species Act. Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.[86] In 2010, the Obama Administration reversed the Bush Administration policy and pledged to protect "critical habitat" and draft a recovery plan for the species. The USFWS was ultimately ordered by the court to develop a jaguar recovery plan and designate critical habitat for the cats.[77] On August 20, 2012 USFWS proposed setting aside 838,232 acres in Arizona and New Mexico—an area larger than Rhode Island—as critical jaguar habitat.[87]

 

Regarding our vintage steel-bodied XK8/XKR, there were a few places in California where you would be more likely to see these such as Newport Beach area (and other beach cities like Laguna), places like Palos Verdes, and areas like Marin County in northern California. They were actually pretty rare in the Los Angeles area whereas there were always a plethora of BMW's, Mercedes, and naturally Porsche.

I have noticed that things have changed with the later aluminum-bodied XK. While still not as plentiful as the other marques mentioned, they are not nearly as uncommon as the XK8/XKR were.

Doug

 

I think that multiple Jaguars together should be called "a murder of Jags"....

 

already aken wih a murder of crows

 

Who knew? I like jamboree better than pride. Has a nice alliterative ring to it. I have heard people use "prowl" too.

 

All those recent sightings in Arizona are very close to Tucson.

Jeff In Tucson and I can both vouch for a double sighting right in town a couple of weeks ago.

Of course one roars with much more authority than the other...

 

Yeah, nothing for months and then two black XKR convertibles like mine on one lunch break! What the... I almost got rid on the spot.

 

Agree 100%. Bought our BRG 1999 from an original owner who lived in this area. One female driver, 29k miles in 14 years. Drove it to the desert occasionally, always garaged. Just enough miles to keep the seals supple, but we did replace all of the cooling hoses at the 30k service event. Enjoy this car so much!