For such a big car the interior room is limited, albeit luxurious.
The car is whitout doubt one of the great luxury cars.
Effortless to drive and has excellent handling, wonderful on longer journeys.
Performance is excellent and can be enhanced by using the auto box as a manual.
It's a 4.0i V8 Auto, Jaguar did not do a 3.2 engine for the XK8.
I think the confusion between the 3.2 and the 4.0 engines, in this case, stems from the fact that Jaguar were owned by Aston Martin when developing the XK8. This was also around the same time Aston were developing the DB7. The 3.2litre supercharged 6 cylinder in the DB7 was originally intended for the XK8, but Aston 'Stole' it. Quite why they went ahead and developed the 4.0V8 instead of using the original engine I don't know but I'm sure someone out there knows.
The 3.2 litre engine was available in the XJ8 (sedan) model only, and never intended for the two-door XK8. It is quite incorrect to say that Jaguar was ever owned by Aston Martin; they were both owned by Ford, and the V8 engine was developed solely by Jaguar for the XK8 and future XJ series sedan.
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The Aston Martin V8 was designed by Tadek Marek, and has nothing to do with Jaguar or Ford. There's is a totally different engine, and I think better designed, and better sounding too.
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