2002 Jaguar XKR

Since 2015 this has been the personal transport of a Jaguar and classic car specialist, so was meticulously sourced and has been impeccably well cared for.

Being a late 2002 car it gained the 4.2 litre supercharged V8 making 400bhp, which is mated to the 6 speed ZF automatic gearbox for smooth delivery of that meteoric power to the rear wheels.

The car was first registered on 17th October 2002 with an age related plate, the current owner fitted the personal number which will stay with the car.

As well as regular servicing the car has had all of the unusual, tricky, forgotten or expensive mechanical jobs taken care of to maximise its reliability and longevity, and its no secret that the achilles heal of these beautiful cars is corrosion, if you are looking at a car that hasn’t been welded, they haven’t found the rust yet! That too has been taken care of with new panels professionally grafted in and painted making the repairs invisible.

The XKR is painted in Jaguar Racing Green - a subtly metallic take on British Racing Green which surprisingly is an uncommon colour as it looks stunning and suits the shape perfectly. Aside from a couple of small and barely noticeable chips and marks on the nose that paint is superb and unmarked.

The car has recently had new sill and rear arch panels let in (see receipts in the file) and the paint expertly blended in so the flanks are now smooth and shiny, and the car has had a Rustbuster cavity wax and underseal treatment to keep future rust at bay.

The 20” BBS Paris alloys he been refurbished and colour coded to match the grey exterior trim, visually tying the car together well. As such they are in excellent condition and have premium Pirelli and Dunlop tyres with around 50% wear.

At the front the car has xenon HID headlamps and at the rear Adamesh stainless tailpipes and rear silencer deleted.

The colour choices in this car make the cabin feel light and airy, the highlight of the interior has to be the stunning Recaro seats in Ivory leather. Not only is the hide in lovely unmarked condition, in the front they are heated memory seats.

The wood in the dash and doors is excellent, not faded and with a deep gloss, it gives a unique character that no other marque can quite capture. The light carpet is in good unmarked condition and the car has had a new headlining fitted in 2019.

If the music from the V8 doesn’t hold your attention, the car has the premium level Alpine 320 watt hifi system with 6 disk changer in the boot, and has a Parrot Bluetooth handsfree phone interface fitted. Other one toys include climate control and rear parking sensors.

This Jaguar has an enviable service history, with stamps in the book from main dealers up to 47,000 miles and then marque specialists from then on.

Other mechanical tasks taken care of include changing the supercharger oil - something almost always over looked and the differential oil, both in 2020, and over the last couple of years every minor imperfection has been taken care of, from the headlamp washer pump to rattling instruments via clearing codes regardless of the cost and parts required, receipts show many parts fitted that some owners would have ignored.

Having been had the usual rust spots repaired and painted the body and importantly the sills and wheel arches are rust free and the underbody appears solid having been undersealed and cavity waxed.

New front and rear brake disks and pads were fitted 2017, at 62,000 miles along with lower ball joint gaiters and front wheel bearings, and new shock absorbers installed in 2016, the same year as the stainless exhaust was fitted and the gearbox was serviced.

The Jag is MoT’d until October 2021, and the file contains a record of all previous tests, which show only one fail for lights, and one with an advisory for the handbrake, indications of a car that has been looked after through out its life.

When the current owner purchased the car in 2015 he had an RAC inspection (shown below) which showed it had been maintained however a year later discovered corrosion in the sills which he had repaired at a cost of nearly £3,000, and as detailed in the Underneath section and can be seen in the extensive sheaf of receipts in the pictures, continued to lavish care on the car.

The metallic Jaguar Racing Green exterior and Ivory leather interior look stunning together. The XK series has to be one of the prettiest coupes of recent years, and in this spec has real presence.

If you are looking for an XKR you would be hard pressed to find a better example than this, we estimate £7,000 - £10,000. The service history is ideal, everything you could hope to have been done has been, and the usual rust spots have been taken care of meaning the new owner will be spared that expense and the owner had gone above and beyond maintaining the car mechanically.

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