{"id":24881,"date":"2022-06-18T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=24881"},"modified":"2022-06-18T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T13:03:40","slug":"junkyard-gem-2005-jaguar-x-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=24881","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 2005 Jaguar X-Type"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Premier Automotive Group phase of Ford’s<\/a> ownership of Jaguar<\/a>, it seemed to make sense to create a Jaguar that non-oligarchs could afford. By taking the Ford Mondeo<\/a> (sold as the Ford Contour<\/a>\/Mercury Mystique<\/a> on our shores) and adding luxury touches plus Jaguar styling, the X-TYPE<\/a> came into being and hit American showrooms starting in the 2002 model year. Fast-forward a decade or two and it’s no sweat to find entry-level European luxury sedans<\/a> lined up in your local Ewe Pullet<\/a>. Here’s a decal-enhanced ’05 X-TYPE 3.0 AWD<\/a> I found in a yard near Pikes Peak<\/a> a couple of months back.<\/p>\n

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This car shows<\/a> signs of having been loved dearly by its final owner. Since the paint is Topaz Metallic, which is sort of a gold shade, its name became Goldie.<\/p>\n

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Goldie was sweet, it would seem. Perhaps the dripping-blood decal indicates that Goldie’s sweetness was alloyed with cruelty.<\/p>\n

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Paw-print, bloody-claw-mark, and Jaguar stickers abound.<\/p>\n

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Goldie has eyes both at the top of the windshield\u00a0and<\/em> on the front bumper. Her headlights appear to leak blood.<\/p>\n

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Those who might criticize these customization touches come face-to-face with this message at the windshield’s lower edge.<\/p>\n

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How would such a treasured machine end up in a place like this? As we see here, at some point Goldie got hit hard in the right rear, and the crash damage was too severe to be worth fixing. I hope everyone involved was wearing their seat belts.<\/p>\n

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The interior looks to have been pretty nice before junkyard shoppers began prying off trim parts.<\/p>\n

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Someone bought the stick-on hood scoop and the “Leaper” hood ornament.<\/p>\n

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You can’t have too many JAGUAR emblems!<\/p>\n

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This is the newest junked Jaguar I’ve documented<\/a>; the oldest was a 1969 XJ6.<\/p>\n\n

Sometimes the best part of giving is the thank-you you’ll receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the Premier Automotive Group phase of Ford’s ownership of Jaguar, it seemed to make sense to create a Jaguar that non-oligarchs could afford. By taking the Ford Mondeo (sold as the Ford Contour\/Mercury Mystique on our shores) and adding luxury touches plus Jaguar styling, the X-TYPE came into being and hit American showrooms starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}