More years than I care to remember writing about classic cars have taught me one thing above all others: some of the best products from the British motor industry have come from the most unlikely places, usually a development team heavily stifled by resources. Examples include the original Range Rover, the collection of Metro bits which made up the MGF and the supposedly stop-gap facelift which gave the XJS a second wind.
Even by those standards though, the Jaguar AJ-126 engine is something of a curiosity: is it genius of
