Accelerating the brand

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

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

The life and restoration of one of the very earliest right hand drive E-types

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

The 1920s were not easy years in Germany. World War One had left the country impoverished and economic inflation was rife. It was a time of consolidation, as the nation’s industrialists analysed the s