Become the most stylish entrepreneur in the Netherlands with this Jaguar pickup

Who drives American pickups in the Netherlands? Contractor. So we hereby appeal: Ditch those unsightly giants and opt for something more stylish, something with more class. Opt for this great Jaguar XJ8 Pickup.

Somewhere in the United States there’s a hero walking around. Someone who once thought a 1998 Jaguar XJ8 would make the perfect base for a pickup truck and then threw their money into it.

Jaguar XJ8 pickup quite expensive

The man couldn’t help it either, as the rear of his beautiful Jaguar XJ8 was crushed by a fallen tree during a storm. He decided not to demolish the car but to save it.

Are there more flatbed XJs converted in the world? No doubt but not too much. So the asking price of $29,000 for this model is understandable, but also a bit high.

The Jaguar is being offered on the eBay auction site and does not appear to be meeting its reserve price at the time of writing. He has run just over 150,000 kilometers.

The conversion to the pickup seems to have been done properly

The 1998 XJ8 – model code: X308 – has a 4.0-liter V8 with an output of 294 hp and 393 Nm of torque on board. The engine is mated to a five-speed ZF automatic transmission.

At first glance the Jag is in good condition. The conversion to the pickup seems to have been a success. Like American trucks, the XJ8 has a sliding window behind the seats and a tailgate that tilts down.

The XJ of the first generation is particularly popular as a pickup

A simple Google search tells us that the first generation Jaguar XJ is very popular with converters. We’ve already found eight. We also encountered an XJ40 (1986 – 1994) and an X300 (1994 – 1997).