1988 Jaguar XJR-S review from UK and Ireland

It's only really ever gone wrong once, last year on the way to Le-Mans, she got hot whilst in traffic, the wiring loom for the injectors was damaged on the very hot water hose, took me a while to find the fault, but no subsequent damage.

The car is not extremely quick from take off compared to a lot of todays hot hatches and sports cars, but the acceleration from 80mph is outstanding, even still pulling at 140mph there is still some steam left, enough to get to get to 160. she is really comfortable, the seats, although old still grip you in place. The wide 235 tyres provide loads of traction, the autobox lets it down a bit, these would be great with a manual box. Unfortunatley she is not coming out of the garage this year, saving for a house, and returning 16mpg shes not the most economical car!! Hopefully a restoration to take shape next year, and she'll be back with a few performance enhancements from AJ6 engineering, and a gleaming respray, along with re-trimmed interior. A cheap car to buy, never really gone wrong, a great weekend car. Thsi car will outpace Audi TT's Lotus Elises, faster top speed than a Boxter!!