With its blacked-out glasshouse chrome and positively industrial-looking wheels, the XJR makes a Moomin out of a neighbouring Xsara. The glimmer of water on the trunk almost makes it look like there’s an ungainly, skinny spoiler on the bootlid, but it’s just an optical illusion with the trunk chrome.
The light-coloured leather makes the admittedly tight-looking cabin nicely airier. A nice thing about this exact car was that there was a child seat strapped on the back seat. I’m sure any kid that’s being hauled around in a black, supercharged V8 Jaguar is going to grow up just right.
The leaping cat present and correct. Blacked-out grille with mesh is a serious design feature, but it keeps things looking aggressive.
Since nobody bought these in Finland when new except for a select number of wealthy individuals, this is most likely a recent German import. The going rate for one of these must hover somewhere around 15k eur; you can get an earlier X300 XJR for less than 10. There’s a 1995 car for sale in this town for a little less than 12k, but since it’s been for sale for a while, there’s probably some room for haggling.
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