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JAGUAR X-TYPE (2001-2009)
Two decades on, like its driver Inspector Barnaby, the X-Type still looks youthful. Petrol versions in 2.5 and 3.0-litre V6 guise came first, both endowed with all-wheel drive. The 2.1-litre V6 (badged as 2.0) followed in 2002 in front-drive form only, with a 2-litre diesel in 2003 and the 2.2TD in 2005. The handy 2004-on estate version was a first for Jaguar.
Sadly, despite its virtues, with those Blue Oval underpinnings, executive car buyers struggled to see it as anything other than a posh Mondeo and residuals suffered as a result.
