Tata Motors has insisted it has no intention of selling Jaguar Land Rover, despite a breakdown in talks with the government over taxpayer support. It said that it “categorically denies and dismisses any such intent” and added that the West Midlands-based carmaker “is and remains a key pillar of Tata Motors and the wider Tata…
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has begun developing new hydrogen fuel-cell technology for its flagship limousines and large SUVs. The special research project, working under the ‘Project Zeus’ banner, has been given a deadline to introduce its first fuel-cell powered vehicle in around 2025, reports Autocar. The first vehicle likely to receive the zero-emission tech rumoured to be…
The 2019/20 ABB FIA Formula E season six finale was to prove cruel for Panasonic Jaguar Racing and Mitch Evans. Starting round 11 in P23, due to the disadvantage of being in Qualifying Group 1, Mitch scythed through the field with a trademark drive and gained 12 places to finish P11 just outside of the…
The Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY series concluded today in Berlin with Simon Evans being crowned the season two champion. Team Asia New Zealand driver, Evans, kept a cool head to finish P2 ahead of his title rival Sérgio Jimenez who was leading the series until the last race. ZEG iCarros Jaguar Brazil driver Cacá Bueno won the final…
Jaguar Classic will create six matched pairs of E-types to celebrate the iconic sports car’s 60th anniversary in 2021: the E-type 60 Collection. Each pair of E-type 60 Edition cars pay tribute to two of the oldest and most famous Jaguar E-types of all: ‘9600 HP’ and ‘77 RW’, which played pivotal roles in the unveiling…
When we founded this magazine in November 1984 I thought it had a life of perhaps 20 editions before we started to run out of good features. Thankfully, I was very wrong. The one we are working on now is edition #204 and I am compiling what is one of the most significant and fascinating…
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 –…