Jaguar XJ (X351)

This is the catalogue record of the Jaguar XJ (X351), one of 10 models Jaguar Land Rover has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2009. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Jaguar XJ (X351) properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Jeep Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Nissan Nissan 370Z, the Nissan Nissan Leaf — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Jaguar XJ (X351) reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol: / 3.0 L supercharged Jaguar AJ-V6 engine / AJ V6 / 5.0 L Jaguar AJ-V8 engine / AJ Gen III V8 / 5.0 L AJ Gen III supercharged V8 / Diesel: / 3.0 L Ford A; kerb weight is recorded at XJ: Diesel: 1796 kg / Petrol: 1755 kg / Supercharged: 1892 kg XJ-L: Diesel: 1813 kg / Petrol: 1773 kg / Supercharged: 1915 kg; drive goes through 6-speed automatic / 8-speed automatic (2013 onwards); the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive / all-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Jaguar Land Rover story

Within Jaguar Land Rover's own catalogue the Jaguar XJ (X351) sits alongside the Jaguar C-X17 (2013), the Jaguar E-Pace, the Jaguar F-Pace, the Jaguar I-Pace. The record names the Jaguar XJ (X350) / Jaguar XJ (X358) as its predecessor and the class = Full-size luxury car (F) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Ian Callum (design director: 2005–2008) / Giles Taylor (2006, 2008). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Birmingham (Castle Bromwich Assembly) / India: Pune (JLR India).

On the record

For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 19 mpg combined, which works out near $4,200 a year in fuel at current prices.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Jaguar XJ (X351) was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.