Jaguar Land Rover
Among the 10 Jaguar Land Rover entries in the MotorJury library, the Jaguar XJ series 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 1968. 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 series properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Hilux, the Peugeot Peugeot 504, the Range Rover Range Rover — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Jaguar XJ series reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.8 L Jaguar XK engine / XK I6 / 4.2 L Jaguar XK engine / XK I6 / 5.3 L Jaguar V12 engine / Jaguar V12 (from 1972); kerb weight is recorded at wheelbase = 108.75 in / LWB (sold from 1972): 112.75 in; drive goes through 3-speed Borg-Warner 35 transmission / Borg-Warner Model 8 automatic transmission / automatic (1968–1970) / 3-speed Borg-Warner Model 12 automatic (1970 onwards)Manual 4 speed +OD a; 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 Land Rover's own catalogue the Jaguar XJ series sits alongside the Jaguar C-X17 (2013), the Jaguar E-Pace, the Jaguar F-Pace, the Jaguar I-Pace. The record names the Jaguar Mark 2 / Jaguar 240, Jaguar 340 / Daimler 250 / Jaguar S-Type (1963) / Jaguar S-Type / Jaguar 420 and Daimler Sovereign (1966–69) / Jaguar 420 and Daimler Sovereign / Jaguar as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to William Heynes, William Lyons. 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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