5,800 is WELL north of 150 MPH Grant! The fastest I have gone in mine is 150 MPH, uphill on an unrestricted motorway, in ambient temp of about minus 10 centigrade. It was till pulling like a train when I chickened out! My engine LOVES cold air.

 

Yep, nothing like a Jag V12 being driven as designed. Sad so many are shopping cars.

The fact the damn thing still pulled, an sat on the road like Super Glue still gives me the shudders.

The following X300 and S Type's never felt that sure footed at 110kph,. The designers really did get it RIGHT.

Maybe I should sweet talk Management and buy another XJ-S, I doubt I am that brave or silly, but you never know.

 

I'll do it. There was recent thread where someone showed a photo of a minorly scorched rotor. I don't need that...

The SPEEDS y'all talk about are crazy...maybe someday,,, when I'm in my 70s, 😂

 

Somehow or the other these cars have come to be treated as though they're made out of glass. They're not. Quite the opposite, really. They're built like tanks.

And it's darn near impossible to hurt the V12 engine...cooling system neglect excepted, of course.

I don't think I've ever heard of a Jag V12 engine suffering an internal failure. That is, a failure of the reciprocating assembly, oiling system, bearings.

To each his own, naturally, but IMO if you're not giving your V12 the boot at every opportunity, you're missing half the fun

Cheers
DD

 

100% agree.

My XJS was more stable at 100-120mph than any car I've owned, including my XJR. I was always amazed !

Cheers
DD

 

I think it was Phil Hill, certainly a famous US racing driver, who was asked b y Jaguar to test a racing spec XJS as Daytona. He said that Jaguar had told him the car was dead stable at high speeds, unlike the E type he had driven for them (E Types are notoriously unstable at high speeds). He said, in the subsequent interview that he had thought that this assurance was 3/4 wishful thinking and1/4 BS.
Then, he said, he tried the car, and found it was so stable he could move it up and down the banking at 150 MPH with one hand on the wheel, and absolutely no dramas whatsoever!