Jaguar

By: Graham Robson . The XJ-S was Jaguar's most controversial car. Despite offering a superb blend of performance and refinement it was a radical departure in style from the elegant E-type. It appeared at a time when fuel-thirsty luxury cars were...

By: Peter Crespin . The X300 was the first serious model development in collaboration with Ford and the cars benefited in quality terms as a result. Problems do exist, however, especially with the X308 models which followed in 1997. Though they are...

By: Peter Crespin . In 1968 the Jaguar XJ6 set new standards for luxury cars and spawned more than a dozen variants over the next 20 years, including the iconic 12 cylinder cars. This book guides you systematically though 3 different series of...

By: Anders Ditlev Clausager . Jaguar's series of XK sports cars used the remarkable twin overhead camshaft engine first exposed to the public in 1948 in the new XK120 two-seater, which took the motoring world by storm. For 1954 the XK120 was replaced by...

By: Brooklands Books . As introduced at the 1961 Geneva Show, the E-type came as a roadster or fixed-head coup with a 6-cylinder, 3.8, 265bhp engine. From 1964 the 4.2-litre engine was fitted but this offered little extra in the way of performance...

By: Brooklands Books . Launched ten years after the new E-type stunned the motoring world, the Series III with its V12 engine became one of the greatest sports cars ever built in England. It developed 272bhp at 5850 rpm, had four Zenith carburettors and...

By: Brooklands Books . It took several years for the XJ-S to be accepted as a car in its own right rather than as a replacement for the E-Type. By the mid-eighties it was a remarkably refined and sophisticated grand tourer, quite clearly differentiated...

By: Karl Ludvigsen . No sports-car introduction in history has had the impact of Jaguar's XK120 in 1948. Thrust into a dreary post-war world was a stunningly gorgeous roadster, its styling inspired by the best pre-war Italian design, powered by a...

By: Paul Skilleter . The XK Jaguar sports car continues to exert a very great appeal to enthusiasts in all countries, and the inevitable rise in price of both cars and parts has by no means led to a diminishing of interest in the type, indeed, more XKs...

By: Brooklands Books . The S-Type was introduced as an additional model to the Mk 11 but with the irs, as on the Mk 10. With some of the character of the Mk 11, it was available with the 3.4 and 3.8-litre, six-cylinder XK engine. The 420 and 420G was...

By: Graham Robson . After a twenty-year production period,  was time for the venerable XJS to bow ut but what was to replace it? Jaguar had been sold to Ford and was no longer as cash-strapped as it had been, but the XJS replacement would still have...

By: Peter Crespin . The XJ40 had a long development history and underwent sophisticated and thorough testing on several continents. Featuring an array of high-tech features such as a digital dashboard, it drove superbly and won the UK’s prestigious...