40 years ago Jaguar was making some of its worst, and most unreliable autos. My wife had a 1986 XJ6-L. It was an incredibly solid, safe car, but so unreliable that the independent Jaguar service specialist not only sent her Christmas cards, but birthday greetings. They were making a fortune off of the terrible build quality and general unreliability of Jaguars in those days, just before Ford made the blunder of purchasing them. When Ford tired of the $ bleeding they sold them to Tata Motors, and they seem to have brought them around. But now this.
When Ford bought them I hoped that Ford would go in heavy and overhaul Jaguar’s engineering and supplier chain, but alas, no.
For sure, the XKE is without a doubt one of the most beautiful cars in history. They always been that beautiful high maintenance woman who will drive you insane if you stay with her. As you say now this.