Jaguar does not build many cars like the Jaguar Ascot: a 3-door hatchback, built from 1977 as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Its designer of record is Marcello Gandini at Bertone.
How it came about
The Jaguar Ascot is a concept car designed by Marcello Gandini and built by Italian firm Bertone for Jaguar. First presented in 1977, it is based on the Jaguar XJS. Visually, the Ascot closely resembles Bertone's Ferrari 308 GT Rainbow, presented a year earlier.
Under the skin
The record carries the shape — a 3-door hatchback. The engine, output and weight have not yet reached the open record, and MotorJury does not guess at them.
Family and rivals
On a showroom list of its day it stood against the BMW 7 Series, the Toyota Supra, the Mazda RX-7. Its Jaguar stablemates include the F-Type and the Vanden Plas.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Jaguar Ascot — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.