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2026. 10. 24. 작업

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A lovely car. I'll be following any updates.

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ducnick said: GeniusOfLove said: shalmaneser said: These definitely sat at the bottom of their depreciation curve for a fair old time but it does feel like they are having a renaissance. Lovely old thing.I've been hearing for 20 years how the XJS is about to rebound, but you needed £7k to get into a clean usable 4.0 back in 2006 and you need £7k to get into a clean usable 4.0 today.You see the specialists asking £20k+ for 6 litre convertibles but even they do £15k at auction. I've watched my old XJR-S get sold again for no more than I bought and sold it for nearly a decade ago too.It's a shame really because it means many don't get the care they need, and they really are very special cars and entirely usable as a daily even now.That s the one I would really want. My ideal xjs would be a late Jaguar sport xjrs with a zf8hp transmission swap and modern engine management. - both of which are do-able and would make it a seriously quick carI've thought about that in terms of my dream garage a lot (obviously) and can't decide if I'd rather a manual or ZF8 converted one or if that would spoil the period charm and the old 3 speed turd-o-st needs to stay, there was something very enjoyable about locking that XJR-S into 2nd gear and treating it as a one gear car from a standstill to well into triple digits.I find myself becoming less and less focussed on the performance of older "performance" cars and more on the personality and difference - if going fast is the goal then you can lease an electric something or the other for 50p a week that'll keep an XJ220 honest, you're wasting your time chasing raw performance with old cars, better to enjoy their period crapness/character, and it's hard to find a usable classic with more character than an XJS.Edited by GeniusOfLove on Monday 3rd August 13:23