multiple owners

You do not say what year range you are looking at. I would read the report to see who the owners were but it would not surprise me if they changed hands a lot. This is not unusual for luxury cars.

35 years in the retail auto industry, I have owned and still own Jaguar sedans, a 6.0 XJS and an E-type. I have never seen this phenomena before where a 5 to 10 year old cars has had 3 to 8 owners.

That is interesting, but I probably wouldn't count auctions and dealers as owners......

I was about to post the exact same question but found this. I am talking about some mid 2000's XK convertibles have 5,6 or 7 owners. I didn't think auctions and dealers (middlemen) showed up in the history as legitimate owners. Are they not considered "pass through" owners? F_O_R... other than the Nikasil cylinder disaster (fixed in 2000) what other sore spots did the 2000's XK series have? Wiring? Transmission? Leakage? Thanks.

Luxury car buyers buy them new. Once they are not new and start developing expensive problems they buy another new luxury car. Pretenders without money for repairs buy them second hand and soon lose control of the repair costs and they become third, fourth, fifth hand etc, etc. That said I might buy a pristine, low mile XK for the right price as a weekend car. There are guides to used XK's on the web I suggest you read.

"Pretenders?" So people that let someone take the original 20 percent depreciation are "pretenders?" That might apply to "Bimmer," Benz, Lexus and now Audi used car buyers but not so much XK8s. Also, XK8s aren't plagued with "expensive repairs." The first series 4.0 engines had timing chain tensioner issues, which were not pervasive. The 4.2 and 5.0 engine cars are actually quite reliable and durable. But since I am apparently a "pretender" with 30+ years in the auto industry and owner of a `67 E-type, `88 XJ6, `95 XJ12, `95 XJS 6,0 and an XJ8 I wouldn't really know much about the subject.