Koenig Jaguar XJ-S with AAALLLLLL of the fenders and cheese-graters!

R&T Article regarding the sale

NMNA.  I apologize if I'm stepping on any toes linking to another magazine's site.  But I immediately knew the GRM community would be interested.

No apology needed. It's a glorious train wreck in action of 80's 'style' to excess. 

So, which came first - GRM's "You Need This", or R & T's "You Must Buy This" ?    

In reply to stuart in mn :

Not sure, but I try not to click on anything on GRM with a 'you need this' title as I abhor the click baitiness of it. 

It's incredibly over-done.  But for some reason, I can't hate it.  Actually, I like it.  Although it's kinda interesting that they used the 6cyl XJ-S for this and not the V12 one.  I guess that does open up the manual trans option.  And the AJ6 is a pretty nice engine (and much less quirky than the V12s). 

That is my generations type of car.  I want it!!!!   It is way cool!!!  

I think it’s the color that keeps it relevant and not too over the top.  I do hear the Miami Vice intro when looking at it though...

The 6 cyl with a 5 speed is very nearly as fast as the V12 with the old 3 speed. My father had one and it was an amazing ride for the era. 

That’s one cocaine line away from being wrecked....

I'd drive that.

Nope, Not, and No!

I'm left wondering where the euro headlights are.

In reply to rslifkin :actually there were a few V12s with manual made by the factory( none made it here to America) or you can convert your V12 to a 5/6 speed manual gear box, either kit or DIY 

That's berkeleying awesome!

I almost bought a 560SEC with the Koenig kit. It was purplish blue and way over done. I'm so mad I hesitated on that purchase. 

I want that.

It finally dawned on me why I think it looks funny; it's got all the cheese graters, but only half the fenders, so it sort of looks like an XJ-S doing an impression of a Deltawing.

Now if only I had an explanation as to why *that* was the only thing that really struck me as "off"...

Adrian_Thompson said:

In reply to stuart in mn :

Not sure, but I try not to click on anything on GRM with a 'you need this' title as I abhor the click baitiness of it. 

Absolutely agree

yupididit said:

That's berkeleying awesome!

 

I almost bought a 560SEC with the Koenig kit. It was purplish blue and way over done. I'm so mad I hesitated on that purchase.