We take a look at the introduction of the XJ6, and chart its progress through the Series 2 and 3 revisions...
Jaguar's XJ6 ushered in a brave new world for Jaguar - and introduced the concept of platform sharing at the same time.
The development story
We take a look at the introduction of the XJ6, and chart its progress through the Series 2 and 3 revisions... |
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Project XJ4 styling prototypes
Perfecting this vitally important new car's styling wasn't the work of a moment... the convoluted development from E-type saloon to XJ is charted in pictures. |
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XJ6 Series 2 frontal alternatives
The stylists fiddled a fair bit with the XJ in order to make it comply with American bumper-height regulations... here are some of the alternatives that didn't make it. |
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Jaguar XJ21: The sports Jaguar that never was
| The Jaguar XJ21 looked like a promising little brother for the XJ-S. Sadly it wasn't to be... |
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Jaguar Kensington
| ItalDesign's XJ12-based concept could have modernised Jaguar 20 years sooner than the Ian Callum-styled XF and XJ did... |
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Jaguar XJ6: the eighth greatest BMC>Rover
| In 2004, austin-rover.co.uk polled its readers to decide what are the ten greatest cars to have been produced by BMC>Rover. The Jaguar XJ6/12 featured on that list... |
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The Jaguar-Avon estate
The Jaguar XJ6 was hardly an obvious choice for conversion into an esatate car, with the falling lines of its rear wings counting against the smooth integration of a boxy rear end. But by blending the Jaguar's cossetting interior with a truly commodious loadbay, Avon managed to find a viable market for the car. |
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