Jaguar Cars
The Jaguar XJ (X308) is one of 58 Jaguar Cars models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1997. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Jaguar XJ (X308) properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Toyota Toyota Prius, the Subaru Subaru Forester, the Porsche Porsche Boxster — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Jaguar XJ (X308) reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.2 L Jaguar AJ-V8 engine / Jaguar AJ-V8 / 4.0 L Jaguar AJ-V8 engine / Jaguar AJ-V8 / 4.0 L Supercharger / supercharged Jaguar AJ-V8 engine / Jaguar AJ-V8; kerb weight is recorded at SWB: 3968 lb / LWB: 4134 lb; drive goes through 5-speed ZF 5HP24 transmission / ZF 5HP24 Automatic transmission / automatic / 5-speed Mercedes-Benz 5G-Tronic transmission / Mercedes-Benz W5A580 automatic (supercharged models onl; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Jaguar Cars's own catalogue the Jaguar XJ (X308) sits alongside the Daimler Sovereign, the Jaguar 420 and Daimler Sovereign, the Jaguar Ascot, the Jaguar B99. The record names the Jaguar XJ (X300) as its predecessor and the Jaguar XJ (X350) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Geoff Lawson (1995). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Coventry, England.
For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 19 mpg combined, which works out near $4,200 a year in fuel at current prices.
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