Category: Jaguar

This is the seventh Jaguar XJ8 offered in the two years I’ve been blogging on CarMax unicorns – a 2009 XJ8 L with only 46,000 miles – all in New Mexico.  You either like these old school Jaguars and they make you nostalgic, or you think they’re dated and deserved to be extinct.  I happen to like them as an almost retro, comfortable highway cruiser, albeit with only 300 hp from the 4.2 liter V-8, and few modern features.  It’s the British Mercury Grand Marquis, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

This one is a bit high priced at $20,998 (cheapest was this 2007 at $14,998) and yet if you like it, and even better, if you like getting a five year 100,000 mile MaxCare warranty on a 10 year old extinct luxury car, perhaps it’s for you.  We’ll see how long this one is on the market.  It opened at $19,998 and was bumped up $1,000 the next day.  On the other hand, the last one I tracked here spent more than a year on CarMax lots from Florida to California (never dropping in price from $18,998!) and only vanished last week.

Find this three owner 2009 Jaguar XJ8 L here in Albuquerque, NM.  CarMax only sells European cars not more than 10 years old, and this X350 model only ran through 2009, so this is the final year to find these with the MaxCare warranty!

Wrote about this 2009 Jaguar XJ8 L unicorn a year ago almost to the day in this post.  It was in Fort Myers, Florida, selling for $18,998 with 58,000 miles.  Of the 200 cars I’m tracking in my CarMax profile, this one has been in the bin the longest.  By miles.  Literally.  Was surprised to see it turn up this week 3,000 miles away in Fairfield, California, halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the home of Travis Air Force Base and the Jelly Belly headquarters (those are two separate factoids).I mistakenly wrote in August 2018 that it had sold, since it vanished from the net for so long but it had not.  Oddly, in one year there’s been no price reduction, despite possibly Continue reading “A Sad Record Setting Jaguar Journey – Unloved XJ8 Wandering Out West”

CarMax doesn’t carry very many XJ8’s.  Maybe three or four in the years I’ve been tracking.  I blogged about a 2008 Jaguar XJ8 with low miles and a low price tag in January, and it wasn’t until April when another popped in Las Vegas.  Been toying with the idea of buying a unicorn for the sole purpose of driving and reselling (with MaxCare Warranty ) and maybe defraying the cost of driving some interesting cars, and maybe turning a profit. So foolishly, and impulsively, I did my guerrilla tactic  to take it off the market – putting it on hold while I figured out what to do next.  But when I bought Etta (my 911) somehow my CarMax profile got changed to make my wife’s phone number the primary contact.  So yes, she got a call to coordinate HER appointment to see a Jaguar in Las Vegas.  I plead the fifth and let the car go.  It disappeared for almost a month. Today it showed up in Fort Myers, Florida.  Something about these old school XJ8’s I find very appealing.  A V-8 without too much horsepower, luxury and room, and above all, style.  Of course repairs can be expensive, especially as one reader pointed out – the air suspension, that’s why we get the warranty.  Find this two-owner California car now in Florida here – if the link is dead perhaps the car is on hold, sold, or once again being transferred.