Manufacturer: Jaguar Cars Model: XJ6 Sport First Registered:...

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Manufacturer: Jaguar Cars
Model: XJ6 Sport
First Registered: 1997
Registration No: RegNo
Engine No: 9HPGNB134151
Chassis No: SAJJPALG3BP802496
MOT: Sep 2015
Colour: Sapphire Blue
Details:
By the early 1990s a new generation of the XJ Saloon was under development. An investment of £200 million from Ford in 1989 enabled Jaguar to re-design the XJ40, which made the car simpler to manufacture and improved build quality. The result was the X300, the first of a new generation of Jaguars with a new style of project numbers. For the X300, the opportunity was also taken to re-style the car, and the result was a more Jaguaresque design: softer shapes and a classic four-headlamp front end were more in tune with newer motoring designs in the 1990s, and recalled the styling heritage of classic Jaguars of the past.

As launched in 1994, the X300 range featured a choice of the 3.2-litre and 4-litre versions of the six cylinder engine, now in a modified form known as the AJ16, while the 6-litre V12 was also available. Most exciting however was the new supercharged version of the 4-litre, fitted to the XJR model. With a top speed of 155mph (250 km/h), it was just as fast as the 12 cylinder car, but had even more spectacular acceleration. As before there were basic XJ6 models, Sport versions and Sovereign models, as well as the traditional Daimlers. In 1995 long wheelbase models were added to the range.

However, the six and 12 cylinder versions of the X300 were to be the most short-lived of the various XJs to date. Jaguar was working on an all-new engine family, which eventually would embrace both V6 and V8 versions. If we disregard the Daimler engines of the 1960s, this was Jaguar's first V8, although an eight cylinder version of the V12 had been under consideration in the late 1960s. The new V8, known as the AJ8 engine, was launched in 4-litre form in the new XK8 sports car which replaced the XJ-S in 1996, and in the following year the V8 engines also appeared in the X300.

Offered here is a three owner X300 3.2 Sport, which has covered a warranted 57,000 miles from new and comes with the service history to support this statement. In the vendor's ownership since March 2009, the car is only offered for sale due to ill health and is said to drive without fault.

The vendor states that the car has full service history and that he has recently replaced the hydraulic jack in the tool kit. Finished in Kingfisher blue with cream interior, the car represents extraordinary value for money.

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Auction Date:
28th Oct 14 at 1:30pm GMT

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