United Kingdom marque
Jaguar in the UK
Jaguar has carried the name since 1935 and sits with Land Rover inside Jaguar Land Rover. It stopped taking UK orders for its petrol and diesel range during 2024 while it prepares an electric relaunch, so for now it is effectively a used market marque here. The aluminium bodied XE, XF and F-Pace need a bodyshop with the right training after an accident, which is worth checking in the history of any car you look at.
There is no reliability figure for Jaguar as a marque that this site could cite. What circulates instead is survey data from panels that select themselves, warranty claim rates published by companies with a product to sell, and averages built by choosing which years and variants to count.
Each of those choices moves the answer by several percentage points, and none of them is a measurement a reader could go and check. A number printed beside the Jaguar badge here would be our arithmetic wearing somebody else's name.
What is genuinely knowable is one car at a time: its own invoices, its own service record and what the common repairs on that model actually cost when they arrive.
No fault ordering is published for this marque
Model by model
Every Jaguar line we hold a record for
| Model | Years sold in the UK | Body styles | Fuel types | Fuel options |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XE | Not recorded | Saloon | Petrol, Diesel | 2 |
| XF | Not recorded | Saloon, Estate | Petrol, Diesel | 2 |
| XJ | 1968 to 2019 | Saloon | Petrol, Diesel | 2 |
| X-Type | 2001 to 2009 | Saloon, Estate | Petrol, Diesel | 2 |
| F-Pace | Not recorded | SUV | Petrol, Diesel, Plug-in hybrid | 3 |
| F-Type | Not recorded | Coupé, Convertible | Petrol | 1 |
Before you buy one
What the Jaguar record does and does not settle
There are 6 Jaguar model lines here and the oldest of them went on sale in Britain in 1968. Of those, none are still sold new and 6 have finished. A finished line is not automatically a worse buy, but it fixes the newest example you will ever find and it decides how long the parts supply has had to run. The sales period is missing for 4 of these lines, and those pages say as much rather than printing a range we cannot cite.
Between them those models have been sold here with 3 different fuel types: petrol, diesel and plug-in hybrid. That spread is the practical reason one figure for the whole marque would be no use to anybody standing on a forecourt. The alternative fuel discount that used to shave a little off hybrids ended on the same date, so hybrid badging no longer changes the bill. Diesels carry a particulate filter, and a car used only for short cold journeys will keep blocking it until the driving pattern changes.
Those lines were bodied 5 ways: saloon, estate, SUV, coupé and convertible. On the convertibles, look at the roof drainage channels: blocked ones put rainwater into the footwell instead of out through the sill. The four wheel drive versions carry more driveline than the two wheel drive ones, and driveshaft boots and propshaft joints are all inspected.
Because the oldest line here reaches back to 1968, examples across this marque fall under all three road tax regimes: engine size for anything first registered before 1 March 2001, CO2 bands from then until 31 March 2017, and the flat standard rate for anything registered on or after 1 April 2017. That is why the tax figure on each model page names the year and the engine it applies to, and why it is safer to read the V5C than to take a rate from a badge.
What goes wrong on a Jaguar is decided by the individual car and the person who owned it last, not by the marque. Two examples of the same model and year, one serviced on time and one not, are in completely different condition, which is the honest reason a marque average would mislead you even if somebody published one. The invoices for the car in front of you name what was actually replaced, when, and at what mileage. Read those instead.