Jaguar XJS

Well, it's my 50th post today and I'll be talking about my favourite make of all time, Jaguar. Jaguar always came out with great coupes right from the XK120s, the E-type, the XJS and up to the latest XKs. Today we will concentrate on the Jaguar XJS. The Jaguar XJS was a two-door car that Jaguar came up with in the 70s. It was to be what they call a luxury grand tourer and production ran for more than 20 years from 1975-1996 which is unusually long. During the production period more than 100,000 units were built which consisted of various body designs such as coupes, convertibles (above) and the rare targa-top. It was to be the successor to the ever-famous Jaguar E-type or known as XKE in the US.

The targa-top model

The coupe

The earlier XJS models had two engine variants which were the 3.6 litre inline 6 and the 5.3 litre V12. The 3.6 litre engines in these models were the AJ6 design and not the older XK design. The AJ6 was also later to be the heart of the Jaguar XJ40 models which I previously had a write-up on.

The XJS had appeared in the television series ‘Return of the Saint’ which was the sequel of ‘The Saint’ which featured the Volvo P1800. Finding an XJS in Malaysia is quite rare as too all other classic Jaguar models and prices are not too high as well. A good well kept one would cost at least RM70,000 – RM80,000. I too have one for sale. Go check out my ‘Cars for sale’ page, this is a V12 convertible. That’s all from me for today, I leave you with a video below of a rare Jaguar XJS 3.6 manual.