This is what Jaguar Land Rover’s new design and engineering centre in Warwickshire will look like. Work has now begun on the £200m project in Gaydon and the Coventry car maker has revealed the first images of just what the state-of-the-art facility will look like when complete. The ambitious scheme, which involves the wholescale redevelopment…
Burlen Ltd, the world’s only manufacturer of genuine SU (Skinners Union), AMAL and Zenith carburettors, is gearing up for a show-stopping return to the Goodwood Members’ Meeting this month. From 18-19 March 2017, the Salisbury-based company will be showcasing its latest products and services at the famous Motor Circuit, including one incredibly exciting addition for…
In recent weeks Jaguar Magazine has made a major breakthrough in getting our hardcopy publication to readers around the world. We though are now distributed international by the world’s biggest magazine on-line outlet – https://www.magazine.co.uk You will also get it at a discounted price and delivered to your door. Our Facebook,…
Jaguar has unleashed its first electric vehicle – the Jaguar I-PACE – onto the streets for the first time. Driving on the streets of London’s famous Olympic Park, the electric performance SUV concept previews Jaguar’s first electric vehicle, the Jaguar I-PACE, which will be revealed in late 2017 and will be on the road in…
Thanks to our good friend Michael Crawley who was at Southport on the Gold Coast for the occasion, I was reminded that 63 years ago today Lex Davison won the first of his four Australian Grand Prix. He was driving his own HWM which he had purchased from friend Tony Gaze who drove…
It makes 550 horsepower and pumps 9 gallons every second. Who wouldn’t want a supercharged Jaguar V8 under the hood, sending 550 horsepower to the wheels? That would be the person who needs such power just to make his freaking fuel pump work. Friends, if ever there was a statement to encapsulate just how awesome it is right…
There has been a lot of interest in the original XJ-S of late, and through John Bleasdale’s XJ-SC Facebook page, also the delectable Cabriolet. We have discussed the earliest XJ-Ss, the first two RHD examples surviving in Australia – one original and two being turned into a very famous and significant GT racer. Well the…
You may not recognise it or the people with it, but this is RHD XJ-S chassis #2 which was brought to Australia by the late Bob How in the latter half of the 1970s along with chassis #1. It was built into a GT racer by John McCormack, then sold to Mark Trenoweth in Brisbane…
Those of you who are regulars to Jaguar Magazine may well be familiar with John Bleasdale in England. He is dedicated to Jaguar’s Supercar models and the XJ-SC – or Cabriolet. If you are interested in those models and don’t know John, you will find him on Facebook and other social media platforms. So for…
Yes, out next edition is getting closer – and includes a buyers guide to the X-Type, and a major six page feature on the original 1975 XJ-S. I believe these are right on the verge of being the best investment model – if you can find an untampered with early example. Surprisingly, many of the development cars survive…
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