1999 Jaguar XKR Convertible

This 1999 XKR Convertible was bought in 2000 by a lady whose husband took over the car when she passed away in 2021. 

The car is now being sold by a family friend.

Today, it has just 51,995 miles on the odometer.

To give you an indication of how sparingly it’s been used, the odometer was showing just under 30,000 miles in 2010.

The car’s very good overall condition is far more a reflection of its attractive mileage and careful curation than its age.

The car starts on the button, picks up pace with plenty of enthusiasm, and presses on with all due urgency.

It feels well screwed-together and is reassuringly bereft of extraneous squeaks, rattles, groans, sighs and rumbles.

The bodywork is really very straight and in decent order, being free from any dinks, dents, bangs, crumples, creases, ripples or folds of any real consequence.

The panels, panel gaps and shut-lines are consistent and even.

The red paintwork is reasonable in the main and has a decent amount of shine and lustre to it overall.

There are a few light scratches on the boot lid, plus various drips of what looks like dried lacquer.

There are a few stone chips in the usual places - around the ‘nose’ of the car, on the front valance, on the forward-facing aspects of the wheel arches, etc - but no more than you would expect to find on a car of this mileage and age.

The wheels, which are by no means in a bad state, have some scuffing in evidence in various places. 

The centre caps on the nearside wheels have red ‘growler’ motifs, while those on the offside are now yellow.

There are a couple of scuffs to be seen on the nearside wing mirror housing and you’ll find another scuff on the n/s/r wheel arch.

The matching Vredstein tyres appear to have a good deal of life left in them,

The lights, lenses, badging and other exterior fixtures and fittings all appear to be in good order.

A chrome insert has been added to the rear bumper housing at some point, along with an ‘S’ badge. The quad tail pipes look to be aftermarket items, too.

The black fabric hood fits snugly, goes up and down in a timely and predictable fashion, and appears to be devoid of any nicks or tears that we can see. 

The accompanying cream-coloured tonneau cover is also in unimpeachable condition.

The condition of the interior is really very good indeed, although the leather would no doubt thank the car’s next owner for introducing it to some appropriate cleaning and feeding products.

The driver’s seat has a few creases to show for its years of service. The passenger seat and rear seats, unsurprisingly, look rather less familiar with any kind of duty or wear.

The roof lining looks fine to us, as do the rich wood veneers on the dashboard. 

The car still has its original Motorola flip-phone in the centre armrest storage compartment.

The door cards, carpets and mats look to be in equally fine fettle.

We noticed a crack in the plastic shroud at the base of the driver’s seat facing the door.

The wood and leather steering wheel, gear selector, instruments, dials and controls all look decent to us. 

We didn’t press every button or flick every switch, but those we did press and flick did as we asked without delay or complaint. 

The boot looks to be in very good condition and comes with some tools and a space-saver wheel. 

The engine and engine bay look clean, shiny and dry. 

The undersides appear to be possessed of plenty of structural integrity and nothing we’ve seen has prompted us to tut or raise an eyebrow.

This car comes with very little by way of history or service records, but the vendor, who has known the car and its previous owners for many years, tells us that it was routinely serviced and maintained by Marshall of Milton Gate, a Jaguar main dealer near Abingdon.

He also tells us that the car was only ever used during the summer months and never ventured out in the rain.

He has recently spent nearly £1000 on new fuel pumps and spark plugs. 

The car comes with a recent, clear HPI report. 

We think few cars give you as much bang for your buck as a decent XKR Convertible of this vintage.

Much of the painful depreciation will have taken place many years ago, and in someone else’s wallet, leaving you with an affordable rocket ship with the soft-top looks to be equally at home outside Waitrose, the Dog & Duck, or a brasserie on the Côte d'Azur. 

And this particular example has the very real advantage of having been in the same family ownership from virtually new.

We are happy to offer this fine vehicle for auction with an estimate in the range of £10,000 - £12,000.

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