Noisy Tappet - Very common on these engines.
Juddering electric window - Another common fault.
This car is surprisingly quick - Beats the equivalent BMW, Audi, quicker than a Lexus IS200 Sport.
Handling is actually very good - a very good compromise - firm enough to throw through corners at quite silly speeds if you're up to it yet soft enough to drive on real roads, speed bumps can be taken at a proper speed without damaging your kidneys.
Very well equipped
Very comfortable.
Gorgeous retro-Jaguar style looks.
Stupidly expensive insurance, Group 16 - far more than an equivalent BMW,Audi etc - Why?
I owned a Xedos6 2.0 from 1994 through to 2002.
2000 miles one year old when purchased, 155,000 miles when I finished.
Car was generally excellent with no serious problems during my ownership, apart from the well-known ones;
1. Seizing rear brake calipers. Finally cured by drilling a small hole into the caliper in order to lubricate the handbrake mechanism at each service.
2. Juddering driver side window - never really solved.
3. Very slight shimmy during accelerating at slow speeds - never solved in spite of attention to suspension, wheel balancing etc..
4. Tappet noise on start up.
5. ECU glitch if engine started from cold, run for a few seconds and then stopped. Re-starting an hour later could be tricky.
Other than this, everything wonderful - superb quality, distinctive, good performance for its time.
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