Finished in the ultra-rare ‘Portfolio’ specification, ‘LJ58 XDX’ is a beautifully curated example of the ever-popular and slightly bonkers Jaguar XKR – and the reason it looks so good, apart from the fact it’s finished in Shadow Grey Metallic with a black leather interior, is that it’s spent the first 17 years of its life in Japan, a country where looking after cars properly has been elevated to an artform.
It's got just 43,000 miles on the clock too, and that mileage is supported by both a Mileage Verification Certificate and the XKR’s service history.

Regular followers will know that the latter is rare, the paperwork usually falling foul of the country’s strict adherence to GDPR regulations; we can usually see that a car has been looked after properly, but proving it is generally impossible.
Not here though, thanks to meticulous record-keeping by its only owner in Japan.

It’s been titivated to full UK-spec too, so the only way anyone will know that it hasn’t spent its entire life h...