Euro Trash Comparison: BMW 3.0 Bavaria VS Jaguar XJ6 1972 

I am very excited about both of these things, can't wait to finish up the 911 and get these into the garage

M5 ,no but 735i ,the 5 series is a shorter car ,i also have a 520, 523i and a 535i being the last from 1980 the first from 74 with the same body and not forget the 645i from 75/6 that only in the 2000´s reapeared or the huge coupé from BMW ,don´t have much money but most of the cars i own were ofered ,because no one wanted them and bought one or two for less than 500€ runing and with perfect body ,also have or had 8 02 ,the 5 2002 ,one 1602 and a 1502 the more recent exactelly like my 2002tii(for free) sold it for 50.000€ ,5 years ago

Jag seats are a lot more comfy imho.

​@ADDvancedGarage I had the 3.0s. Fully loaded. All nice leather seats, sunroof, etc. Not as stiff feeling like the those vinyl ones. My dad had that Bavaria in the late 70's.

@@sundown798 i have a four door 3.0CSi from 74 or 75 but if we go back in time BMW was making litle cars like the other model from VW sold with the beetle in three volume shape in the 60´s that design in a smaller body was BVMW with 32 h.p.but i´ve colected all powerfull cars since late 60´s from BMW being a 68 coupé like in the 70´s the 2800 cs coupé i also own but with older finishings and already with some power like the BMW 2000 both my fathers cars

Definitely a lot more rare, for sure! The triple SU 4.2 XK is geeking me out tho, and should be a lot more powerful

not more rare but being a bmw they trew them to the junkyard, the Jaguar was already reconised as one of the best brands in the world and the BMW this was the first with this level of luxury and power being their objective be like Mercedes but they never did ,after the end of rolls royce in the 80´s, Mercedes become the best brand of cars in the world@@addvancedgarage

for those who think , Jaguar ,Rolls Royce, Bentley ,Mini still exist they are nothing more than glorified BMW´s and for those who think Rover stoped existing ,maybe because there aren´t Land-Rover´s(now called Defender) or Range-Rover´s where they live but again nothing but glorified BMW´s , had a Defender 110 to work with 2.5 turbo-diesel bmw engine, as the 618 from actual Rover that i send it to BMW garage because it as the 1.8 turbo-diesel engine from BMW as in 525TDS or 318TDS ,in some countries they could have diferent engines like the gasoline 620 had the 2.0 Vtec from Honda . Rover did was a mess between honda and BMW in court of law discussing to whom it belonged ,like the MG 75 had the diesel engine available on the Honda Accord diesel who had not disel engine´s till the 2000´s ,than apeared the 2.0 CDTi

​@@RUfromthe40s BMW doesn't own Jaguar/Land rover

@@stevedickson5853 who owns it now till 2010 was BMW ,today i´m not aware of changes but rover was taken from honda to BMW with a time after court when both brands joined in the motorization of the cars i had a 618 turbo diesel fromm BMW as i had to go to BMW stand and garage to fix some litle problems on the engine but in diferent countries diferent engines as i heard someone saying he never saw a 618 from Rover ,like the MG 75 diesel was using the Hoda´s diesel engine ,first one as before Honda didn´t had diesel cars

My plan is to get both running, and evaluate. Excited for both of them for different reasons

I had 1 electrics failure in 1.5 years of XJ6 ownership. Worn alternator brushes, quick fix. It had sat since the 70s and everything still worked. Things got bad with the facelifts.

Yeah.... just wish it wasn't yellow. And primrose is a super rare color. If it was BRG the choice would be a lot easier.

@@addvancedgarage that collour is not pretty but not ugly... thats the minimal problem... as you know a manual jag in the states is rare yo find, not here in europe.

Interesting. What about RHD models? Is the turn signal reversed, towards the shifter?

@@addvancedgarage I don't know about the RHD models, mine's LHD.

No it was'nt. It was changed because of EU standardisation @75/76@@addvancedgarage

Jag for sure. BMW has a couple holes in the floor, but it's still real solid

It seems like a nice car and mechanically sound, but mine isn't running yet so I can't give much advice. So far the parts have been not that expensive; the one thing you need to watch out for is that the resale value is fairly low on jaguars, so you need to be careful you don't wind up underwater.

Out of garage space

Crazy rare, can't wait to drive this thing!

bavaria is way more rare, much harder to find things for.... that said a lot of newer BMW parts are compatible/upgrades for it.

@@addvancedgarage I think you've answered your question. BMW it is

I'm going to throw some parts at the Jag and see what happens

That's entirely a possibility.

Right now neither is drivable so….