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‘83 Jaguar for goodness’ sakes was more reliable than ANYTHING Detroit made from 1960 to 1990.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Stop it yer killin' me!

I had a brand new '71 XJ6 and it was without a doubt the worst vehicle I've ever owned and that includes a fiat X1/9 and '64 Mercedes 220 SE, a 1988 Renault Medallion (R21), a 1969 Renault R16 and an entire fleet of R5's!

OK the Jag went pretty decent as a cruiser but that was if you remembered to keep the carbs topped up with oil...a once a week ritual. And those inboard rear disc brakes! What FUN! Kinda cheap to replace at the stealer if a thousand for a brake job is cheap.

Don't get me started on the BENDABLE TUBE EXHAUST HEADERS! Stainless steel...yeah RIGHT! Let jag sit for a month and oops!...Need new headers.

did I mention that a month after delivery the windshield wiper regulator gave up? One of many things to go away in the first couple of month. Dealer didn't have the part...couldn't get it. I drove an entire winter with a rope through the windows tied to the wipers!

There was one fair thing about the Jag though. It had twin gas tanks reading of a single gauge with a switch to flip between tanks. Once I took the then future Mrs p6 on a drive on a dirt road in a remote area to see the Legendary Ghost of Country Club Hill.

Gee I guess I forgot to gas the Jag before we left. Awww...too far to walk back in the dark. We'll wait for a while and see if anyone else comes by.

A while later while the future mrs p6 was distracted I secretly flipped the gauge and WHOA CHECK it OUT! All that rocking must have settle some gas in the tank!

Hehehehehehehe.....

LOL! Yes... In any case I like OK the Jag went pretty decent as a cruiser... One of the reasons I love my X300 XJ6 is that it's easy to maintain, it's fast as sin, and passengers say "wow!" There really is no ride better than an Xj6, none lower, smoother, sweeter...

I once drove it ave. 100mph for 5 hours through the (not US) desert. THAT is the beauty of the XK120 engine.

Don't get me wrong, I am not "Anti-US." But for the same price, and the same (or similar?) maintenance issues, why deal with UAW crap?

Yes, the Cimarron is gone and I have driven the new CTS. Yes, it is awesome. But pricy for a 2014 hardtop car that drives almost half as well as my 1999 M3 convertible.

The Xj6 was the best of all. I'm looking for a '97 now. That Connoly (sp?) leather and woody aroma... Oh well gotta drive somewhere in my X300 right now, actually!

Be reasonable. A 1971 Jaguar XJ6 was a very early model, and you (lucky sod) were especially selected, as we say nowadays, as a sort of beta-tester. It wasn't a Jaguar. It was a Jaguar starter kit.

Super responsive to fieled input, Jaguar made many changes. My 1976 XJ6 was a wonderful beast indeed. Especially after we installed a 5-row radiator and electric fans, installed huge oil coolers for motor and trans (A GM Hydramatic, BTW, which we hot-rodded with a special torque converter and altered shift points) It had Lucas fuel injection (Do NOT LOL) Capacitor Discharge Ignition, a fuel cooler, GM Climate Control, GM Power windows, weighed 2 tons, had beautiful leather upholstery, an AM-FM 8-track (!), and was quite capable of leaving rubber at 100 mph. It had twin saddle fuel tanks, together holding 25 gallons, got 15 mpg no matter how one drove it, and for the run from LA to Las Vegas, it was simply superb. Beautiful disc brakes all around, inboard at the rear (IRS). Once properly sorted out, this car was very reliable.

Ran 10 years and 225 Thousand miles before being stolen. My story and I'm sticking to it, Mr. Geico.