Volvo 1800

James Walshe on how to buy the best example of Jag’s XJ for the Nineties

(1996-2002)

ASKING £9450 PRICE ENGINE 767cc/4-cyl/OHV POWER 25bhp@4800rpm ...

FANCY A PUNT? ‘Online auctions – just too easy!’ ...

Practical, with searing pace and saloon car practicality, relatively stable prices allow this ultimate Eighties Ford to remain one of the hottest modern classics to buy

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s