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I owned a 1982 XJS for many years and now have a 1978 SC. They are different cars, the 911 is a sports car and the XJS is a GT. The XJS is very comfortable for 1,000 mile drives. As someone said, the XJS is very thirsty. They are both costly to maintain; I don’t think they’d be much different if they were previously well maintained.
On my XJS it was ultimately the American components that failed; the Delco A/C compressor seized and the GM transmission failed. In the transmission a snap ring on the first gear clutch pack broke. GM got the extra 3 cents it would have cost to put in a better snap ring and I got a $1,000 failure.
For it’s size the V12 never produced much power. The heads were pretty crude and fuel consumption kept engine state of tune down. V12 sounds nice but it’s 80 to 100 hp/litre that get the job done.
Last edited by Hladun; 04-25-2006 at 10:45 AM..
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