I just won’t use them at all unless I’m in a rental. I tend to drive weird stuff (antique Jags, old StarQuests, 454-powered Corvettes, etc.) and I just can’t trust them. And it’s not all about criminal mistrust; in many cases, it’s that they simply don’t know how to handle the car or deal with its idiosyncracies. For…

I’ve driven about 1,400 miles in the past 3 weeks in mine, through Alabama and Tennessee, in both freeway and stop-and-go traffic, with the A/C on pretty much the whole time. Perhaps I have found the holy grail.

My in-laws had two of them, back-to-back. May have been the most uncomfortable car for a trip lasting more than a couple of hours that I’ve ever had. Its engine was tinny, anemic, almost scratchy. I remember wanting one so badly when they first came out; after driving my in-laws’ car a couple of times, chauffeuring…

There has never been a factory-produced manual XK8 or XKR. There have been a couple of one-offs built by Jag engineering teams but any manual XKR you’ve seen is a Tremec conversion and it’s not easy. Figure about $15k to do it right and even then you’re going to have to live with a lit-up dashboard full of error codes…

If you want the weirdest case of exterior parts crossover ever, it has to be the fact the outside mirrors on most 80s Jaguar sedans and the XJS are the same as the mirrors off a Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

I realize I’m picking nits here, but ... can’t stop staring at all the panel gaps and body alignment issues with this picture. Did it snap together?

Brings back a lot of memories. I had a 1948 that may actually have been in worse shape than this one. No seats in ours. You sat directly on the gas tank, which had a crack in the top. Every time you hit a bump, you got cold gas to the ass. Steering wheel could be turned 360 degrees and you would continue going in the…

I just can’t get excited about this thing with it not having a manual transmission option.

I currently daily-drive a 1989 Jaguar XJS V12. For about 2 years in the early 2000s, I daily-drove a 1988 Jaguar XJS V12. If I were to line up every car I’ve owned in a row and rate them on reliability, the 88 would be in the top 5 and the 89 would be in the top 10.

Hypothetically, you’re supposed to leave the seat belt fastened at all times, and slide under it coming and going when you open the door. This qualifies it as a “passive restraint system” and thus made it legal.

I learned how to drive on one of these. My dad bought one when I turned 12 and turned me loose on our family property. This was in the 80s. He may have found the worst example of a Willys product that he could at the time. The front suspension was shot (top speed was 20 mph because the front end would shake like it…

The concern, in regards to that scenario, is that the refueling infrastructure shuts down more quickly than rural residents can afford to upgrade. Also, given that many people (or most, if you’re talking about low-wage earners) buy their next car at least partially with the proceeds of the car they’re selling, banning…