Highlights
- Ultra-rare run-out Sport
- Low mileage example
- Full service history
- Well cared for car in great working order
The Appeal
In late 1997, the Jaguar ‘X300’ XJ6 became the car it should have been at launch thanks to the launch of the new AJ 16 V8 engine line-up.
Along with the new engine, the new ‘X308’ had a few visual tweaks – a new dashboard, better wood, clearer dials and rounder bumpers.
But beneath the exterior, which didn’t have an awful lot wrong with it anyway, the X308 was a thoroughly different beast with an entirely new suspension set up and a revised transmission. They were – and remain – glorious cars to drive.
This one is a properly rare beast – a 2002 ‘Sport’ spec, which was one-up from the entry-level car and was aimed at younger customers, identifiable by its body-coloured grille surround and mesh grille. The Sport specification was dropped early in the XJ8’s life but was reintroduced in 2001 as a special edition to help clear XJ8 stock ahead of the launch of the X350 XJ6 later that year.
Unlike the earlier cars, this one has the much improved steel-liner engine and is Euro 4 compliant, meaning that unlike most X308 XJs it can be driven in London’s Ultra-Low Emissions Zone and similar clean air zones throughout the UK with impunity – a huge selling point.
It’s a very smart and unusual variant of the XJ8 – a really rare spec in an especially handsome colour, with a pretty good history and supplied in full working order.
It’s now ready to go on to a collector, someone who appreciates its rarity in X308 terms and recognises it for the striking, unusual and covetable low-mileage example that it is.
The History and Paperwork
- UK V5C
- New MOT will be provided on sale – current test until June 2024
- Genuine 73,400 mileage
- Original book pack and manuals
- Full service history stamped up to 2023
- Originally owned by Jaguar Cars Ltd as part of its demonstration fleet, as evidenced by the PDI stamp in the service book
The Condition
- Titanium Grey Micatallic
- Very smart overall order
- 10-spoke ‘Celtic’ alloys
- Good paint finish
- Mesh grille with body coloured surround
- Bodywork is sound overall with some minor bubbling to lower front wing bottoms and one rear sill edge
- Appears sound underneath with evidence of past welded repairs to rear inner sills, completed to a high standard
- Oatmeal leather electrically adjustable and heated sports seats
- Slight bolster wear to driver’s seat
- Pale maple veneers
- Factory option part-wood steering wheel
- Climate control
- Factory stereo
- Excellent carpets and door cards
- Good headlining with no drooping – rare for an X308!
- Sought-after cupholder armrest in fully functional order
The Mechanics
- 3.2-litre V8
- Five-speed auto transmission
- Starts on the button
- Runs well with extremely smooth and quiet idle
- Well-serviced car with low mileage
- Full service at 71,423 miles in January 2023
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