In the mid 1990s, before Jaguar went fully corporate and softened its edges, the XJR was its answer to the German super sedans. The X300 generation XJR took the XJ platform and added an Eaton supercharger to the 4.0 liter AJ16 inline six, producing 322 horsepower and serious midrange torque, all sent through a reinforced […]
I think it was in the second season of the Grand Tour in Episode 6 (Jaaaaaaaags) when Jeremy Clarkson drives a Jaguar XJR and calls it “cool without being cool Britannia, it’s caddish without being laddish, it’s violent without being vicious, and it is just the last word in sophistication. Hannibal Lector had one, and […]
With the 1994 release of the Jaguar XJR (X306) performance sedan, the world was introduced to a supercharged AJ6 version of Jaguar’s bread and butter luxury sedan. It was fast, it was luxurious, it was a Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag. The automotive press (particularly those in the UK) rejoiced…mostly because press folks drive new cars from corporate fleets […]
This next car comes from tipper Art C who artfully sums it up when he writes: Wow. Too cheap to be true? Or just cheap enough to take a flyer on it?? Oil around breather is worrisome, but other than that? Wow. Thats a lotta beef for $1500 realistically. Yeah, that is lot of supercharged big […]
DT readers who live in parts of the country that do not use road salt in the winter will breathe a sigh of relief after reading this piece. Parts cars are a great resource for keeping other cars on the road if you actually get around to using them that way. Today’s pair of Jags […]
Sorry Matt LeBlanc, but the current BBC Top Gear show is just unwatchable and the Grand Tour (starring those three nincompoops from the old Top Gear) is seriously good telly. For this week’s Mid Week Match-Up, I’d like to challenge our readers to find a car for Jeremy Clarkson, James May, or Richard Hammond. My […]
When I saw this next car described as a Jaguar XJR SVO, I was certain that I’d found the holy grail of hillbilly engineering — where the timeless style of a Shhhag-u-are meets the performance potential of a boosted 8-valve Pinto engine…but instead all I found was some Jag that was custom ordered with goatskin […]
Before Jaguar sold out and went mainstream, they offered a surprising amount of cool stuff for car that was sold new to a bunch of stuffy rich folks. Available power in the X300 generation (1994-1997) was either a big revv-happy inline-6, or a thundering V12 — and if you wanted the car to handle better […]
The last time we featured an XJR (a 1995 5-spd swapped example), I goofed and implied the car came with the supercharged V8 instead of the inline-6 of the earlier cars. This next feature is a V8 XJR and it might not have a 5-speed swap, but it is offered for pennies on the original […]
With the 1994 release of the Jaguar XJR (X306) performance sedan, the world was introduced to a supercharged V8 version of Jaguar’s bread and butter luxury sedan. The only problem with the XJR since its introduction has been the lack of manual transmission option, a problem that was solved in this next feature. Find this […]