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The cars : Jaguar Mk2 development history

Keith Adams — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:46:48 +0000

A new way forward THE compact Jaguar saloons of the 1950s and 1960s will forever be associated, in the minds of Britons of a certain age at least, with the late actor John Thaw. In the 1970s Britcop series The Sweeney, Thaw in the guise of Jack Regan, usually ended up chasing a dilapidated Jag [...]

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The cars : Jaguar S-type development history

Keith Adams — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:53:33 +0000

Bridging the gap AS IF the story of Jaguar’s compact saloons was not complicated enough already – what with the original Mk1 mutating into the Mk2 and then the 240/340 – they spawned two further offshoots, the similar looking S-type and the 420. Not to mention the Daimler variant of that model. Both the S-type [...]

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The cars : Jaguar 420 development history

Keith Adams — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:01:32 +0000

The final fling THE JAGUAR 420/Daimler Sovereign was the final variation of the original Utah project that evolved into the Mk1, Mk2 and S-type saloons. And if that story was not confusing enough the 420 had a similar moniker to the big 420G saloon, a revised MkX, which was announced at the same time. But [...]

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News : One-off Bertone Jaguar on offer

Keith Adams — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:05:05 +0000

Keith Adams One-off Jaguars that come up for sale tend to command spectacular prices when they come up for sale – but they can also prove to be rather controversial, given the beauty of the cars they’re based upon. This Bertone FT is a good case in point – it’s based on the S-type 3.8, [...]

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Blog : Jaguar S-type retrospective

Keith Adams — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:51:21 +0000

Dean Beedell (Originally written in 1999) On a miserable day in January I received a call that brightened my day. The phone call was from Bob Archard of the Jag Enthusiast’s club asking if my old S type would be able to attend a commercial launch of the new S-type saloon. Unipart wanted an original [...]

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