I guess you meant 98 rather than 88 for that XJ8. Back in 88 it would have been an XJ6, Sovereign or XJS - and it would have been those horrendous square-headlight series 4's which almost put Jaguar out of business.

As far as I'm concerned the last proper Jaguar was the series 3, and I still have the badges from mine (I don't want to think about what the insurers did with the rest of it). I think the recent XJ's are a reasonable tribute to that car and the S type does the series 2 some justice. I'm not too sure what to make of the X's, though, and the XK sure ain't no E type.

Rob