RICHARD BREMNER
The XJ40 launch
THE SOLE remaining XJ40 from the car’s 1986 press drive on page 66 reminds me of the event, which I was lucky enough to attend. By the mid Eighties, launches of all-new Jaguars occurred with the frequency of zoobound giant pandas birthing cubs. The much-admired, Pininfarina-massaged Series 3 had arrived in 1979, but it was just that – a workover to create a third version of a car already
