And I thought it wasn't possible to tow with an XK.




German registered motorhome, seen in the car park here in southern Spain.

 

Looks like a good time, XK8 vert, motorcycle and a motor home, touring Europe. Doesn't get much better than that!

 

You almost gave me a stroke and a LOUD NOOOO!!!!, when you said towing with an XK8. I enjoy your humor......Thanks for the laugh......Mike

 

Wait? so we can't tow our car? as in stuck on the road and we can't tow it? am I missing something or just misunderstood your comment? :-)

 

Haha, .... WHY?! I used to tow a three rail motorcycle trailer carrying a really heavy BMW R100RS with, ..... get this, ..... a 1500cc Fiat X-1/9!

And you think our 300 and 400 HP carriages can't do what my little gumba-car could.

Of course, we will all go to Hell for it. (I hear St. Pete is an real fan of our coupes - lol)

Ciao & Enjoy!

 

I tow with my x type and xjr but my xk is simply a bit too low to put a hitch on.

 

I can't find the thread in the search feature but I recall from a few years back a forum member towed a fairly large boat with his XK for quite a long distance with no problem.

 

You misunderstood. They were joking around about using the XK to tow something, not being towed on a trailer.

 

Aaah.....gotcha!! yeaah that would be an abomination!!

 

 

Glad you all enjoyed the photo. That must be some sort of custom made tow hitch on the last photo - certainly wouldn't be possible to homologate something like that here in Spain, they have very strict rules on towbars and trailers.

I looked into this years ago to see if I could tow my 16ft speed boat, but Jaguar said it couldn't be done.

 

Curtiss makes a hitch that fits the early XK8/XKR and can be made to fit later ones too. Getting it homologated to pull something this size, would probably be impossible.

 

The remarkable thing about this photo to me, aside from the fact that he found a way to put a hitch on his car that could tow a boat this size is how the rear of the car shows almost no effect from the weight. Clearly, that is because he has a dual axle trailer so that the trailer itself can bear almost all of the weight, but still, there is usually close to or more than a hundred pounds of tongue weight that, bearing down on the extended hitch on the car, usually pulls the rear end down. This car shows almost no effect whatsoever.

 

I remember that photo from the old thread, OP said he doesn't actualy tow that boat with his XK. was heading to a show and had a friend with a truck tow the boat, he just hooks it up for show and grins at the events.

 

About 20 yrs ago I used to tow a 20ft sports boat with my XJS V12 - biggest problem was remembering it was there given the torque on the V12.