I remember the launch of Jaguar’s second-generation ‘new’ XK very well. At the time I was working in the press and marketing team at General Motors, and the X150 stole many column inches from the Vauxhall/Opel Astra TwinTop that we were whipping the hanky off across the hall.
While GM’s bosses were seething at being comprehensively upstaged, I was intrigued by the sharply styled new Jaguar. A mini-Aston Martin with an edgy new styling approach, it
