After five months – and a great deal of driving pleasure – our long-term Jaguar XJ goes back to Jaguar having not missed a beat. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? It seems only five minutes since we wrote that our long-term Jaguar XJ would be here until ‘… the leaves are coming back […]
Jaguar XJ Coupe: Adrian’s Back
Jaguar’s Adrian Hallmark has revealed that Jaguar are planning a pillarless coupe version of the XJ after all – The Jaguar XJ Coupe. For many of you – especially as it’s been heavily read today – our report this morning on the New Small Jaguar may be the first time you’ve come across Adrian Hallmark. […]
Jaguar XJ 3.0 TDV6 Long Term Test (2010): December update & 2011 Software review
Our long term Jaguar XJ has now been with us more than a month, so time to see how it’s fared and have a look at the latest software added to the XJ for 2011. It’s hard to believe it, but our long-term Jaguar XJ has been with us more than a month. And in […]
Jaguar XJ 3.0 TDV6 Long Term Test (2010): The Intro
Jaguar send us a Jaguar XJ 3.0 TDV6 SWB Portfolio to play with for a month or four. What’s the new big Jag going to be like as an everyday car? We moaned about the tease that was the introduction to the new Jaguar XJ, but we dutifully went off to the press launch at the Saatchi […]
Jaguar XJ 3.0 Litre Diesel SWB Portfolio Photo Gallery (2010)
Gallery of Photos of the new Jaguar XJ 3.0 Litre Diesel SWB Portfolio (2010). We recently enjoyed a week with the new Jaguar XJ, in this case a beautiful 3.0 litre diesel Portfolio )top of the model tree) finished in black with great tan leather, or to put it in Jaguar-Speak, Ultimate Black with London […]
Jaguar XJ 3.0 Litre Diesel Review & Road Test Part 4
I have to confess we had a couple of glitches with our XJ. We pushed Jaguar in to giving us an XJ for a week as soon as they could. So we ended up with a very early car which had been run around by more hacks and celebs than you can shake a stick […]
Jaguar XJ 3.0 Litre Diesel Review & Road Test Part 3
The Jaguar XJ was a very good car under the skin long before it became the new XJ. And thanks to that advanced aluminium construction the new XJ feels like a mid-sized sports saloon to drive, not a bloated, oversized executive barge with pretensions of offering ‘The Drive’. It’s the real thing. Jaguar has decided […]
Jaguar XJ 3.0 Litre Diesel Review & Road Test Part 2
Jaguar’s move in to the 21st century – certainly in design terms – started two years ago with the XF. Out went the pastiche of the past that was the S Type and in came the modern cool of the XF, with its very contemporary take on Jaguar’s style. But the XJ; that’s a very […]
Jaguar XJ – The Chauffeur’s Choice
Jaguar are making sure the lucrative chauffeur market takes to the new Jaguar XJ with the Jaguar Chauffeur Programme. It’s a big market for high end cars. The Chauffeur market, that is. And in the new XJ Jaguar has built a car that’s pitched perfectly at that lucrative market, especially with the LWB 3.0 litre […]
New Jaguar XJ: The Paris video
Jaguar have produced a new promo video for the new XJ, moodily shot in wet weather in Paris. A solace or an irritation for customers waiting to take delivery? Lucy Jordan lamented that she’d ‘Never ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair’. But if she ever had (apart […]