"XK 120 The beginning of the Jaguar Golden age. Took the world by storm when launched in 1948 and initiated the basis of the perennial XK engine. Made a legend (and a Knight) out of Jag chief and design boss William Lyons – "
Jaguar XJR-S
OK, it was a lumbering brute, the XJS. Early editions were plagued by unreliability and rust – it was an honorouble conception but a badly executed late Leyland-Era attempt to bring the Jaguar label back into the arena of the suave GT.
But boy, didn’t the facelift version with the V12 R treatment, make up for it?
There’s something brutally flowing, and period-correct about the long, low profile of the later cars. Tom Walkinshaw Racing had a capitalised on success in the Touring car championships in the mid eighties by producing a tuned version – and Jag capitalised on the popularity of these dropped monsters by bringing out their own version.
And, of course, being turned on by the ephemera of car culture, we loved these scans of the brochure from the last version of the XJR-S – and we think it’s easy to see how this car was a prescient echo of the good things that would eventually come again to the marque.
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always loved these Jags. pretty affordable now too,,,
its nice but its not the xjc coupe,nice in twr livery,even better in b.r.g. and driven by steed in the new avengers inprobably reeling in a formula ford around a track.
any chance of a feature on that one….
also remember the lister jags.they were good for serious performance,i seem to recall that performance car always had the features,along with koenig ferraris and amgs when they were not just a trim level.