Jaguar is an exemplary British luxury car manufacturing company that was founded by Sir William Lyons in 1922. Jaguar was originally a builder of motorcycle side cars, but switched to the assembly of automobiles with the production of the Mark IV sedan and coupes in 1935.
Jaguar has undergone a few ownership changes since the 1960s, with its most recent possession buyout coming in 2008 when the Ford Motor Company sold the car manufacturer to Tata Motors of India. Jaguar was sold jointly with Land Rover to Tata, and collectively they shape the Jaguar Land Rover division of Tata.
At the present time, Jaguar manufactures three different vehicles on the world market. The Jaguar XF, which was first presented in 2008, is its newest model. The XF is a mid-sized sedan that features a gasoline or a 3.0-liter V6 diesel engine. Jaguar’s XF is also offered in a higher performance model – the XFR – that comes with a supercharged, 5.0-liter V8 engine.
Jaguar’s most highly decorated automobile is the XJ. The XJ is a four-door, full-size sedan that is powered by a variety of V8 gasoline engines. The base power plant is the 5.0-liter V8 engine that generates 385 horsepower. There are a couple of optional engines that are both supercharged 5.0-liter V8s, one of which creates 470 horsepower while the other produces 510 horsepower.
The XK is a luxury car that is offered as either a two-door coupe or a two-door convertible. Jaguar’s international sales were just barely disturbed by the worldwide recession in 2009, due mainly to the launching of the respected XF model the year before. The XF supplanted the departing S type, and recorded a considerable sales expansion over the S. Jaguar sales dropped by just four percent in 2009 from the previous year, a significantly healthier achievement than many other luxury carmakers.
The marriage of Jaguar and Ford Motor Companies had many industry observers wondering what effects of that union would be apparent in the vehicles produced. Would standard Ford thinking affect the classic Jaguar, or would the opposite be true? Or more likely would more subtle differences take place, hardly noticeable to the general public? In…
In with the old and out with the new. Or is that the other way around? That little quandary perfectly summarizes the Jaguar S-Type from its debut in 2000 to its demise in 2008. Heavily leaning on tradition yet eager to make a distinguishing mark on modern times, this was a model of midsize luxury…
Once or twice in a generation does a car come along, so revolutionary in appearance and performance, that it instantly becomes a classic. Such a car appeared on the automotive scene in 1961 with the introduction of the Jaguar E-Type, and the general public’s image of what a sports car should look like changed forever.…
Leave it to the British. They have this “refined” thing going on and they really hate to mess with it. Any major change is almost like spitting on The Queen herself and that just isn’t done. So when the engineers and decision-makers at Jaguar headquarters decided in the mid-Seventies to develop an all-new model to…
The classic concept of a Jaguar owner being refined and stodgy was turned on its ear in 1996 when Jaguar introduced the XK8 in coupe and convertible models. Suddenly refined and stodgy became jet set and fast paced with this smooth, powerful new member of the Jag family. If you look up a description of…