Jaguar XK

Among the 58 Jaguar Cars entries in the MotorJury library, the Jaguar XK holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2005. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Jaguar XK properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. 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 Audi AG Audi Q7, the Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage, the Bugatti Bugatti Veyron — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Jaguar XK reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.5 L Jaguar AJ-V8 3.5 L engine / AJ V8 (German, Italian, Dutch, and Belgian markets only.) / 4.2 L Jaguar AJ-V8 engine#AJ34 / AJ34 V8 / 4.2 L Jaguar AJ-V8 engine#AJ; kerb weight is recorded at Coupé: 1595 kg / Convertible: 1675 kg; drive goes through 6-speed ZF 6HP26 automatic; the layout is Front-mid-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.

Its place in the Jaguar Cars story

Within Jaguar Cars's own catalogue the Jaguar XK sits alongside the Daimler Sovereign, the Jaguar 420 and Daimler Sovereign, the Jaguar Ascot, the Jaguar B99. The record names the Jaguar XK (X100) as its predecessor and the Jaguar F-Type as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Ian Callum (2002). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Castle Bromwich, Birmingham (Castle Bromwich Assembly).

On the record

For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 19 mpg combined, which works out near $4,000 a year in fuel at current prices.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Jaguar XK was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.