{"id":27118,"date":"2012-06-08T11:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=27118"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:44:45","slug":"jaguar-xjr-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/jaguar-xjr-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguar XJR-S"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n

But boy, didn’t the facelift version with the V12 R treatment, make up for it?<\/p>\n

There’s something brutally flowing, and period-correct about the long, low profile of the later cars. Tom Walkinshaw Racing<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\t\t