‘it does feel strange pressing down a clutch pedal in an xj-s’

Jaguar Cars unveiled the E-Type in Geneva in 1961. It was an immediate success, and the factory had to work hard to keep up with the demand. Sales may have been excellent but, in the fast-moving autom

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Large, luxurious and fully loaded, the Jaguar XJ-S and Jensen Interceptor Series 3 defined the Seventies GT. Yet while one’s pure British muscle, the other, a Euro-American hybrid. We drive both to see which of these grandest of grand tourers wins out.

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

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Our inside man outlines the development of the XJ-S into the XJS