Just got an XJ8, Pretty much for free.. The owner got sick of it sitting in her yard because it wouldn't crank... All I needed was $100.00 and a tow truck.. Sat in my yard for a year before I decided to do something with it.. A fuel pump and new battery plus $900.00 later and it's my everyday driver.. lol.. I could finally give the Camaro SS a break.. Great on gas for a V8.. I love it!!
@geoffk7773 жыл бұрын
The Jag is a nice car, but the E39 5 Series is the best one that BMW ever made, and it's aged into a near classic. Sadly, it was replaced by the hideous and clunky E60, and it never again reached the elegance and dexterity of the E39 model.
@petarpelovski40393 жыл бұрын
having had an 530i e39 and spent quite some time driving and fixing a friends e39 540 i disagree, everything in the engina bay is made of plastic, petrol engines, especialy the v8's are running at redicilous temps and are coocking the plastics, causing constant coolant leaks, they had even more electrical gremlins than my p38 range rover(i didn't thhink that was possible) and as a drivers car i wasn't too impresed either - my old e34 was sooo much more involving to drive, so much simpler to maintain and so much more trouble free. It's ride was also a lot smoother then the e39. Only plus side of e39 is it was a little flatter in the corners(but having no lsd it couldn't really take advantage of this) and interior space and materials were better, but as a machine i was very disapointed.
@MisoElEven Жыл бұрын
@@petarpelovski4039 It depends.. the 540i can have 2 different engines and thats not counting all the smaller changes over the years... :D they developed a fix for something, then spent 3 months fixing a problem that arised from that previous fix etc. :DD also there were other things that had an effect on performance of the car overall. Like current VW group cars...order an Octavia with a "hitch" (or whatever its called) and you will get bigger brakes than without the hitch despite Škoda never telling you anything about it :D (if the car is expected to tow shit then it needs bigger brakes..) BMW does and did the same back then but also with the engine, the suspension and even the steering.
@santisizable3 жыл бұрын
Don’t both of these cars look better than current models…. Jag looks great and gets my vote. Looking for a decent one now.
@cockshield Жыл бұрын
It's heartwarming to see that from these humble beginnings, 22 years of success for Richard Hammand hasn't changed him. He was a complete and utter sausage then, and a complete and utter sausage now.
@g00dfeeling6 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't XJ be compared with 7 series?
@athenastarbrite29556 жыл бұрын
Yes. Both are in the premium large class. BMW 5 is premium mid-size class.
@lewis726 жыл бұрын
It depends if you're comparing external dimensions or internal dimensions !
@commodore6655 жыл бұрын
my thoughts too
@lotusjaggarage29895 жыл бұрын
Based on price yes but in range no
@TittyRoy4 жыл бұрын
Indeed... 🤦♂️
@Porsche996driver6 жыл бұрын
The Jag just has a classic look.
@jedw6 жыл бұрын
I bought an XJ8this year for £895 no joke.. and it's wonderful. Best car ever the x308!
@IHATEYANKS415 жыл бұрын
jedw how is it going ?
@jrea4245 жыл бұрын
Great isn't it! One in top top condition no more thank 2k.. great load of car for the price
@paulfowell5253 Жыл бұрын
The same Jag is still on the road and has never failed an MOT. That's unexpected!!!
@aerojohnw6 жыл бұрын
Ridiculous. I've owned 3 E39 540's and this video has no relevance as to why I love them.
@skelejp99824 жыл бұрын
@Zaid Mousa I just bought a X308 2000 Build Daimler Super V8, English Luxury combined with a US Muscle-car Engine. I tried to find a SWB(only 79 made), but U can believe me, the LWB Daimler Super V8 is Close to Rocket Science.
@lorangajapp80863 жыл бұрын
@alanrtment porter Because they are crap?
@sveinwilhelmborvik42773 жыл бұрын
Don't be so dam serious.....
@promerops6 жыл бұрын
Overly flippant and lacking in any real information.
@TheFlemburger5 жыл бұрын
promerops so normal review from these guys then lol
@hakeemsd70m5 жыл бұрын
Terrible comparison. The XJ8 competes with the 7 series, not the run-in-the-mill 5 series.
@ericzhang30163 жыл бұрын
The Current one is the same size as a 7, but the old one was smaller
@v12mercedes-benz724 жыл бұрын
Bmw is very good car i owned e34 and e39 before,but today i like this jaguar
@DoubleDeckerAnton5 жыл бұрын
I like both these cars...!!!.👍😊
@BrothersGrim20125 жыл бұрын
Jag is the winner every time you can’t beat the beautiful XJ
@user-zt9qq1fs7n5 жыл бұрын
I think the question here should be where is the sun?
@hitone43195 жыл бұрын
haarp ate it.........
@leonkloonsner4 жыл бұрын
England doesn’t have the sun
@michaelv68702 жыл бұрын
I had 4 BMWs and four Jags with the last one being a 2012 XJL SC. Ever since Jaguar decided no to build a new XJ, I`m pretty much done with the brand. I now have a 2023 850i GC coming.
@sailingyoumeandjosapea67705 жыл бұрын
I had an xjr 6 about 15 years ago and it was wonderful so today years on I’m thinking of buying an Xj 308 over a much more sensible newer bmw 5 TD I know crazy right ! Should I do it ? Should say I’ve never had BMW
@geoffphillips80295 жыл бұрын
Hamster being wonderfully biased!
@ashtondimovski70742 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm there may be a bit of patriotism going on, but in fairness, I’ve driven both cars, and his conclusions are right - the BMW and Jaguar both do “serious” very well, but the Jag does “fun” a lot better.
@1972juankarlos6 жыл бұрын
so great to rescue all these videos. Hamster is the best
@dragonbutt6 жыл бұрын
Proto-top gear
@IHATEYANKS415 жыл бұрын
No way you would get a 540i as a company car these cars, you’d be given a poverty spec 320d
@tommyboy59245 жыл бұрын
Noicce gramma
@guill0t5203 жыл бұрын
Till you get smoked by a turbo remapped 320d
@ashrichardson88045 жыл бұрын
Did he just say 'good old fashioned spunk?',i've got that by the bucketload.
@Krezo2003 жыл бұрын
They tried to make this funny? I would say they failed big time
@ronbrock6153 Жыл бұрын
Also have to add this, damn Hammond was right fit back then.
@ronbrock6153 Жыл бұрын
So really we are sending Hammond to test the cars for stretch out room. That is like asking 3 liter pot if it can fit a 1 liter fill.
@e46M3_DakarYellow5 жыл бұрын
540i without the comfort seats?
@tcaudiobooks7373 жыл бұрын
Leccy sport seats are better than the comfort seats anyway. The contour comfort sport seats from the e38 though were the absolute best BMW seats ever.
@DilyanYankov-fe9jj2 жыл бұрын
jag xj = bmw 7 series not 5 series.......
@ashtondimovski70742 жыл бұрын
Not exactly mate. Dimensionally, the Jag is closer to the 7-series. But in weight, it’s usually closer to the 5-series (in fact the X350 onward was lighter, hence why most motoring journalists compare it’s drive to a 3-series). Interior space, weirdly, is closer to the 5-series unless you got the LWB version as pictured here. If they brought in a 7-Series, it wouldn’t be fair for BMW, because the XJ is just so much better a drive. The 5-Series, on the other hand, offers a closer drive to the Jag.
@rastryt6662 жыл бұрын
Nowadays you can get both for less than 5 grand lol
@keithwyatt25093 жыл бұрын
Jag all day! Have driven both!
@JM-io2uv3 жыл бұрын
The e39 is a way better drivers car mate
@AldershotDave2 жыл бұрын
It’s like watching Stan Laurel! 🤪
@IHATEYANKS415 жыл бұрын
Proper sleeper cars
@n136h5 жыл бұрын
What a load of bollocks this was
@Victor-DOOM4 жыл бұрын
Both legends
@docdildonica75152 жыл бұрын
Take the Jag all day everyday
@soundseeker635 жыл бұрын
Those 540s were/are badly in need of a proper LSD!
@marklowry87993 жыл бұрын
It would have undermined the M5.
@soundseeker636 жыл бұрын
18 years on and the E39 is still beautiful while the XJ8 looks like an antique. Compared to todays equivalent the tables have turned. Jaguar now make beautiful and modern cars and BMWs are ugly and common.
@stevenvanstadenvanstaden43176 жыл бұрын
I'm reporting you all to the taste police.
@stevenvanstadenvanstaden43176 жыл бұрын
Yes, my family had a lot more BMW reliability problems (four models) than I had with my Jaguars (seven different models). I can use a 1956 XK150 every day and on long trips (500 miles) with average cruising at 75 mph-plus without worries, and at the moment my oldest one is an X300 Daimler (Jaguar Sovereign in the US) on which I have replaced only the water pump apart from routine maintenance/servicing. I'm not a US citizen so had best not comment on Trump!
@ThirteenMatt6 жыл бұрын
The XJ looked like an antique when new that was the point, and the reason why it has not aged. Most people have troubles putting a date on the "classic" XJs (X300, X308 and less the X350), usually they just get that they are old cars in the good "collectible" way. And also they stand out of other cars a lot, you don't miss them. Whereas you can find E39s beautiful, but they did age (because their look is attached to their period), have a lot more "normal" styling, and people see them as old cars in the "used car" way. For the current production, BMW has mostly kept that way of doing: a styling that you recognize as a BMW, but without being too noticeable. They've just went more into "sporty" styling, but mostly everyone did, so... Jaguar on the other hand has in my opinion moved to a design that is merely "okay" and does not stand out at all. Before if you saw a Jaguar from a distance, you simply knew. Now it blends.
@TheFlemburger5 жыл бұрын
soundseeker63 blasphemy
@alecoswald78905 жыл бұрын
looks like an antique. you need to get your eyes checked lol .
@Tigerfire75 Жыл бұрын
I would say that the Audi A6 2.7t quattro is the best choice for executive car of this year
@marlonbaird60705 жыл бұрын
Cant compare. Bmw e39 best sedan made to date
@ashtondimovski70742 жыл бұрын
Ehhhhh gotta disagree with you there. It’s a great car, but it’s styling falls short of the Jag, and having driven both, it’s a very “serious” all the time car. That’s fine for highway cruising and if you like track days. But for a Sunday afternoon cruise or a bit of fun on a backroad, the relaxed elegance and sporting fun of the Jag is very hard to ignore.
@AldershotDave2 жыл бұрын
I’m sure the woman in the “family car” played the sister in a brother/sister combo in a programme in her younger years.
@britishcomposers6 жыл бұрын
A legroom test? With half-pint Hammond? He'd have enough legroom in the back of an XJS. Now if it were 6'5" Clarkson, it'd be a real test. No offence to the little guy.
@stevechristie25695 жыл бұрын
Short men belong in cars. Lanky men can take the bus (or the ferry to Brugge)
@followyourbliss1013 жыл бұрын
hilarious car review !
@emrvincenzo4 жыл бұрын
Do u have a god damn sun there in England?
@Menandmotors4 жыл бұрын
Our favourite tabloid!
@TheFlemburger5 жыл бұрын
Shouldn’t this test be with people that don’t know what’s going on
@gratler2 жыл бұрын
5:46 ah the bmw v8 sounds so nice :)
@Clarkecars Жыл бұрын
Only one has something in common with porcupines and it ain't the Jag.
@125southernnh25 жыл бұрын
Which one is still found on the road today?
@lotusjaggarage29895 жыл бұрын
Both though the bmw usually has more miles but there are less around
@ashtondimovski70742 жыл бұрын
Not many of the older BMWs around here in North America anymore sadly (when you factor how many were sold here, etc.). There’s definitely more old Jags, but they are garage queens and attainable dream cars where they are pampered and driven irregularly.
@kresienm90314 жыл бұрын
should have rather watched them race each other
@chriso84852 жыл бұрын
W567MCF lasted until 140,000 miles
@rarevintages69245 жыл бұрын
On This One I'm Gonna Have To Go With The Bmw Alll day Everyday. Anyone Agree With me?
@dannysamsam65273 жыл бұрын
In the early 2000s classy snobby people owned BMWs now thick plumbs own them
@chriso84852 жыл бұрын
Chavs with money or Sikhs with money. The Chavs will paint their wheels black however.
@Shift4g2 жыл бұрын
Depreciation for the masses
@yohan-electwordofguardthem91736 жыл бұрын
i preferd the jag interior ans tbe Bm exterior🙄
@sonnyblack08704 жыл бұрын
What’s the point of review like this?
@greathey12344 жыл бұрын
Fun
@clemmie45 жыл бұрын
My Annaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun!
@manteufel1964 Жыл бұрын
It's a pity he thinks he is capable of being a comedian and did'nt just do a review of the bloody cars.
@mohamadfathy32845 жыл бұрын
Sun ☀
@tsomeone9505 жыл бұрын
Jaguar looks horrible in 2019. BMW still looks respectable. That Jaguar won't make a statement any more
@1beck2en3ham5 жыл бұрын
@Matt Frazier Jaguar is low like sport cars and full of chrome like Rolls-Royce. BMW is high and fat like 2000 - 2019 cars. I prefer lower car.
@Inflator826 жыл бұрын
That was funny.
@raycroal4 жыл бұрын
was that funny?
@JonDingle8 ай бұрын
BMW - Bland Miserable Wheels. My brother had a 7 Series, much nicer car but hideously expensive to repair. More so than any Jaguar.
@waynusp16646 жыл бұрын
2nd comment...at least I called it!
@damianlugocantu96233 жыл бұрын
540 is better than a jaguar!!÷
@ashtondimovski70742 жыл бұрын
That’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. But I don’t share it. Both are fine cars, and have their pros and cons.
@bayareaomg6 жыл бұрын
this is hilarious
@raycroal4 жыл бұрын
is this hilarious?
@hunterhigginbotham59415 жыл бұрын
Ooo! Ooo! I think I can guess when this aired! Apr, 1st 2000? Because this video is more of a joke than my 3rd grade teacher... ... I like Richard Hammond, but seriously! This was cringe worthy!
@Max-eo6rv6 жыл бұрын
Hello
@undisputedheavyweightnose38106 жыл бұрын
Max Jemielity Hiya
@tonyhancock39126 жыл бұрын
Good day to you squire
@Bod89983 жыл бұрын
What adick
@g0753 Жыл бұрын
Бмв пизже
@cherokeegotti49034 жыл бұрын
Biased video.
@BirdogEd5 жыл бұрын
And 18 years later, the e39 5 series is the winner while the Jag turns out to be the loser with a piece of junk history. Respectfully yours.
@TheOfficialGlitchTTG2 жыл бұрын
679th like
@Emstonesgaming6 жыл бұрын
A 2018 Review from me. The jaguar is ugly and the Bimmer still looks good. Review over
@waynusp16646 жыл бұрын
Shame the first comment is wrong really!
@dragonbutt6 жыл бұрын
I like the old jag looks. Its very 'flat', not unlike american classics from the 60s and 70s. Makes hard cornering look hella impressive in it too. The BMW just looks like a Taxi :)
@michaelroache12876 жыл бұрын
I’ve had both the jag is 10x the car
@stringer-ik1pc6 жыл бұрын
B.m.w.=black man's wheels. (That goes for Asians too.) Great taxi.