Jaguar does not build many cars like the Jaguar Mark 1: a 4-door saloon with 2,483 , built from 1955 to 1959 at the height of the post-war boom. Its designer of record is William Lyons.
How it came about
The Jaguar Mark 1 is a British luxury saloon car produced by Jaguar between 1955 and 1959. It was referred to in contemporary company documentation as the Jaguar 2.4 Litre and Jaguar 3.4 Litre. Its designation as Mark 1 was retroactive, following its October 1959 replacement by Jaguar's 2.4-litre Mark 2.
The 2.4 Litre was the company's first small saloon since the end of its 1½ and 2½ Litre cars in 1949, and was an immediate success, easily outselling the larger, much more expensive Jaguar saloons. The 2.4 Litre saloon was announced on 28 September 1955. The 3.4 Litre saloon announced 17 months later in the U.S. on 26 February 1957 was designed for the American market and was not at first freely available on the domestic market.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 2,483 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 4-speed manual / 4-speed manual + overdrive / 3-speed automatic. The wheelbase is 107.5 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Jaguar's history is not in doubt: the Jaguar 2½ Litre saloon came before it; the Jaguar Mark 2 followed it; it was built at Coventry, England. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, the Nissan Skyline. Its Jaguar stablemates include the F-Type and the Vanden Plas.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Jaguar Mark 1 — 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.