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2000 XJ8 4.0 Sovereign

IWAS astonished to realise when my road tax renewal came through that I’d owned my lovely X308 for precisely a year in May.

As someone who changes his cars as frequently as his underwear, the fact that X388 VVW is still parked out the front of the house means it’s akeeper. Indeed, I haven’t felt this way about a Jaguar since I acquired my X300 in 2013,which was my first post-XJ40 saloon and a real gem of a car (it’s currently awaiting paint and

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