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Are you kidding?
Looking through GTP, I noticed a strange absense on views for the Jaguar XKR/XK8.

I think that in a world of cars shaped like briefcases, and even after 10 years, it's still one of the most beautiful cars on the road.

I'll have to type the link in, as the image function is messing up here.

http://www.fast-autos.net/jaguar/xkr5.jpg
http://www.fast-autos.net/jaguar/xkrr.jpg

Also, are they available in the US?

Please share your thoughts guys.
 
It's nice, but it's another case of 20 year old chassis syndrome. Is there even a manual box option on the XKR?

I wish they had made the silly named Jaguar XKR-R
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6 Speed manual, track tuned chassis suspension and 400bhp 4 litre supercharged V8.
 
It is nice, and beautiful. there has been some work to to it over the years, but it is still and old design at heart.
 
Beautiful as it may be, for roughly the same price you can get a 911, which performs better, and IMO, looks just as good, if not better. And yes, they're available in North America.
 
They DID make the XKR-R, it was in last year's evo COTY write-up. Faired relitively good as well.

They were just keeping witht he name series, i.e. S-Type R.

Now my question is why they didn't make THIS:
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Jaguar XK-RS. That painjob is sick. Only after viewing several pictures of the car did I pick up on the sleeper jaguar painted on the sides...
 
..Because the contrast on the front grill/body colour makes it look like a fish gulping for air?
It looks okay, but few youngsters would buy a Jaguar and few 'golden years' would buy that.
 
ExigeExcel
..Because the contrast on the front grill/body colour makes it look like a fish gulping for air?
It looks okay, but few youngsters would buy a Jaguar and few 'golden years' would buy that.
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Yeah, it has no realistic market.

But the paintjob is stellar.
 
A friend of mine used to have an XK8 and I drove it on several occasions. It is basically in a different universe from the XJS it replaced, of which a different friend of mine owned.

I found the XK8 absolutely gorgeous to look at, comfortable to sit in, but not especially interesting to drive. All its character is in the sheet metal, the leather, the wood, the low slung seating and narrow windows. As a driver's car, its not particularly different than say, a Mercedes CLK, Porsche 928 or 8-Series BMW. Good GT car, very comfortable, but it doesn't really like being run hard.

XKRs are pretty rare here in the States. I've only ever seen one.


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The XK is a pretty bland design to me. Slick, yes but not that it makes me go hmmm in anyway. Not surprising though, I always liked boxy designs like the AM Lagonda 2-4.
 
i'd kill for an XKR. i worship it, i really do.

there was a dealership is Charlotte, i stopped there once, saw one, fell in love with it.

i'm gonna own one of these hotties one day

*drools*
 
I actually recently read a review by Jeremy Clarkson of the XKR-R. He drove it through the rain on a rather long boring drive and had nothing possitive to say except that it was interesting when the back end let go in the middle of traffic.

(:
 
MistaY
It's nice, but it's another case of 20 year old chassis syndrome. Is there even a manual box option on the XKR?
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20 year old chassis??? - the XK was a brand new chassis, you might be getting mixed up with the Aston DB7 which was based on the XJS chassis and engine.
The XK is getting a little long in the tooth now, but Jag are developing a new one with an all aluminium chassis like the recent XJ series, and is said to be more of a drivers car.
 
No, the XK was a newly developed chassis, it was the XJS that shared with the DB7 (or visa versa)
 
Like ExigeExcel said, I think it looks like a fish. Like a trout.

It is genrally too rounded and bland for my taste. The XJ and X-type, with their more strongly creased hoods, distinctive quad headlights, and defined shoulders, look a lot better to me.
 
They used the money needed for the F-Type developing diesel engines.

Currently, the F-Type will not be made.
 

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