Four men have been arrested as detectives investigate a heist of ‘£3 million worth of engines’ from Jaguar Land Rover. JLR was working with West Midlands Police to investigate the theft at its 300-acre plant in Solihull. It is not clear if the engines were ones made at the i54 plant near…
With the winter break at an end, Panasonic Jaguar Racing is off to sunnier climes, travelling to Argentina for the third round of the FIA Formula E Championship in Buenos Aires on 18 February. The 12-turn, 2.5km Puerto Madero circuit is the only track on the Formula E calendar to have featured in all…
Jaguar’s genius designer Malcolm Sayer was an aerodynamicist who was responsible for creating the awesome C-Type, D-Type, E-Type, XJ13 and XJ-S. His works are amongst some of the greatest automotive designs of all time, and I truly look at the original and unique XJ13 more as a sculpture than a racing sports car.…
A Coventry firm which supplies machinery to manufacturers, including in the car industry, wants to build a new factory at the former Jaguar site at Browns Lane . The application by Expert Tooling and Automation is for a factory, offices, a service yard suitable for heavy goods vehicles and car park. The…
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The 2017 Jaguar F-PACE has been named Best Luxury Utility vehicle by the nationally broadcast television series MotorWeek as part of its annual Drivers’ Choice Awards. Presented during the 2017 Chicago Auto Show, these awards recognize the best new cars and trucks throughout the industry. Designed and engineered to offer the agility, responsiveness…
Why has the ‘Mk1’, MkVII, MkX, S-Type and 420 etc gone unloved and mostly unnoticed when it comes to collectable Jaguars? Well, the truth is that mostly it is because they were superseded by even more spectacular models. Jaguar fans turned away to swoon over the Mk2 and others. My first Jaguar…
January was yet another excellent month in the UK for Jaguar, its sales rise of 20 per cent outpacing the market’s 11 per per cent gain. Much of the additional volume is coming from the F-PACE, yet the brand’s two youngest saloons are also doing well. The larger of those, the XF, has had…
What’s smaller than F? Why, E, of course! Jaguar already told us that much when it rolled out the XE to slot in below the XF sedan. And now it’s about to do it again with the crossover you see here, however disguised though it may still be. Spotted out in the wild…
If you ever wanted to see the obvious difference between the way Group 44 and TWR built their Group C and IMSA V12 Jaguar race cars – this is a good way to do that. Bob Tullius ran at Le Mans in 1984 and 85 for Jaguar and was hoping Jaguar would buy…