Choosing to drive a Jaguar XK8 will be the most unique automobile experience for you. Valets park your car prominently--to reflect well on their restaurant! Hotels treat you with deference. Drivers look in their mirror and routinely pull over to let you by. There is something about those cat-like eyes and the posture of the car that commands their respect. There is a mystique to this car that I will definitely miss.
It adds value to your home just to have it parked in the foreground!
The fly-by-wire throttle linkage guarantees instantaneous response.
The J-shifter fits your hand like a glove. I wondered if I would miss shifting
manually. No, and neither will you. That Bimmer in your rear view mirror,
crowding your bumper? A quick liquid shift down and a punch of the throttle
and he's 10 car lengths back or more, just finishing his down shift, wondering
what happened. Amazingly, for a two-ton car with Jaguar's innovative 4L
AJ-V8 engine, I get over 22mpg on the highway and about 18 mpg around town.
You can relax while driving on side streets because the effortless, on-the-steering-wheel,
accurate cruise control holds your speed at 27 mph through all the local
neighborhood speed traps!
The car to which the term "riding on rails" refers? The Jaguar XK8. Its variable, speed-sensitive steering provides near 100% Ackerman geometry through turns. [I picked up this term while reading the factory's sales manual. In a turn, the left and right front wheels scribe circles of different diameters. As a result, the tires need to point at slightly different angles in order to accurately trace the circle and yet still return to parallel alignment when the car is traveling straight ahead.] Moving through traffic has never been easier. The last I checked, only six cars in the world were faster through the slalom--and almost all cost 2-4 times as much! Everything about this car is effortless and secure, at any speed, in any maneuver. Responsive handling combines with precise, NACB [No Adjust Car Build] manufacturing methods to deliver a car with an exceptionally quiet and smooth ride.
This car epitomizes grace. It still draws looks and will for many, many years. The interior will still smell like fresh leather. The woodwork will still gleam. My wife loves how the interior cabin, on a cold winter day, retains warmth to welcome you after an hour or more of shopping. Clear, Stongard protection is recommended to cover the front of the car, headlights, back of the mirrors, edge of doors, and inside of the wheel openings. [I would advise you to not buy a Jaguar XK8 without this!] The car above is in the most complex of the Jaguar colors: topaz. The advantage of this color is this: A Jaguar dressed in topaz is still a graceful beauty, even when covered with dust!
Are you ready to enjoy this car's pleasures and presence? Search www.cars.com and www.autotrader.com and you will find 5-6 year old cars with less than 24,000 miles on them, currently in the $25K range. Most credit unions will finance such cars with less mileage that that as new cars, saving you percentage points on your loan! Obviously, these cars have many more miles left in them. This amounts to a savings of over $50,000 as compared to buying a Jaguar XK8 off a dealer's showroom floor. No better value exists, in my point of view, automotively. Someday, once again, I anticipate the pleasure of driving one again.
