WORK ON car magazines for long enough and it’s inevitable that you will have some weeks where the variety of machinery you find yourself in is somewhat varied to say the least. And so it was while putting this issue of JW together where in the course of a single week I found myself piloting everything from a century-old Austin 7 to an electric car from an as-yet unknown maker which is so new it has yet to appear on sale, while somewhere between these two landmarks sat a hybrid Toyota company car, Honda S2000 and the Jaguar XFR-S you see here.
It wasn’t until afterwards that I realised that this oddball selection of cars neatly encapsulated a century of progress in the automotive world, from straight petrol to the hybrid half-way house and the allelectric future. Naturally for any readers – and anyone with even the slightest petrolhead leanings – it’s the Jaguar which stands out as the highlight, its 273bhp per tonne eclipsing
