Jaguar Land Rover named former Renault SA head Thierry Bollore its next chief executive officer to help steer the U.K. carmaker out of a prolonged sales slump that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Bollore, 57, will take charge of the manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs when Ralf Speth steps down as CEO in September,…
Like most of us, we hate COVID-19 which has delayed us on this edition too – but it is complete now. We have uploaded it to Magzter for digital publishing, and it is at our printer now too. We are happy with it. Highlights include revealing the true fate of XK120 #1 for the first…
We enlisted the sage advice of friend Richard Hassan for the next edition of Jaguar Magazine. Richard’s father Walter was the main engineer in the creation and development of the XK Jaguar engine, and Richard did many things with his father as a child. As a result of our time working with Richard he told…
One way or another we are all feeling the pinch of Covid-19, and in our case it has been delays with advertising particularly which has slowed us. However, we also have some totally unique and very historical stories in this one involving the stillborn four cylinder XK Jaguar engine – and XK120 number one –…
IT’S OUR NEW EDITION #203 … Covid is still giving us problems still because we have had to find a new printer outside of Victoria which is in lockdown again. However, we are up and away now. Highlights of the next edition are many and very significant. THE GENUINE HODGSON RACING MK2 IS BACK AFTER…
The internet is so good, but it can be a problem too! Since we changed providers some time ago we have had a number of subscribers telling us they have had problems getting though to us with renewals or new subscription orders. If you are one of those can you please tell me here or…
This historic scene was found in our image archive and shows the first Australian Touring Car Championship being contested in 1960 at the Gnoo Blas road track in Orange, west of Sydney. It is no ordinary ‘Mk1’ either. It’s the second such Jaguar raced by David McKay who started the dominance of Touring cars in…
It is a car which has defied all the odds to survive almost totally original, yet it has never been fully understood and linked to images from all stages of its career. This amazing and unique 1955 colour image of the car being towed to Bathurst by its owner hints at much more. It is…
Clive Beecham owns and is devoted to his original four times consecutive Le Mans starting D-Type XKD603. His car was second there in 1957, and recently Clive found and met the Ecurie Ecosse time keeper and good friend of Ron Flockhart, 96 year old Hugh Langrishe. Now Clive introduces us to Hugh in the period,…
As keen devotees of the intriguing and beautiful two door XJ-C it is great news that another of the very few pre-production prototypes built in 1973, two years before general sale, has been found in England. The number of the car and its identity will have to remain a secret for the time being, but…