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We make no bones about it. We love all things Jag.<\/p>\n

In fact we love the touchstone British brand so much that we’re going to dedicate a whole month’s worth of features on the subject.<\/p>\n

From July 15 All things Jag will be emblazoned across these portals. Stay tuned for that.<\/p>\n

But in the meantime we couldn’t resist sharing with you the spectacularly burly lines of John Steed’s XJ12 C from weird seventies special agent series The New Avengers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was a tweaked, tuned and pumped version of Jag’s pillarless XJ Coup\u00e9<\/a> that rocked its delightful dozen cylinders to the tune of 5.3 litres.<\/p>\n

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The most famous of these british beauties was of course the Broadspeed Racing<\/a> prepared version (above).<\/p>\n

A handful of these 550 horsepower beauties were fielded in the late seventies by the much maligned British Leyland<\/a>. Apparently they set good qualification times but reliability issues meant they were never very successful.<\/p>\n

Same old Leyland story then.<\/p>\n

Finished in British Racing Green<\/a> and driven by an elegant man in Savlle Row tailoring and a bowler hat as seen in the video below we think you’ll agree this car takes the biscuit.<\/p>\n

By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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