Sir William Lyons' last effort in its most glorious form: a truly stunning XJ12-C 🥰
Sir William Lyons was a visionary and an independent thinker, so merging with the British Motor Company must have been a very hard decision. At the time it probably seemed like a pragmatic one, though. His son and heir, John, had been killed in a road accident in 1955 while en route to Le Mans. Then in 1965, Pressed Steel-Fischer, the company that supplied Jaguar’s bodies, had been bought by BMC.
The XJ stood for ‘eXperimental Jaguar’. It wasn’t replacing one model but several, eventually taking over from the ageing Mark II, S-Type, 420 and 420G. Lyons set high targets for his new car, as he always did, but his team of talent, which included Bob Knight, Wally Hassan and Bill Heynes, was more than capable of meeting them. Heynes’ idea for the XJ was to create a four-door sports car.
It was successful in so many more ways, though. Road tests of the XJ were glowing, and not only for refinement but for the way the car handled and performed. The thing that was upsetting buyers the most was not being able to get hold of one. Long waiting lists formed, which, in turn, created a buoyant black market. The XJ listed at around £2,000, yet people were paying £1,000 over the odds for what some were calling the best saloon car in the world.
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