Jaguar XF XF, X250

An executive saloon that rides and steers better than the German three, with a cabin that still feels special. It was expensive new and it's remarkably cheap now.

Overview

The X250 is the sedan Jaguar XF, built 2007–2015 and facelifted in 2011. 2 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €6,500–€18,550, and 0 of the 2 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The 3.0 D AJD-V6 is both the cheapest way in, from €8,500, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylesedanProduction2007–2015
Platform siblingsX250 Sportbrake wagonFacelift (LCI)2011
What changed at the 2011 facelift
New nose and lights; 2.2 diesel added with stop-start; Eight-speed ZF automatic on most engines. The engine changes are the ones that matter, a car built in the changeover year can carry either engine, so check the engine code on the block rather than the registration date.

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 20072010

The 1 variants sold before the 2011 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

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BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
3.0 DAJD-V6diesel20092010240 PS500 NmR37€6,500€16,000€8,500BuyView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20112015

The 2 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

2 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

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BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
2.2 DDW12diesel20112015200 PS450 NmR33€8,200€18,550€10,400BuyView
3.0 DAJD-V6diesel20112015240 PS500 NmR37€7,100€17,450€9,300BuyView

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

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2.2 D DW12
3.0 D AJD-V6

● full year · arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2011 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€9k€10kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓3.0 D AJD-V6: Buy, risk 3, good buy €8,5003.0 D2.2 D DW12: Buy, risk 3, good buy €10,4002.2 D
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. R / R-S cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€8,5003.0 D AJD-V6
Median good buy€10,400across 2 engines
Dearest good buy€10,4002.2 D DW12
Full range€6,500€18,550P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · 3.0 D AJD-V6 highlighted as best value

€10k€15kGood buy
3.0 D AJD-V6€8,5002.2 D DW12€10,400

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

The gear selector failing to rise on start-up, the dashboard vents refusing to rotate open, or both happening together. Both are motorised theatre pieces driven by small actuators, and those actuators fail with age and use. Low battery voltage triggers the same symptoms, so the battery is worth eliminating first.
Check: Start the car and watch the selector rise and the vents rotate. Do it twice, because an intermittent fault is the usual first stage, and check the battery's age before blaming the motors.
ElectricalcommonDetectable at viewingevidence: documented80170k km

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 2 times: R / R-S cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Best value: 3.0 V6 diesel, which is quick, quiet and the engine these were built around. The 2.2 four-cylinder is the cheaper car to run and the sensible high-mileage choice. Check the rotary gear selector and the vents deploy on start-up, because those motors fail and they're the first thing a buyer notices. So scan every module rather than the engine alone, and treat a car with a tired battery as a car with a list of faults.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

3.0 D AJD-V6 : from €6,500, risk 3

2.2 D DW12 : from €8,200, risk 3

Lowest risk

3.0 D AJD-V6 : risk 3, good buy at €8,500

2.2 D DW12 : risk 3, good buy at €10,400