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Ollie Kew,
22 October 2012 12:00
You’ll find a plethora of new car verdicts tucked away in the reviews section of CAR’s website, but (unsurprisingly) very few appraisals of a car from the back seat only. After all, a car would have to be a more than moderately special machine to warrant a mention of the rear quarters lengthier than ‘the headroom is adequate.’ Such a ...
See the new June 2012 issue of CAR Magazine to read about Mark Walton’s drive of the Jaguar XJR-8/9 Group C Le Mans car. We celebrate 30 years since the introduction of Group C – one of the most popular and successful eras of sports car racing ever – with a drive in the epic Jaguar XJR-8, built by ...
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Ben Oliver,
21 June 2010 17:06
One of the real privileges of writing about cars for a living is getting to take important new models out onto the public road, often long before the first customer cars are delivered, and letting fellow car-nuts see them up close or on the move for the first time. I don’t know how many hours I’ve lost in service-station car ...
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Ben Barry,
04 June 2010 09:56
Elsewhere on this site you might spot me hooning about on Anglesey race circuit with Jaguar vehicle development boss Mike Cross and a pair of XFRs (click here to see that video). But while I was there I also got a steer in one of the final development XJs – a long-wheelbase, non-turbo V8. brightcove.createExperiences(); The XJ's intellectually oddball styling ...
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Stephen Bayley,
21 May 2010 12:00
XJ is ‘Experimental Jaguar’, a programme launched in 1964 which resulted in the 1968 car that was routinely described as the-most-beautiful-saloon-in-the-world. Indeed, it was so successful an experiment that the imaginations of those charged with designing its successor were hobbled: when the outgoing XJ was launched in Paris there were gasps from the crowd. And they were not gasps of ...
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Chris Chilton,
21 May 2010 12:00
Think Jags are all about glamour? If you’d asked me 15 years ago I’d have had a slightly different view. Before getting into the magazine business I spent a couple of years toiling away in a distinctly downmarket back street garage. It was just the two of us there: me, who’d dropped out of college to change subframes on Metros ...
3.5
Gavin Green,
21 May 2010 12:00
Tradition is a marvellous quality and any car company that enjoys it, should value it. What Kia would give for an E-type in its past! How Geely would love to have a P1800 in its hall of fame! (So Geely did the next best thing and bought Volvo, the company that made the P1800.) A rich heritage is one of ...
3.5
Ben Oliver,
12 May 2010 14:09
I’m sure I’m not the only car-geek who paid more attention to the cars than the politicians when watching the rolling news coverage of yesterday’s momentous handover of power. For most of the day, David Cameron was chased by the press in his much-criticised silver Lexus GS450h hybrid; the one that famously followed him from home to the House of ...
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Tim Pollard,
29 April 2010 13:43
Drove the new Jaguar XJ for the first time the other day: a 3.0-litre diesel long-wheelbase model that struck a chord with me for two reasons. One, I'd written the preview piece for CAR Magazine and had followed its genesis all the way from early scoops to motor show debut. And two, it delivered everything I'd expected after reading reviews ...
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Andrew Franklin,
13 July 2009 10:15
I always follow the rule that you should never make a call on a new car’s looks, style and proportions until you’ve actually walked around it and seen it on the move. It’s said the camera never lies but, as a designer, I know that it’s pretty effective at camouflaging the truth. I say this having just returned from the ...
