OK, here, as promised, are the first shots of my new toy – the rather splendid Jaguar XKR. It took my brother and I quite a while to locate the right model as there are plenty of grey ones (boring!!) or black ones (slightly less boring) out there – but we both felt that blue, specifically, Jaguar’s very rare Spectrum Blue, was the one!
Well done to colleagues and friends: Alex B, Kevin P and Carl G for correctly identifying the car, (and Jo for almost getting it right – my budget wouldn’t stretch to an XKR-S!) from the 10 clues I put on Facebook the week before. 👍👍👍👍👍
But shame on you Ian M for suggesting it was actually a canoe, after seeing the Facebook post mentioning it having ‘paddles’ – Doh!!!! ![]()
I picked it up today and had an opportunity to experience all sorts of roads on the 100-or-so mile journey home from the Dealer. Surprisingly, it averaged between 27 and 32 mpg (higher than I expected) at an average speed of 62mph.
My thanks to the very helpful team at Top Cars of Sheffield – Tony, Mark and Ollie, for their superb customer service and hospitality after my journey ‘up north’ by train. They met me at Sheffield station and ferried me to their specialist dealership about 10-minutes away! I felt good already!! 😁
The full advert is HERE
More photos
https://www.pinterest.com/UKStevePalmer/my-xkr/
…and here is the official brochure, courtesy of the Jaguar HQ! 👍
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