Remember when the X-Type was considered the 'most important Jaguar ever'?
Remember when folk used to badge-engineer their cars to make them look like they were sportier than they actually were? When fuel injection became a thing you could hardly move in Halfords or other similar 'tuning shops' for aftermarket GTI badges and double-sided sticky tape.
The vendor reckons this one is the 2.1 V6, which would make it a front-driver, but even on Shed's crud-encrusted Amstrad screen he can see 2.5 and AWD badges on the tailgate. Previous owners surely won't have gone to the bother of sticking those badges on to the back of a 2.1 simply to impress the neighbours, so we're going to go with this one having the bigger AJ25 V6 engine and all-wheel drive. In other words, decent power in a sporty all-wheel drive estate.
The 87k mileage on our shed is low for a 2005 car but it’s properly backed up by the MOT history. One of the advisories on last May’s test was for a non-excessive oil leak, but testers have been patiently pointing that out for the last 11 years/46,000 miles so it’s obviously pretty un-excessive. Other than that it’s just been the usual consumables –worn brakes and tyres, faded cushions on the back seat, that sort of thing.
Just returning to that faux-tuning thing fro a minute, it's not quite comparable but Shed remembers seeing Triumph TR3s in the early 1960s with 'Disc Brakes' stickers on the back as a warning to any drum-braked thickoes driving too closely behind.
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