JAGUAR XJ8
Aug 18, 2021
4 minutes
The 1990s brought hope that a long and tortuous time for Jaguar was over. The Leyland era was long gone and in place of the divisive XJ40 was an X300 range that mirrored the excellence of the original XJ6.
No longer was there a Sir William Lyons to inspire his in-house stylists, so Jaguar’s design team, led by the late Geoff Lawson, looked to the era of Lyons when styling the X300 and later X308.
Where the XJ40 was angular and unfriendly, Lawson’s team applied elements of Series 1 XJ6 shapeliness and created a car that still
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