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Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:24:52 +0000
Review: 2012 Jaguar XJL Portfolio

Location: John Dodge mansion, Detroit Editor’s note: The car pictured is not a long-wheelbase model, which is the only “Portfolio” model sold in the US. We are looking into the discrepancy. When Jaguar of North America informed me that I’d be getting a 2012 XJL Portfolio for review, my first reaction was to engage in [...]

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:22:45 +0000
2011 Jaguar XF Supercharged Review

The first issue that any reviewer must face is perspective. Whether it’s a $70,000 Jaguar or a $15,000 Chevy you have to maintain an appropriate perspective. You have to be fair to the product you’re reviewing while putting it into proper context for your readers. When Jaguar told me that a 2011 XF Supercharged was [...]

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:23:22 +0000
Review: 2011 Jaguar XJ Supersport

Americans are a funny bunch; our views of the larger world are crafted by our prejudices which then tend to be peddled back to us out of sheer convenience. For example, we tend to view British luxury as being some stuffy old stone mansion with dark wood panelling and and swirling cigar smoke, a perception [...]

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:01:33 +0000
Review: 2011 Jaguar XKR

In 2007 Jaguar started the most intensive make-over in the brand’s history with the redesigned XK. While the look was drop-dead gorgeous, the interior was more evolution than revolution when you consider the direction the XF and new XJ have taken. Now that the world has managed to catch its breath after the shock of [...]

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:13:16 +0000
Review: 2011 Jaguar XJ

Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi are all parts of huge organizations with vast resources. When developing a new flagship sedan, they can finesse every last detail. (Whether they actually do so is another matter.) Though previously owned by Ford and now owned by Indian conglomerate Tata, Jaguar has had to make do with so much less [...]

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:31:24 +0000
Capsule Review: Jaguar XJ-S V-12 “HE”

Why did we have an eleven-year-old, scratch-and-dent, no-maintenance-records, twelve-cylinder Jaguar on our lot? Blame our naive sales manager, who always paid top dollar for trades. In his haste to revolutionize the way people bought and sold luxury cars in Dublin, Ohio, “Steve” tended to ignore the established car-sales playbook. At the time, I thought he [...]

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:55:42 +0000
Review: 2010 Jaguar XFR

A wise old man once told me: “you can’t just own a Jaguar, you have to have a love affair with one.” The reasons for this were several, the sexy rooflines hampered head room and visibility, trunk space was non-existent, and then there are those reliability woes. Although my 2000 XJ8 has (no kidding) been [...]

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:07:10 +0000
Capsule Review: 1985 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas

I could bore you all with the long story of how I ended up in the check-cashing business — it involved an attack with a broomstick and a coffee mug — but instead we will simply join the action in medias res some time in 1996. I am standing on the used-car lot outside Welsh [...]

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:23:42 +0000
Import Sport Sedan Comparison: Third Place: Jaguar XF

If there’s a counterpoint in this test to the GS350′s robotic rationality, it’s the Jaguar XF. If the Lexus makes perfect sense to the kind of people who see car buying as an equation to be solved, the XFR is the only choice for right-brained aesthetes. It screams sex appeal like nothing has since Sofia [...]

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:01:13 +0000
Review: 1954 Jaguar XK120 Roadster

"I don't think this is what Sir William had in mind." The sleek and sensuous British Racing Green Jaguar XK 120 roared along the gravel road on the floor of a remote valley in the middle of Nevada. I doubt William Lyons could have imagined the scene fifty-some years before. The XK 120's speedometer needle waggled vaguely, yet constantly between 60 and 90 MPH---indicating that we had reached 'ludicrous speed" (given the conditions). A plume of dust streamed out behind the car, the parched solid matter equivalent-yet-antithesis of the liquid rooster-tail following a hydroplane. My co-driver laughed at either my comment or the sheer joy of the moment, it was impossible to tell.

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