Shifting gears oneself was rarely, if ever done in a 1990s Jaguar. Manuals were available, but seldom specified: with the arrival of the S-Type 3.0 V6 in 1999, buyers were looking at the first all-new manual Jaguar sports saloon for more than a decade.
IGM Pedigree Motors’ two-owner-from-new car was dispatched from Merritts Jaguar Limited on December 23, 1999. It had covered just over 80,000 miles by 2015, its owners servicing the car at franchised garages (Jaguar, Peugeot and Citroën) on age, rather than mileage intervals.
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