The Jaguar Mark VIII is a 4-door sedan from Jaguar, built from 1956 to 1958, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: 3442 cc, 210 bhp.
The story
The Jaguar Mark VIII is a luxury four-door automobile introduced by the Jaguar company of Coventry at the 1956 London Motor Show. It succeeded the Jaguar Mark VII M, made from 1950 to 1956, and was replaced by the Mark IX in late 1958, made until 1961.
What is underneath
Power comes from 3442 cc, 210 bhp. It weighs 3752 lb. The wheelbase is 120 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Jaguar Mark VII M; its successor was the Jaguar Mark IX; assembly was at Coventry, England, United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Skyline, the Fiat 500, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Jaguar catalogue sit the F-Type and the Vanden Plas.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Jaguar Mark VIII has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.