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JAGUAR XK120, 1949-54A car-starved Britain, still trundling around in perpendicular pre-war hangover motors, glimpsed the future in October of 1948 at the Earls Court Motor Show in London. The sensation of the show was the Jaguar Super Sports. It was sensational to look at from any angle, with a purity of line that didn't need chrome embellishment. |
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The Jaguar XKR "Silverstone"Naming the car XKR "Silverstone" is intended to awaken associations with Jaguar successes in motor sports, which have inextricably linked to this legendary English race circuit for the past fifty years. The special edition is equipped with numerous accessory options from the Jaguar "R Performance", which were originally designed for the emphatically sporty roadster-study, XK 180. Further special "Silverstone" accessories in both fittings and visuals aim to underpin the individual and attractive character of this high-performance sports car. |
Concept Jaguar F-TypeThe new Jaguar F-Type Concept roadster, the most compact Jaguar sports car in more than forty years, presents the company's ideas for a roadster that would take Jaguar into a new segment of the global market. The car is a fine example of the standards Jaguar will strive to maintain. While XK 180 was designed around existing mechanical components , which exercised constraints on the car's size and layout, there were no such limitations on the roadster concept. Therefore the F-Type is more compact than XK 180 and 25 inches (645 mm) shorter than XKR. |
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Jaguar S-TypeJaguar’s new S-Type sports saloon, the company’s most eagerly awaited new model for decades, makes its world debut at the Birmingham International Motor Show. The new S-Type, designed and developed at Jaguar’s Engineering Centre at Whitley, Coventry, will be built at the company’s Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham and goes on sale in March 1999. |
Jaguar XKROnce in a lifetime, you discover a sports car that transcends all others. A car with a wild beauty of line; instinctive, animal grace. Created from a pedigree of innovation and daring; of race winners and record breakers. Born to set your pulse racing. At the wheel, unleash awe-inspiring, effortless power; harnessed with breathtaking agility and control. Experience silken refinement, and sporting elegance. Sensuous, self assured. Supremely rewarding. The fastest mainstream production Jaguar ever. The XKR. |
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Jaguar Mk1, 1956-60In 1955 the Coventry company added its first unitary-built car, the new compact 2.4-litre saloon - known retrospecitvely as the Mk1 - to create its most complete model range ever. On first sight you'd think someone had customised a Mk2, filling in the rear wheel arches and glass area to create something that looked more menacing than its better-known successor. |
JAGUAR XK150, 1957-61Take the lithe athleticism and sensational performance of the 1948 Jaguar XK120, add nine years of road car evolution, a beefier body, technological spin-offs from five Le Mans victories and you end up with the Jaguar XK150. Yet the XK150 remains a slightly overlooked in-betweeny in the Jaguar canon: to some eyes it looks a little bloated and lacks the primal, pure, raw magnetism of the leaner XK120 and XK140; others prefer the few more mph and the instant and obvious statement of the later E-type. |
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SS100 Jaguar, 1936-40At the 1935 Olympia motor show William Lyons's Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company debuted the first true Jaguars, for that was the model name he had chosen for his new range. Most stunning of all was the 2½-litre Jaguar SS100 open two-seater. These days the glorious SS100 stands out as the quintessential traditional pre-war sports car. Back then there was nothing traditional about it at all. In a word, it was flash, and these early Jaguars were often dismissed by the old guard of the Bentley, Lagonda and Invicta brigade as "Wardour Street Bentleys;" in other words the kind of car to appeal to cigar-chomping theatrical agents with a penchant for astrakhan coats topped offed with a garnish of fur. |
E-type Ecstasy / By Dave SelbyJaguar's F-type Concept car has had tongues wagging and jaws sagging in admiration at Detroit and Geneva, but whatever its fate it will never eclipse the original E-type. The E-Type – Sensationally fast, sensationally cheap Why? Because not only was the E-type drop-dead stunning and sensationally fast, it was also sensationally cheap - for what it was. That was then. And it's also the case now in a post-boom market with plentiful supply. Consider this: at the height of the boom in the late 1980s the best E-type roadsters were commanding £100,000 and a little more. Today £30,000 gives a world of choice among better examples of roadsters. |
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JAGUAR MK II, 1960-69In the early 1950s Jaguar was riding high, winning at Le Mans and in the home and export markets with the feline XK120 sportscar and the gargantuan MKVII saloon. In 1955 the Coventry company added its first unitary-built car, the new compact 2.4-litre saloon - known retrospecitvely as the Mk1 - to create its most complete model range ever. |
JAGUAR’S
Would you like to see
Storage Facility 6”, says Howard Davis in a mysteriously subdued voice,
as if he’s trying to sell me an Armani-suit that just fell off a truck.
My immediate answer is no, since I have my head buried in the engine-compartment
of the original XJ220-prototype, displayed in Jaguars Heritage Thrust-museum.
But something tells me, that Howards invitation is something you should
not refuse. So I answer that I would love to, and we ponder off to Storage
Facility 6, whatever that is. |
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The Jaguar T-TypeJaguar's T-type saloon will have sporty rear-drive-style handling thanks to clever tuning of its four-wheel-drive system. Sources say the new car's fixed 30/70 per cent front/rear torque split means it will stay true to Jaguar's heritage and have sufficient driving brio to give the benchmark BMW 3-series a tough time. Its straight-line speed should certainly be impressive. From launch the T-type will be powered by a 3.0-litre V6 producing at least 240bhp, pushing it well into BMW 328i territory. |
New Jaguar XJ PrototypeWould you like to see Storage Facility 6”, says Howard Davis in a mysteriously subdued voice, as if he’s trying to sell me an Armani-suit that just fell off a truck. My immediate answer is no, since I have my head buried in the engine-compartment of the original XJ220-prototype, displayed in Jaguars Heritage Thrust-museum. But something tells me, that Howards invitation is something you should not refuse. So I answer that I would love to, and we ponder off to Storage Facility 6, whatever that is. |
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