It's the 68th of January, so it feels like a cheap, beige Jaguar kind of day.
So 136,000 miles might not seem much of a qualification to be drafted into the exclusivity of the HMC. I mean, we've featured plenty of cars - Land Cruisers, S-Classes and the like - that would've cracked off that sort of distance within moments of passing out from their PDI parade. But when it comes to Jaguars, and coupe ones especially, high mileages aren't, perhaps, quite so commonplace. That's whytakes the honours today.
There were elements of the XJ-S in the XK8's floor pan, but this was a heavily upgraded design. The rear subframe was from the X300, but up front there was an all-new, lightweight and much stiffer aluminium subframe. Not only that, it had a brand-new, all-alloy 4.0-litre AJ-V8 engine sitting on top of it. This had 32 valves and variable cam phasing. It had attention to detail, too.
The XK8 was also the first Jaguar to use CAN bus serial networking. This was flippin' high-tech stuff at the time. Analogue was for luddites, and we were heading towards the year 2000, the digital age, and Jaguar wasn't going to shy away from it for fear of catching a millennium bug. The XK8's many modules could all chat to each other in a series of zeros and ones. It could do this far quicker than any analogue system could operate and through far fewer wires.
Everyone made a fuss about Ian Callum's DB7 at around the time the XK8 was launched. That's because it was low and sleek and totally in proportion. Lawson had more constraints put upon him than Callum, though. The XK8 had to be bigger inside to fit the round, burger-bloated Americans that Ford hoped would buy it in huge numbers. And they played a lot of golf, which meant it needed enough boot space to fit two bags of golfing batons.
The XK8 wasn't just a bit more advanced by comparison. It was a Seiko quartz wristwatch while the DB7 was a sundial. And when the XKR version arrived, it obliterated the DB7 on pace as well. By sticking a supercharger between the vee of the AJ-V8, Jaguar ratcheted it up to 370hp and 387 lb ft of grunt. That gave it a hell of a kick and meant it could hit 0-62mph in 5.4 seconds. An automatic DB7 took a glacial 6.9 seconds.
Deutschland Neuesten Nachrichten, Deutschland Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
Mercedes-Benz 280 SL Pagoda | SpottedFor sale: More expensive than a Jaguar E-Type - and probably cooler too
Weiterlesen »
North Korea's military launches longest-range missile since 2017The Japanese and South Korean militaries estimate it reached heights of roughly 1,200 miles and traveled nearly 500 miles before landing in the sea.
Weiterlesen »
Map: San Diego County’s biggest earthquake since 2012The quake, at 9:46 a.m., was centered near the Palomar Observatory, 18 miles northeast of Escondido.
Weiterlesen »
Cuban children with disabilities pet jaguars and snakes for therapyBaby jaguars and an intricately colored endemic boa known as the 'maja' are among the exotic animals at Cuba's national zoo that parents and teachers say provide unusually effective therapy to children with special needs.
Weiterlesen »
Sawyer's career-high 34 lift No. 1 Stevenson past KenwoodStevenson's Simone Sawyer scored a career-high 34 points in a 65-51 win over Kenwood at the Midwest Hoops Spotlight Invitational at Trinity High School Saturday.
Weiterlesen »