Regular Car Reviews: 1987 Jaguar XJ6
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- A car so British, it apologizes for being on time. This is a car for looking like old money. When we were filming this, a lookie-loo walked up to the Jag and us..and said: "Do you have any Grey Poupon?" For real.
To quote Jeremy Clarkson, every Jaguar makes for the owner to be caddish.
A man who goes on a honeymoon and spends dinner flirting with the waitress...but its okay because he's got a Jaaaaaaaaaag
Judd Kramer jaaaaaag
hey...i resemble that remark! ;--)
🤣😂
"I'm sorry I ran over your dog in my Jaaaaaag".
It's the man that goes to jail, but not for murder, he goes to jail because he committed tax evasion
I own a 1985 xj6 Sovereign and in 9 years of motoring it has never broken down on the road. It does not chew tires nor leak or burn oil. I get 4 years out of a set of Michelin tires. There are many myths told about these cars but if they are looked after and not abused they are very reliable and the engine almost bulletproof. When we bought the Jaguar it had 160,000 Km on it and now has 240,000 KM. some parts have needed replacement, they are as follows:
Fuel pump at 180,000KM / 23 years old.
Coil at 190,000 / 24 years old.
Starter motor at 200,000 / 26 years old.
Rear brake calipers at 220,000 / 27 years old.
Remember these parts were the original ones and lasted longer than any other car I have owned before they needed replacing.
The head has never been off and only minor electrics have played up.
The transmission for example has only had a fluid change once in 30 years and changes much better than our 2005 Honda v6 Luxury which has only done 130,000 KM.
The jaguar seats are much better than the Honda too as is the steering!
Don't knock these Jaguars they are made with real leather Connolly hides as used on Rolls Royce s and feature stainless steel side window surrounds not chrome which are much more expensive to make than chrome. The xj6 uses an E type sub frame including in board brakes because it was still the best rolling chassis in the World in 1985. Jaguar used the XK engine from 1948 until 1987 with modifications such as fuel injection in the early 1980's. In 1948 the Jaguar XK 120 could reach a top speed of 120 MPH with the XK 3.4 motor in it. The later engines became 3.8 and then 4.2. Dam well built motor car the xj6.
Paul David Cross I’m driving a XJ6 runs like a beauty previous owner had taken care of it like it was his child. I’m pretty confident in the cars engine it does need a cleaning of the engine and a lot of electrical loving radio and climate control being the number 1 priority I’ve been thinking hat it has to be my blower motor that is broken but I’m crossing my fingers that it’s he relay that needs replacement since the last owner gave me a box of spares and had a new relay inside of it
All in all I love that car and knew that it had to be my first car
Lol, "Look a the way the front of this car is designed. It looks... down on you, even when it's *below* you". Awesome.
So much passion, I was brought to tears.
I've owned my '83 XJ6 for 20 years now and still love it. Look after them and they are solid and reliable.
I don't know why anyone thinks these cars wear tires any faster than any other car, they shouldn't. Get the tracking and wheel geometry checked - just like any other car.
They accelerate well enough to keep up with modern traffic with four passengers. It's not a Ferrari so don't expect it to handle like one.
I know those (heavy!) wire wheels were fashionable in the USA but they don't do the car any favours. Jaguar's original alloy wheels looked much better on them.
Watching your Jag among other modern cars in your film clips I still prefer the Jag.
I seriously can't tell what's better. The fact I actually got a decent review, or that your fucking hilarious....best thing I've ever seen
To quote Jeremy clarkson, it's pronounced how it's spelt. Jaagwaar?
If they ever review a modern jag and make the brit jokes, they're wrong
Jeremy Clarkson says it's a Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggh.
Everything ashens said about youtube comments is becoming true
Jaaaaag
Because English people *always pronounce things the way they're spelled* amirite?
You forgot the 3.4, unless you guys didn't get them over there. I had a 3.4 in poverty specification with cloth seats, it was a first year production model series 3 (1979) here in the UK back in the early 90s & my everlasting memory of it was that you couldn't get a cassette out of the stereo when the transmission shifter was in park lol. Loved the "harrumph" reference BTW, very "Family Guy" ;-)
As an ex PA-triot I love the references to PA that show up in your videos. Bud Dwyer...
Have owned one of these since 1990. Still going strong. Don't believe everything this dude tells you. Best car I have ever owned.
One of these in British racing green with those wire wheels + faux knock offs = one of the sexiest looking rides on the planet. Maybe LS swap it for reliability. ..although I do prefer the sound of a healthy straight 6 engine.
Thank God for the LS truck motors for revival of these BOATS.
"He gave up on purity rings after his first taste of second base" lmao!
Can I trust a UA-camr review on a car when he can't even get the size of the engines right? The Series III did not come with the 2.8. It came with 3.4, 4.2, or 5.3. Have to take his opinion of the car with a grain of salt
I now own one. Loving it!
No mention of Edward Woodward, The Equalizer, or Stewart Copeland's music? I am disappoint.
Did anyone notice they spelled reviews wrong in the beginning?
is this car worth upgrading/modding i really want to know
Yeeeaah, but my 97’ looks extremely close to the 87’ and it’s a monster!!!! All of the luxury without the problems. A Jaaaaaag that still looks down on you! Great video!
Acceleration ? Oh you'll want the V12 for that. 110 in 2nd. 144 in top. 16mpg urban. Still, if you can afford to buy one, you won't be worried about the fuel consumption. Top tip. The rear brakes are a bastard to fix. Pay someone else to do it unless you have workshop facilities.
Your figures are about right. Workshop for rear brakes? My workshop is my front drive. I dropped the rear suspension which is the real way it was designed to be worked on. I'm 73 and do my own maintenance on my mighty Jaguar.
It is a beautiful car!!
To the British people furiously taking to the comments to correct the pronunciation, we Americans know it's pronounced "Jag-u-ar" (or at least most car guys do). The problem is that when you pronounce Jaguar in that way, in conjunction with our American accent, you just end up sounding like some dopey moron trying hard to imitate a British accent, but failing. So we choose to carry on mangling the pronunciation instead. It's better this way. Trust us.
Agreed. I often want to pronounce it correctly though it would just be silly and sound ridiculous. It would be like talking in a thick southern accent only to call an 18 wheeler a lorry.
good on you guys now can you figure out how to say Edinburgh properly now it is not edin-burg or edin-bro or edin-burrow it is pronounced ed-in-bra
The correct pronunciation is "yagwar". The British pronounce all words the English way, and give no regard to the word's origin or true pronunciation. The have a particular disregard of anything Iberian or Native American, as we see with Jaguar.
Gavin Irvine "Embra" and with that other Scottish city, Glasga.
Leap Of Faith no one pronounces it Glasga...... "embra" are you Indian ?... Glasgow its only locally called "glesga" if you are a bam or talking among friends ....... have you been watching still game ?
"It doesn't accelerate... It 'advances'." Jesus Christ
+John Patch It is true.
+John Patch it gets 18 HARGUMMPS per gallon.
+John Patch My favourite line in this review.
I own an '84 XJ6, and this is sooo true. You don't feel any of the acceleration due to the gear ratio of the transmission and the fact that both rear wheels have two shocks each. You just press the pedal and somehow you reach highway speeds.
Thanks for the laugh John. I needed that. By the way, I just purchased an 87' Jaguar. It starts and drives. So there's that. 😂
30 years old and it still looks better than any new jaguar
How very true !
For that matter, you would be hard pressed to find any new car that looks better.
that iteration came out in 1979, which was a subtle restyle of the previous series long-wheel base model from 1974.
Yes, it was a refinement of an originally beautiful design.
This car was in the Here I go Again by Whitesnake music video
I like that car very much but are you sure the current XJ isn't better looking?
Do you own a Jaguar? No, I own a Jaaaaaag.
I approve of this refrence
JJJJJJJJJJJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
+JustaKoreanGuy sorry honey you'll have to take care of this, I need to take care of the
jaaaaaaaag.
Rather a Jaaaaaaaag than a Staaaaaaaag.
I'd rather have the Stag. With the original v8 engine and a Supergill Rad....
The most impressive thing about this review is that the Jag actually ran the entire time.
Especially the v12
Especially the v12
Now 7 years later the question is how many times has it broke down and have they gave up yet.
Yeah, good mechanics are hard to find.
I’ve had 5 jaguars and they have been generally very reliable.
$12,000 ENGINE REBUILD SOOOOOOOOOOOON applies here too I figure.
hey it's that guy with a fast S80, hi :D
**blushes** i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/345/169/bc7.png
As in a Volvo S80? That's awesome! Im guessing it's AWD right?
And people say the $3,000 rebuild of a rotary is expencive
Yeah I really like how you modded your car, when Matt floored it and the auto downshifted it made a wicked sound :3
I know he said no but I want one
Enjoy the repair bills .
I’d prefer the coupe
I have a ‘78 series 2. The only thing I can criticise about this review is he didn’t say “no” to owning one enough times at the end.
@@jackroutledge352 I have an '88 XJ-S 3.6, and I bought it AFTER watching this video. I guess if he'd said "no" a few more times, I might never have learned how much one can spend having specialists rebuild Jag inboard rear brakes...
Welp I’m buying one🤷🏻♂️what else to do in this human world
my grandmother owned one always loved it....it felt so British and it still had that fresh new car smell. My grandma always went to Costco with me and my sister. Though she's no longer with us I still remember her showing me how to work on it and drive it .
your g-ma sounds badass
God bless your grandma that lovely lady.
"It looks down on you, even when it's below you". Well, it is a cat.
i want one of these now, its a massive car, silent, heavy, elegant, classic, its like an old ghost in the streets.
+caspar politman See my video, old cars and certainly Jag's have a lot of work but after that you get quality.
+caspar politman I would not call them big. Certainly not in the US.
Its low and long, but not massive.
Lmao
- he isn't talking about needed cars though is he? He's talking about the car in the video numb nuts.
One of the most beautiful cars ever built.
Yes it is. Designed by world renowned Italian car designer Pininfarina.
It has received hundreds of such accolades by auto reviewers, it is a timeless work of art.
This design was so revered, that Jaguar was even unwilling to make any changes, afraid they would be spoiling perfection !
It is a pleasure to drive and look at, it puts smiles on peoples faces as they see it passing by.
Finally something to do at 4 in the morning
i feel you bro... you're not the only one
Lmao I feel you. Got school in 3 hours
Beat you guys ! at working at 1 in the morning watch this BAM!
Colin Bolger I've got a whole week left
dude i said the exact same thing lol
Even though you are above it , it somehow still looks down upon you lol
Hot Rod Magazine's soultion to engine problems:
Blueprint V8 Crate engine with a blower.
Valiant Weaver ROADKILL!!!!!!
You just need a hood delete option as well! Along with hourly car washes to cool it down...
I've owned a 1985 series 3 jx6 sovereign for 9 years and its never left us on the side of the road, it leaks virtually no oil and it burns virtually no oil. When purchased it had 160,000 KM on it now she has 238,000 KM and in the 9 years she has had a coil, starter motor, rear brake calipers, thermo fan and thats it , still not had the head off. These cars are very well made and feature the same Connolly hide that is used in Rolls Royce and the side window surrounds are not chrome they are stainless steel. Much of the body is finished by hand such as the rear end above the tail lights. The rear end is the same used in the E type jaguar including the diff, 4 shockers and springs and the front end featured anti dive technology. The xj6 chassis was considered to be the best rolling chassis in the World at the time. Don't be too quick to knock these cars as they are far superior to the modern ones built today at least in relation to quality. It's true that todays cars are faster , lighter and safer but they are built 30 years later. If you want a fair comparison to a modern car then look at the features on a late model Jaguar.many of the ideas used on modern cars emanate directly from the Jaguar xj6 which featured electric front seats, cruise control, 4 wheel disc brakes, two master cylinders one for front and one for the back. They had crumple zones front and rear too. They were and still are a great drive although lacking the airbags etc found in new cars. Every time I drive the more modern cars I fell like I am in a plastic box whereas in the Jaguar even after 9 years you always feel like you are sitting in a well made car with the leather and the real Burr Walnut and wool carpets. Can't see us selling "Bessie" anytime soon.
Paul David Cross thats a 35 year old car, lets not forget. This guy is reviewing a similarly aged car, and complains about reliability. Some modern Mercs won't get to 5 years without major and very expensive work needed.
Now that's the review we should have got.
Spot on... Enjoy 🙂👍
@@victordenola5068 i have just aquired one, which performs beautifully, not to daily drive it just to occasionally enjoy it, a beautiful car.
Does it have 2 fuel tanks, or is it just that you can refuel from both sides?
Cyberwast3 Two separate tanks!
that button at 5:49 swaps which tank you are drawing from. and yeah you're gonna need both.
Cyberwast3 2 tanks just like my uncle's F250!
I can imagine if you were careful and actually drove like a chauffeur (and had the 2 litre) you would easily break 25mpg (almost 30 mpg in UK terms). That's not actually that much worse than big premium sedans nowadays, which is reassuring and faintly worrying in equal measure.
yep! My grandmother's '72 XJ6 Series I has twin tanks. Handy, because you can only get 8mpg out of that 4.2 litre lump!
Awesome :D Didn't expect a Jag on RCR ever.
I have a 1990 XJ series 4 (XJ40) with the 4.0 AJ6. Bought it for €500 with a few friends to do a banger rally. They fixed a lot of the problems in the series 4, although it still has it's issues, like a very sensitive hydropneumatic suspension system that has leaked gallons of scary green fluid all over my poor town so far. But it only consumes tires when you do burnouts, it's properly fast, it has kinda almost decent gas mileage on the highways, the gearbox is awesome, all the electric systems work on our cheap shitty one, so I assume they're good, and it just looks more stunning than anything else you can get for the price. Although the series 3 does look better.
But most important of all, it allows me to smash my obnoxious Jaguar keychain and keys on the table and say I have a Jaaaaaaaag. It indeed makes people think I'm rich, even though it cost me less than your average VW Golf. Should you own a Jaguar? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Do it.
I recently bought a xj6 1987 for $400. there were no back struts at all when I got it sp the tires were out but it’s engine ran so I’m happy.
"kinda almost decent gas mileage" xD
Electrics supplied by Lucas, the Prince of Darkness.
jospi2 😂😂
They aren’t that bad. There are plenty of modern vehicles with less reliable electrical systems(looking at you Chrysler.)
Don't forget a black XJ6 was the car chosen for Edward Woodwards "Robert McCall" in the original series of "The Equalizer"...
I remember my dad back in the '70s getting to drive a friends Daimler DoubleSix (the V12, plusher Daimler version of this car.) His friend told him to take it on the motorway, then put a card over the speedo and told my dad to take it up to what he thought was 70 mph (my dad had a Rover P6 2000TC which wasn't a slow or unrefined car for the time) so my dad did so and said when he thought they were at 70. His friend took the card away, and the speed was 125 mph. The XJ6 really did utterly change what a prestige car was when it was launched back in the late '60s. Without it there would be no BMWs as we know them, no high spec Mercs, no Lexus, prestige cars would still be big, heavy and ponderous because that's what they always had been...
1983 XJ6 Vanden Plas was my 1st car. Wore the backseat out.
0-60... sure. 60-125? Fuuuuck yeah! That's where her speed was. Expensive to keep in the road!
Yeah the auto box and the long first kills the 0-60 but woahhhh the way it gets from 60-120 is effortless.
Left hand drive? Not British enough
True
The fact that you said no one should ever own one...... makes me want to own one.
+Logan McBride The guy in the video has driven the Jag for a bit, studied all the complaints about the car and made a very typical video for someone who does not know much about cars or old cars in general.
good for you, and they are still around quite cheap if you look, i dont expect that to last.
What's with the German numberplate on the front with "GB" written on it?
KingOfCoconuts its not just for german cars but for all euro cars (well this one is because of the european flag on the left of it)
Will Dupe He means the plate looks German. It has the circles at the centre of the plate, below where the hyphen is. You don't really see that outside of Germany.
A UK number plate would be considered illegal if it looked anything like it.
snakeeater337 oh I see thanks for enlighting me mate !
Different states have different rules on license plates
Some states require one on the rear and front bumpers other states only require the rear
So you can put whatever silly fake plate on the front in those states
Bluith Yep. PA in their case. Rear Plates only. Not many US States actually do that anymore.
I woke up to poop and was treated with this! Lifes simple pleasures.
All I can think of is the car from Shaun of the Dead.
that's the only jag id ever wanna own for that reason.
This was so great - I own both an '87 and an '84 XJ6. While the '87 is for parts, the '84 has a 350 Chevy V8 out of an '88 IROC Camaro. Two great tastes that taste great together! Another spot-on review, particularly the "Look Rich" part. People almost fall over when I tell them the car cost $2300 from Craigslist. It looks gorgeous. Of course, most of the electrical items didn't work on it when purchased, and the heavy slab of wood known as the glove-compartment door still flies open unexpectedly, but all is excused because Jaguar.
"A car so British, it apologizes for being on time." Isn't that more of a Canadian thing? Because we Canadians apologize for everything. Everything.
A tourist approached me one time asking for help. I went to point in a direction, and I hit a person with my arm and they apologized. #Canada
Haha, I associate it more with Canada, too.
Yeah that sounds like a British thing to do as well. I have British mates that apologise when I'M in the wrong about stuff. I guess Canada inherited it XD
listen to pink floyd 'Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way' engilsh are really polite.... stigmatically polite. Canadians are genuinely nice though.
I'm sorry you've cought one of our habbits over there in Canada
Canada is pretty British.
It doesn't matter how you say. I've had loads of mates who have owned Jags & it's like anything keep servicing it, it will be fine, the way I like to say it is Shaguar Yeah Baby Yeah
My dad was a mechanic in a jag dealership from mid 70s to the early 90s. He knows these things inside out and knows lots of stories of complicated repairs.
I NEED ONE NOW! Seriously, I've always had a soft spot for old XJs, even up to the early 2000 models. Glad to see one here.
Put a chevy V8 engine in one of those and you have a somewhat reliable and still gorgeous car.
it's not exclusively the engine that's a problem.
***** Hence the "somewhat" reliable mate.
Motortrend did
why do americans want to put their v8s in everything?
I'm American I'd rather do an R34 swap with twin 66 MM Garrets :D
1st car I ever bought when I was 16 was an 87 Jag XJ6 Vandan Plas I won on eBay. I had it literally 20 minutes before it spewed transmission fluid all over my father's driveway and he threatened to sue the seller for dealing with a minor and took it back. I was furious at the time. He had done me an incredible favor in hindsight.
ATCRyderX© so its the fault of an ancient car, not the dealer/seller for the condition at the point of sale?
I'd love one of these with the V12.
They're smooth. Not powerful. But smoooooooooooooooth.
Tedrick Leong Exactly what I would expect.
Tedrick Leong
It's smooth yes, and that is exactly the point of having V12 in these cars. Plus the V12 and 4liter I6 have similar gas mileage.
If you get one, just know you'll need $10+ engine rebuild... Quite often.
Zero 0 $10 is quite cheap ;) Hahah.
That thing is so gorgeous, it's a good thing that they're no so reliable... So that douches can't buy them, but only a true car guy would preserve these cars
Sometimes car guys are douches too tho.. 🤷♀️
@@juliettedemaso7588 yeah I was in my teenage years when I commented this, quickly realized that yes, car guys are very much douches😂
@@PatrickS9595 lol .. (except my dad of course)😉
@@juliettedemaso7588 yeah forgot to add the word *some* car guys can be douches😂
1987: The year that people thought they should probably tell Jaguar it wasn't 1967 anymore but no one actually got around to it.
+Googlefluff857 They had fuel injection and better MPG than most American engines, all around brake discs, a rear suspension that is still very desireable for racing, great handling and the seats are heaven. Sure, you can see a video and let your opinion be biased, or you can try one. If you don't like it, maybe you don't belong in a Jag, try a Volkswagen Golf.
***** That's because American cars in the '60s were still using 1930's and '40s technology :P I was really talking about the styling and overall philosophy more than anything (besides it being a joke), which I actually like about the car. But you're right that they're not really for me, and I do drive a Volkswagen.
Yep, the styling... :P
No,no,no...no no, no no NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Fell off my chair laughing.
Yeah what did he mean with all,those no. Was a Real no? Or a yes but no because I wanna be the one having? I,Didnt get it
It basically means there isnt a single thing right about this car.
elizabeth perez From a former owner of a version with the v12 - believe me, it was a REAL no. It was the fastest, most powerful, most comfortable, most classy car I ever owned, and every second of owning it was a never ending nightmare of parts failures and replacements and repairs and wondering what would die next.
+elizabeth perez Don't worry nobody knows what he's saying, make believe it's just somebody on crack.
This car (I have one) literally stop people in the streets, staring in aah, because of how beautiful it is.
311nonono
Yep, it's true. And then, every part of it fails, one after another. Have you had the electronics catch on fire yet? That was fun! They sure don't make 'em like british wiring harnesses from the 1980s. FOR A GOOD REASON.
These things are so tunable, I would so manual-swap this car and put a proper free-flowing exhaust on it - 300hp from a 4.2 is no bother, and it's a big long-stroke motor so it makes a ton of torque too. The looks are just sublime - the fluted bonnet/front wing thing over the headlights alone is a work of art.
For a daily driver, I'd probably swap in a turbo civic engine to the reliability and tunability
Lol, an American talking about outdated engineering on a British car.
Yes, the engine dates back to 1948 but even back then, it was DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder. Something the average American car didn't get until the late 90s and some still don't have now.
Joss Phaux sick and tired of this European superiority. Yea the Europeans make some great machines but the average car driven in Europe is nothing short of a total shitbox that you would have to register as a go kart here in America so please ehhhh gimme a break with the European this European that crap because you guys didn’t have power windows or air conditioning until you stole that idea from us sometime in the late 80s
And the engine is just as bulky and heavy as a V8 somehow. Runs as smoothly as a lawnmower.
OHV is newer technology than OHC believe it or not
4 valves per cylinder? Are you sure about that? I mean, google is right there so why not double check your facts....
QueensYankeesFan ROLLS ROYCE - A BRITTISH COMPANY Had power windows in the 60s! Check your facts next time you defend your poorly made GMC shiterra or AMC pacer
Americans pronounce Jaguar so differently to us Brits haha.. Jagwarrrrrrr, we pronounce it like Jag-you-ah! Great video by the way, beautiful car
I don't even understand it. It's not like American's couldn't pronounce Jag-you-ah (or even Jag-you-er), so why the Jagwaaaaaaarrrrrr? Even Jaguwarr would be better..
+ObiWanKeighobi Because if you're American and pronounce it that way you sound incredibly pretentious.
techmage89 Embrace the pretentiousness! I mean, look what it did to us. Wait.
guam, guava, guadalupe, guacamole
blame the spanish, got it
Not really a regular car, But holy shit that car is beautiful.
One of my friends had one of these. In it's final iteration, it had a Chevy small-block, a Saab T3 turbo on one bank, a Volvo turbo on the other, exhaust pipes sticking out from under the rear doors, a Holley blow-through carb, and heads off a 400, all of these things found in trips to junkyards. He'd also welded valve body on the autp transmission, and he had to select the gears manually. It made enough power that after the rear window popped out for the second time, he welded a V-brace there.
It still rode very nicely, although we had a very hard time getting people to race us.
My friends inherited one of these in high school and among the billion problems it ended up having, especially after one of them put it in a canal, my favorite is when the turned on the heat on a cold day, the rear window just... exploded. Poof. Gone. Not 30 seconds after they turned on the heat in Phoenix, Arizona the old Jag's rear window decided "nah."
"Boat level nickel and diming..."
"It likes to deny you things"
"It doesn't accelerate, it advances"
I'm still a little confused about whether or not I should own one. I wish you were a little bit clearer about that.
He can't he doesn't know how.
is it bad that im currently getting a jag as my first car...
Camo McSwiggins No im getting a benz😂😂
You want to become a mechanic?
I just bought a 1982 jaguar xj6 and it's my first car! It's more reliable than my dad's ford! Great car! Girls love it!
No, dont listen to idiots like the fool doing the review. Yes a Honda would be a more practical choice but......
My family had an affair with a '89 XJS V12 in the early 90's and let me tell you, those are amazing cars... when they are running properly. Being in Maine we had it frequently flatbed towed to the nearest dealership at the time (New Hampshire I think, about 3 hrs south) at which point we would go get it and by the time it got home, it would require another ride down there. You pretty much got to enjoy it driving home from the dealership, but DAMN that thing on the interstate was sublime.
Fantastic car. Loved mine, & it never "Harrumphed".
My parents had an '80 and an '84 Vanden Plas, both 4.2 sixes. They were beautiful and actually seemed pretty reliable. I got my license in '84 and flogged the shit out of both of them regularly, as you'd expect. They were seriously cool at the time.
I know a guy who had an old Jaguar. When he got it, he bragged how cheap it was to buy and how it was in good condition. Eventually the car drained all his cash of course.
Probably would have been cheaper to swap in a 2JZ or an LS3 :P
*$12,000 ENGINE REBUILD*
Argantonis
Did he die after that?
RegularCars does it again by making a regular and real world comparison to something we can all relate to by comparing this car to a Nintendo64 controller.
Budd Dwyer reference. Dark. I love it.
My mom had one of these when I was much younger. The kids at school did believe my family was rich when in reality that wasn't the case. It was such a nice car that I don't recall ever had an issue. I still miss it very much to this day.
Regular car reivews? ._.
Noticed that too.
Come to Ireland/England and Jaguars are quite common
You are a WIN RAR
RegularCars I prefer 7-zip because it supports multithreaded CPU's for compression and decompression, you know how that single threaded Phenom II performance is.
Where were you when the christmas special was reviewed? A Ferrari isn't a regular car, but I think that most people don't care about what car is being reviewed, as long as we can benefit the awesomeness of Mr Regular.
You summed it up. I bought one for 2k in San Francisco years ago. Easily put over 10k in repairs over the course of 5 years. Its great when it works and a real headache when its not and unfortunately it was always having trouble in one way or another.
The fact that the plate on the front is correct for mostly every other European country but England/Great Britain bothers me
Yes you should own one. I have being driving a 1986 xj6 for the last 20 years and it runs fine. in town I get around 16mpg and on the highway as long as I keep it under 80 25mpg
My dad picked up a xjs just for laughs, literally died when when mr. regular talked about the gas pedal. They don't do anything, even in the "sport" model with a v12, ohh well at least with all the mufflers it sounds like a golf cart which is pretty cool!
So, the end of this review kind of begs a rather obvious question: why not?
Wire wheels aren't original. I love these old jags. You can be so caddish in a jag & get away with it. "I'm so sorry, I ran over your nan... in my jaaaaaag". It's a car that makes me proud to be British, makes me want to eat crumpets & play cricket but rob a bank afterwards & put the swaaaaag in the Jaaaag. It's rule Britannia, it's a tudor cottage, it's a typical wet British summer, it's... now a brand owned by Indian car maker Tata because all Britain was good for in the seventies & eighties was sitting outside places of work & going on strike so now we don't make anything & blame the Polish because they can actually be arsed. I HATE being British!
LMAO I own a 88 XJ6, pretty good car.
Malik Martin so that means I can buy a 86 jaguar xj6 with confidence? There’s one for sale nearby for $5000 all black 😫🤧🤧
Malik Martin so that means I can buy a 86 jaguar xj6 with confidence? There’s one for sale nearby for $5000 all black 😫🤧🤧
Malik Martin so that means I can buy a 86 jaguar xj6 with confidence? There’s one for sale nearby for $5000 all black 😫🤧🤧
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I have owned three xj6 s as well as a 2003 X-Type with a 5-speed manual transmission. One of the most fun cause I ever drove and was actually cheap to fix it cost me 40 bucks to do a water pump. It actually cost more for a piece of Tupperware that held the fluid for the windshield. My first Jag was in 88 xj6 I paid $2,500 ran the car for about 4 years find me the transmission went so I put in another for $2,000. Then while I owned that car I bought an 84 xj6 that needed a transmission I paid $800 for the car there was absolutely gorgeous in and out again 2000 for the transmission, I paid a total a $4,000 for a paint job and the transmission drove the car for 4 years. Car got hit Insurance paid 3700. My last xj6 was in 1996 I paid $3,700 again it was Immaculate in and out. I drove the car for 4 years then gave it to my daughter we needed a car badly at the time. The car got hit the insurance company paid 4600. Then we pulled out the rear quarter panel and bonded it up no paint or anything and sold the car 3 days later for 2800. I would buy another Jaguar any day of the week they're good cars you just have to find the right one.
I have the 90 xjs V12 convertible coup. Worst car I have ever owned. Seriously people stay far away from jaguar unless you want a full time project car. These cars will never be "fixed" there is always something broken or leaking.
+Based God my 90 xjs coupe disagrees with you, :) i love it.
+Based God You messed up buying cheap or from a bad car dealer.
The series 3 Jaguar XJ6 did not come with a 2.8 litre straight six Jaguar XK engine, that engine was only used in the series 1 XJ6 and was replaced by a larger capacity 3.4 litre version of the same engine for the series 2 and series 3 cars, although it seems some very early series 2 cars for the UK market only were built using the reamaining 2.8 litre power plants. To be honest the 2.8 wasn't a great version of the classic XK engine and seemed to be prone to head gasket, cylinder head and piston problems that the larger versions generally didn't have. It was also rather underpowered for the XJ6, delivering decidedly leisurely performance in automatic form with fuel consumption hardly any better than the 4.2 which wasn't really appropriate for a marque which was irrevocably linked to the tag line "Grace, Space and Pace." In the series 3, at least for the UK market the engine line up was 3.4 litre straight six XK engine with twin carburettors, 4.2 litre with fuel injection and then there was the XJ12 with the mighty 5.3 litre V12 with fuel injection. I don't believe the 2.8 engine was ever offered in US specification cars and every 3.4 I'm aware of with US history seem to be European specification cars personally imported to the US so it may well be that the US only ever got the 4.2 litre XJ6 and the V12 XJ12, and there Daimler equivalents, as official US specification vehicles...
The only engine swap that wouldn't ruin the character of the car is a Northstar swap.
I get it! Because they both leak oil!
Gazdatronik It's when they're not leaking you have to worry lol
If you're going for maximum character it has to be an Alfa engine.
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Cant argue with that, but the alfa motor has no torque for a heavy bastard like that jag.
Incorrect !!
Series I only had the 2.8 engine, not a success,,,,
Series II and III had a 3.4 with dual SU carbs, no fuel injection.
Fun fact, Jaguar had to change its original name because of Hitler.
Pls Mr. Regular, do more Jaguars. Get an XJ12, get one of the new ones, get an Aston with a V12, get even a Morgan if you're lucky enough to find one which has it; hell, travel to Europe if you don't find them in US. Pretty sure if you approached the Queen's country's manufacturers, they wouldn't say no.
Just a grand show of misinformation.
The rear suspension with the inboard disk brakes was high tech when it was in the Mark 10.
It was high tech in the xj6, and it is still high tech today. That is why it is today used in many high performance hot rods such as the AC Cobra.
Your statement that the inboard disks are only useful for a light car is just plain nonsense and wrong, and exposes your general inability to put into proper context something you may have read off a website.
The higher the percent of the sprung weight versus the unsprung weight the more difficult is the ability of the suspension to keep the tire in constant contact with the road surface. This becomes very pronounced when taking fast corners on a choppy surface. A front engined car will have it's rear tail loose grip more so than the front where the engine weight is on the front tires. So hence the possibility of spinning the rear of the car out.
Regardless of the cars total weight, it's the distribution that matters. The XJ6's weight in the back is lighter than the front so choppy surfaces will impact the rear more than the front. The Inboard Brakes have a two fold effect by removing their weight from the sprung component and adding it to the unsprung weight component making the rear act more like the front as if it also had the weight of an engine on it. This gives it's handling in choppy corners more reminiscent to that of mid engined cars.
Normally only mid engined cars achive close to 50/50 weight distribution. So in most other front or rear engined cars one end of the car will weight less than the other end.
So next time you are NOT driving an XJ6 around a fast choppy corner it will become very apparent for you the value of inboard discs. (if you survive :).
The leaking of valve covers is usually due to poor maintenance where mechanics fail to clean or replace at regular interval (maybe 30k miles) the crankcase filter. If this filter plugs up the pressure in the crankcase increases putting pressure on valve cover seals. This happens to be a simple in your face 5 minute procedure.
Unfortunately I will have to review this video again just to make sure I have not missed some other pearls of wisdom.
That's all gravy, but it's a fucking luxury car not a Cobra or GT or whatever you're pretending it is.
I am sure you are trying to make some point ?
+311nonono Yeah, if you want a sports car, buy a Lotus, Mustang, or 2-seater and drive it as such. Keep the labor intensive braking systems away from family-hauling sedans or whatever else. I appreciate new tech, but putting complex systems on the appropriate car goes a long way also. Nothing worse than spending 6 hours to do a 90 minute preventive maintenance job so the car is .01g's better on the skid pad or whatever other point you were trying to broadcast.
You assume that I said that it is a sports car. I deify you to state were I implied or even stated that.
My statement regarding the IRS was to point out the fallacy of the reviewer referring to the IRS as "obsolete" when it was used in many recent cars such as the AC Cobra, Austin Martin DB7 as examples.
The AC Cobra is not a Mustang as the Cobra name may mislead, hence your thinking I am taking of a sports car.
The AC Cobra was a Shelby 2 seat with a Ford Chain driven 427 v8.
The Jaguar IRS was used as an upgrade suspension to the original.
The rear brakes pads take less than an hour replace.
As far as maintenance the rear suspension will go 300,000 miles with "zero" maintenance other than greasing (via grease fittings) once every 60,000 miles.
Yeah, whatever the point I was making, right.
If you don't know the point I was making don't you think that to assume may not make any sense ?
+311nonono I don't have a clue how IRS (independent rear suspension) got put on the table, as your previous diatribe was focusing on the merits of in board braking (which I agree is a suitable technology on certain cars). If an XJ6 is your flavor of 'performance' car, more power to ya.
The acceleration problem is probably related to a plugged up catalytic converter, fuel filter, dirty plugged up injectors, or some or all the above.
Genius, the car is after all 28 years old, do you know what spark plugs are? Forget it, make believe I never asked, moving on.
Wherever I park my black and burgundy interior 1987 xj6, I always feel like I'm in the middle of an auto junk yard.
Yeah that's right, because this car makes every car around it look like just plain old boring JUNK, even it it just came off the showroom floor.
The effect is understandable, after all this car has been referred to as one of the most beautiful sedans ever built.
And the constant parade of gawking passerbys, even stopping to take pictures, will attest to it.
I guess, in a way, you also attested to it with that maniacal jealous anger that you conveyed at the beauty of this car.
You are angry because it stirred up in your subconsciousness a hatred for your own very ugly vehicle.
Maybe in your pipe dreams someday you may own a vehicle of such beauty.
Try not to be a dopey.
*buys jaguar*
I own a triple-black XJ8, and I have to say that for the money, the luxury, materials and design is unbeatable. I don't know how the Brits managed to pull it off for $60K. I think it looks better than a Bentley costing three-times as much.
I really love that old Jaguar look though
Should you own it? NO! That's my exact feeling on almost every car I want, because I like cars that are terrible.
Lucas Electronics=a whole lotta nope!
I have owned 3 yank cars, they your ok. I have owned 5 ja including 2 serise 3s. the 3 wre very reliable and great cars. I had none of the problems these people talk about.. I have owned 3 mercs which have all been terrible. I still have my seris 3 jag 4.2 xj , best car I have ever had. I think these nurd heads best come to england and i will show them my jag with 23000 miles on clock still running great.
I love the Jaaaaaaaaaaag
Powered By Harrumphs. That's how obnoxiously British that car is.
I'm British, I drive a Mini, and even I think the XJ6 is too British.
These cars are mainly known for their horrid electronics, but the engines themselves I have heard that they are to be reliable. I wouldn't know, but there's a guy who fights to the death over it on the Motor Trend channel. So...maybe they are?
Anyways, couldn't you just yank out all that goofy over complicated relays, sensors, computers, and electrics and replace them with something from Painless and Big Stuff, or something like that and then have a good running, reliable Jag while keeping the Jag drivetrain?
You could...but do you have thousands of dollars and hours to do all that? And yes, British electrics were horrible, I owned a 1978 MGB. In fact I think the front signal light is the same as the MGBs. Lucas Electrics.
Nope, the 4.2l in this vehicle is prone with problems - things like slipping valve guides, rough idle, numerous fluid leaks, and poor engine management. Add to that all the Lucas horrors.
I bought a new '87 XJ6. Right away the AC compressor froze, the brake reservoir leaked, and ultimately the head gasket blew - in the first 10K miles!! So there it sat for 20 years. Two years ago we yanked the XK and replaced it with an EFI LT-1/4L60E, to include the wiring harness and PCM. Now rather than advancing, it does indeed accelerate - with nary a single fluid leak and the peace of mind that a tow truck need not follow closely on every trip.
dbateman The british don't need signal lights, i found that out when i was asked to replace a fuse on a jag xjs. It was harder to find then Bin Laden!
Bill Buckalew that sucks, my dad has one with the 4.0 I6 and since he bought it I think has changed his oil about twice and it still runs like a champ, despite the horrible neglect that poor car has been through
Haha and I know exactly who your taking about, the dude that goes on every single roadkill and rants about how British cars are the best cars in the world and everything that isn't a jag or land rover is shit, that dude annoys the shit out of me
Hey brits, how do YOU pronounce these words?: Nissan, Hyundai, Cressida, Celica, Scoupe, etc. (hint: you're pronouncing them all wrong) .