Watch Mike Hawthorn, with a film camera strapped to the back of his D-Type Jaguar and a microphone fitted, commentate his way around the famous Le Mans circuit in 1956.
Read MoreHaving been in with a shout of scoring an unlikely victory using an almost bog standard XK120 at the 1950 Le Mans 24 Hours, Jaguar went all-in with a purpose built machine for 1951: the XKC (better…
Read MoreChassis 029 started life as a Pastel Green C-type dispatched to Jaguar’s West Coast distributor, Charles Hornburg in Los Angeles, on November 24th 1952. It was subsequently sold to Francisco…
Read MoreAfter seven years of unprecedented success with the XK120, C-type and D-type, in October 1956 Jaguar announced that it was to officially withdraw from all forms of motor racing. Having won the…
Read MoreWith nigh on 30 years having passed since Jaguar had decided to quit top flight Sports car racing, the British firm made a big splash with a high profile return mid-way through the 1985 season using…
Read MoreWhatever order you put them in, it is commonly regarded that the BMC Mini, Porsche 911, Volkswagen Beetle and Jaguar E-type were the most iconic automotive designs of the 20th…
Read MoreTowards the end of 1987, a small group of Jaguar engineers began work on a road-going successor to the C and D-types that had won the Le Mans 24 Hours five times between 1951 and…
Read MoreChassis 046 was one of two XJR-15 road cars supplied to the Brunei Royal Family. Total XJR-15 production was 53 units. The Sultan (Hassanal Bolkiah) and his brother Prince Jefri, who was…
Read MoreAlthough Germany was rightly regarded as the centre for super tuner activity from the 1970s through to the 1990s, a handful of British firms also created some epic machinery, one of which was Lister.
Read MoreWith a little over 12,000 units built, Jaguar’s XK120 was the most commercially successful top flight sports car of the late 1940s / early 1950s. Six years after the XK120 prototype had made its debut…
Read MoreAlthough Jaguar had supplied a handful of competition-prepared ‘ZP’ E-types to special customers for 1961, a more comprehensively uprated Lightweight version was developed for 1963…
Read MoreChassis 009 was one of two XJR-15s supplied to the Brunei Royal Family, both of which were completed in road as opposed to race specification. This first example was configured in the only…
Read MoreAlthough Jaguar had officially decided to withdraw from motor racing a few years prior, a batch of seven specially prepared E-types were prepared for competition use during the 1961 season…
Read MoreThe fire at Jaguar’s Browns Lane factory in Coventry on the evening of Tuesday 12th February 1957 affected around one quarter of the complex. Having started in the tyre store, it ripped through the…
Read MoreOn January 18th at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction in Florida, one of the most famous movie cars of the modern era will be going under the hammer: Austin Powers’ Jaguar E-type 4.2 OTS Roadster…
Read MoreOf the myriad machines that have claimed status of “Le Mans racing car for the road”, arguably none have come closer to fulfilling that mantra than Jaguar’s XK SS of 1957. When the XK SS was…
Read MoreWith the XK120 having rewritten the rulebook in terms of what could be expected from a vaguely affordable sports car, Jaguar understandably opted for evolution rather than revolution when it came…
Read MoreLaunched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1961, the Jaguar E-type redefined what could be expected from a car priced at such a lot less than an Aston Martin, Ferrari or Maserati. In addition…
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