Soon to be XKR owner

[StormtrooperTK-421]

Hello all,

I bought a 2011 XKR convertible yesterday but, until I pick it up next Saturday, I'm sure I'll wake up at some point and realise it was just a delicious dream.

The car in question is a 2011 XKR convertible (picture attached if I can work out how to do it).

34,000 with speed and black packs. Think it might have the performance active exhaust - I'll deal with this query in the XK section along with some other newby questions.

Don't wish to waffle on in my first post but I thought it acceptable to provide some context to my purchase. I'm in my late 30s and I decided 3 years ago to go for the 2 car option and have a comfortable cruiser for the commute and a weekend toy. I bought an L322 Range Rover and TVR Chimaera. The TVR was a long term itch I wanted to scratch and was to be the forerunner of a Tuscan S purchase when funds allowed. Much as I loved the TVR I found myself driving it less and less, especially as with a young son we couldn't go out in it together as a family.

I sold the TVR last autumn but with the Range Rover a firm family favourite my wife is taking it on instead of her company BMW 3 Series, allowing me the opportunity to find something new. The criteria was it had to be swift, fun to drive, will fit the 3 of us and have some curb appeal. Having considered all manner of different cars the decision came down to an E63 AMG and an XKR. We loved the Jekyll and Hyde nature of the AMG and it was naturally very comfortable for the three of us. However, the XKR won through because of (in my eyes at least) its classical beauty. Being a convertible means my boy won't be claustrophobic on the back and keeping the Range Rover means we have a family wagon for those cold, wet, miserable winter days.

Anyway, I look forward to learning from your collective wisdom and getting to know you a little better

[Leo]

That is a lovely car, and I am sure that you are really going to enjoy it!

I assume that you have tried your son in the back, and that he fits it OK: There is negligible footroom, and it is very difficult to get in and out. The back seat of mine is never used for that reason.

[StormtrooperTK-421]

Ah thanks. Fortunately my wife is quite short and with him being only 6 he fits in there a treat. 

[StormtrooperTK-421]

oh yeah, should have also said that a little trick a dealer showed me is to store in the memory settings one where the passenger seat is all the way forward. That way, so when he's getting in the back, press the setting and then press the one that works for my wife once he's in.