How much are you willing to spend to get the lighter interior? To change out the interior yourself, you are looking at about $1500 or so. To me, that is too much to spend to change the color. For that much, you can send the car off to an upholstery shop and for around $2000, get true leather interior in the exact color you want and they would probably be able to swap out a lot of the other pieces too to make it all look right.

 

Probably not that much. I'll probably just keep hunting until I find something that I'm happy with. Thanks for everything everybody!

 

Happy hunting.

 

bigcat, I know what you are going through. Just take my three step advice with buying an x type
1: know what you want (you have that down)
2: Don't Settle for sub par
3: Be patient.

and on that same train of thought, I just came across a car that you would love, but unfortunately the owner was just as picky as you when picking it out so there is no way to get him to budge off of his pickings :P

Good luck

 

This one is close but I'm sure you've been checking the listings.
Jaguar : X-Type | eBay
Finding the manual trans is probably going to be the biggest challenge.

 

I've seen plenty of automatic versions of my dream car and 0 manual Patience is key I guess. It will make it all the better when I find it. It's probably hiding in the florida keys or southern california.

 

YES!!!! Patience is the key here. I was in pretty much the same situation as you. I know EXACTLY what I wanted (2005/3.0 liter/sport/carbon fiber/manual/Aruba wheels) and wasn't in a particular hurry. Saw a few manuals, but usually were more than I wanted to pay. Took me almost 6 months. The one I ended up buying was about 500 miles from home. I flew down there to buy it and driove it back. Kind of scary buying something that far away, but it worked out for me. Car has been fantastic and now has just a tick under 100K miles and is running better than ever. Just be cheking the usual websites regularly and sooner or later you will find just what you want posted. When you find it, you will know. Just let us know what you end up with. Good luck!

 

That's how I found my truck actually. I started found out I wanted a dakota at 14 and was ready to buy whenever I found what I wanted (I had been saving pennys since I was about 8 for a vehicle). Then one day it showed up on autotrader, called the guy, my dad drove me to ohio to get it and it's in my driveway today. I'm sad it has to go, but it's a decision I made. I do know that the original owner has a new coat of paint and garage waiting for it at home though!

Time for a Jag!

 

Good luck with the hunt, took me about 8 months to find my old car. But stick with it, just when you're ready to give up one will show up