Arriving for the '98 model year, in the middle of the "Forduar Era", the X308-series Jaguar XJ sedans were the final iteration of the XJ40 sedan platform that had been around since the mid-1980s.
It was available in several levels of interior swank and underhood earnestness, and the ultimate expression of the latter was the XJR. Discernible by big wheels and meaty rubber and a body-colored grille surround enclosing an aggro-looking stainless steel mesh grille insert, the XJR was the snarliest Jag sedan you could get at the time.
It was powered by a supercharged version of Jaguar's 4.0L AJ V-8 that made 370 forced-induction horsies. Fed through a Mercedes-built 5-speed automatic, this was enough to launch the two-ton sedan to sixty in 5.3 seconds according to Car and Driver's test data. It blasted through the quarter in 13.9 seconds at 103mph and kept going all the way to a buck fifty-four on the top end.
All this goodness didn't come cheap. The Anthracite car in the photo would have come with a price tag of $70,802 in 2000, which comes to about a hundred and thirty grand in today's dollars.
The car in photo was snapped in May of 2022 using a Canon EOS 7D and EF-S 17-85mm f/2.8 IS zoom lens.
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