Jaguar has issued a recall for 18,000 X-Type Diesel-engined cars made between 2006 and 2009 over cruise control problems. The Jaguar X-Type, ‘Ford’ Jaguar’s stab at mopping up sales from BMW’s 3 Series and Mercedes’ C Class, is back in the headlines, with Jaguar issuing a recall for 18,000 X-Types in the UK – around 5 per […]
New Small Jaguar – Not before 2016
Jaguar are delaying plans to replace the X-Type with a new small Jaguar until after a bigger and more refined Jaguar XF launches in 2015 We’ve discussed the replacement for the Jaguar X-Type – dubbed the New Small Jaguar – almost endlessly over the last year or two. Which with both the Jaguar XF and the Jaguar XJ replacing cars that were good […]
Jaguar XS: The New Small Jaguar? Not very likely
The Dutch motoring press are reporting the new small Jaguar will be the Jaguar XS, with details at a Dutch Motor Show in April. Seems highly unlikely. We have to confess that this is the first time we’ve heard that the New Small Jaguar is to be called the Jaguar XS. And we’re not really […]
Bertone B99 Jaguar NOT for Jaguar. Perhaps Lamborghini will be interested?
Jaguar has proclaimed the Bertone B99 – Bertone’s take on a new small Jaguar – as ‘Not for them’. Perhaps it could become a Lamborghini? We thought we were in a minority of one when we proclaimed the Bertone B99 – Bertone’s take on a new Small Jaguar – to be the wrong direction for Jaguar. We […]
Jaguar B99 by Bertone: Still looks like Jaguar past to us
Bertone has revealed the B99 Concept at Geneva, their take on a future New Small Jaguar to take on the BMW 3 Series. With Jaguar looking more than seriously at a New Small Jaguar to take the BMW 3 Series on at its own game, it seems almost certain Jaguar’s had a part to play […]
New Baby Jaguar Revealed – Bertone B99 Concept
Bertone has created a concept of a new Baby Jaguar which will appear at the Geneva Motor Show – the Bertone B99. Earlier today there were teasers of a new Baby Jag designed and built by Bertone. But it was one of those daft ‘It’s all dark but it’s all there’ images. We did think […]
New Small Jaguar: Adrian Hallmark pontificates
Jaguar’s Global Brand Director – Adrian Hallmark – has been pontificating on a new Small Jaguar – a replacement for the Jaguar X-Type I know. You’ve read headlines here before about a New Small Jaguar. A successor to the rather ill-fated Jaguar X-Type. Which we all know is something Tata will have to address at some […]
Jaguar X-Type axed early
It should have been a runaway success. And it did sell 350,000+ in it’s life. But it never worked as well as Jaguar would like and, with the emphasis on the new Jaguar XJ, the very successful Jaguar XF and the Jaguar XK, Jaguar has taken the decision to end production of the X-Type at […]