I remember us spending a while discussing the mechanism there, coming to the conclusion between us that it was "very clever, but a really, really stupid idea."
That pretty much summed up most of my findings doing work on a friend's Jag XJ6 (which I very nearly bought off him more than once). Lovely, lovely car to drive, but an absolute dog of a thing to work on - even with the 3.2 straight six in rather than the sprawling V12. Suspension wise, I don't know what the engineers Jag were smoking when they came up with the setup on the rear end of that car...
The main thing which put me off buying it - and yes, even so I still regret it - was the astronomical price of parts, even from 3rd party sellers.
What really hacked me off though was that the guy who did buy it proceeded to go and scrap it only a few months later...we know there was nothing massively wrong with it to warrant that either, but sadly this was back when the price of scrap metal had gone through the roof...
£650, this could have been on my driveway...



Well...it was on my driveway a bunch of times, as I borrowed it quite frequently while it was owned by my mate and he had several cars on the go. Longest stint was a couple of months when I was waiting for my 107 to arrive from the factory...Still kick myself for not buying it!
Also, if I'd ever had someone suggest to me that they would consider lowering a Jag ans sticking a sports exhaust on it, I'd have whacked them over the head with the workshop manual. On this thing it really worked though, and it gave the thing a truly menacing stance. Exhaust was only "tastefully" loud as well...even if we never did manage to stop the nearside rear silencer from rattling against the bumper support bracket.