September 2020

Jaguar World

The world's best selling independent Jaguar magazine.

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Jaguar World Magazine
www.jaguar-world.com Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL Editor: Paul Walton jwm.ed@kelsey.co.uk Sub Editor: Laura Jones Executive Editor: Jim Patten jaguar.jim@btinternet.com Technical Consultant: R
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Keeping Them In The Family
The Next Month page in the August Jaguar World (p96) showed this issue running a post-lockdown story with my XK8. Well, although I started the journey I got exactly 30 miles from home before an engine warning light appeared on the dash. I’m still wai
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Contributors
The former Jaguar designer delves into the secrets of diecast models (p19) Jim gets to drive Woodham Mortimer’s monstrous, new 4.7-litre E-type (p32) Our technical editor explains what to look for when buying an XJ40 (p60) ■
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Jlr Appoints Bolloré CEO
IF YOUHAVE A JAGUAR-RELATED NEWS STORY, SEND IT TO JWM.ED@KELSEY.CO.UK FORMER RENAULT boss, Thierry Bolloré, has been appointed to the role of chief executive officer of Jaguar Land Rover. Mr Bolloré has extensive expertise in the automotive business
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Breakfast Meetings Return To Gaydon
Following the relaxation in regulations to allow Covid-19 secure venues to recommence large gatherings, on 12 July the Jaguar Breakfast Club, in conjunction with the British Motor Museum, held the first major Jaguar meet in the UK since lockdown. Des
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JLR’s Bumpy Corona Ride
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Jaguar Land Rover’s retail sales fell by more than 40 percent during the first quarter of its financial year, despite the slight increase recently. With lockdowns around the world, shutting retailers, and a fall
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Contactless Touchscreen
Jaguar Land Rover and the University of Cambridge have developed new contactless touchscreen technology to help keep drivers’ eyes on the road and reduce the spread of bacteria and viruses in a post-Covid-19 world. The technology uses artificial inte
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Bird Joins Jaguar Racing
The British driver Sam Bird will join Mitch Evans at Jaguar Racing for season seven of the FIA Formula E World Championship. Says the 33-year-old, who has competed in every Formula E race since the series started in 2014, securing nine wins to date,
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Toyo Tires/Watchdogapp.com Jaguar Saloon&GT Championship Rounds 1 and 2
A new experience for 2020 saw the Jaguar drivers sharing a grid with the CSCC Open Series, so finding space for a flying lap was more of a challenge. However, cream rises to the top and the front three had a familiar look to it: Colin Philpott (Class
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Mailbox
After reading about Jaguar’s innovative cars in the August issue (p20), I have a few points to add that may be of interest. I worked with Jack Emerson in the engine development at Jaguar’s Foleshill factory for about a year fromAugust 1951, developin
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Richard Bremner
A FEW months ago, the Jaguar I-PACE was the second best-selling car in Britain. It’s highly likely that no Jaguar has ever placed so high in this country’s sales charts. Not only that, but Jaguar itself was the second best-selling marque with almost
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Keith Heleft
MY TIME at Jaguar as a designer featured all the usual, predictable parts of the job, but there were also a few I had not anticipated. One of those was to supervise the building of diecast models, based on the real cars I had designed. Scale models r
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Revision Guide
IN 2011, the South African entrepreneur Elon Musk said, "Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster." And disaster is exactly what Jaguar was facing in the mid-2000s due to the XJ's lack of design pro
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Wide Boy
WE’RE STILL under lockdown, but life must go on – especially as I have been offered the opportunity to sample the new Woodham Mortimer Sport E-type GT. A plan must be hatched. I know of a former WW2 airstrip at Bradwell-on-Sea, where the decommission
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Fit For A KING
IN THE April 2017 issue, when I said of a 14,000-mile XK8, “If you own an example that’s covered fewer miles, we’d love to know,” I never thought there would be one. But I was wrong. Not only has Paul Valentine’s 1997 convertible covered a mere 10k m
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American Beauty
ACCORDING TO a report by the RAC Foundation, most drivers keep their cars for an average of four years. Obviously, nobody told Cecil Howard from St. Louis, USA, because he owned his XJ-S for more than 40 years, ten times that average. The result of t
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Seven Heaven
I ONCE ATTENDED a party where a grandmother in the corner was quietly talking about her grandchildren and how clever they were. My friend, Paul, suggested that I whisper into her ear and mention Riley. It was like a magical switch. All thoughts of th
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Xj40 Buying Guide
PRODUCED BETWEEN 1986 and 1994, the steel-bodied XJ40 was the long-awaited replacement in the XJ’s evolution. Development started in 1972, although the final shape wasn’t signed off for production until 1980, which itself didn’t begin until 1986 when
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Owner’s Opinion
I have owned my XJ40 since September 2016 and, to date, have covered 12,000 miles in it with virtually no issues. It’s serviced every year regardless of mileage. A side from servicing, the only things I've had to address have been suspension componen
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Should You Buy One?
North Wales Jag Centre’s Matt Norbury says, “The drive is as smooth as you could ask for, as good as any Rolls-Royce in its day, comfy, it has a silent cabin, is easy to drive and you could travel to the South of France and feel like you’ve had a laz
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Useful Contacts
Cod more Hill Garage Stane Street Pulborough West Sussex RH20 1BQ Tel: 01798 874477 Web: www.arunltd.com Totnes Road Paignton Devon TQ4 7PT Tel: 01803 520026 Web: www.beechdowngarage.co.uk Unit 1&2 Independent Business Park Mill Road Stokenchurch Hig
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2003 X-TYPE 2.5 Sport
WHAT DID you miss most during the Covid-19 lockdown? Meeting friends? Seeing family? Doing something cultural, such as visiting a museum or historic gardens? I’d like to say yes to all the above, but what I missed the most was chips. Not any chips –
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2003 XJ8 4.2 Sport
IN THE May/June 2020 issue of JW (p70), I’d collected the long-term XJ8 4.2 and visited three bodyshops to discuss resprays before deciding on my local bodyshop, Elite Accident Repair Centre (EARC). With the risk of Covid-19 turning into a pandemic a
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Repairing An Accident-damaged X250 XF
WE ARE always saddened by the assortment of accident-damaged Jaguars at Eurojag yet equally as curious as to how some of them can be repaired and made roadworthy again. Generally, such an exercise is only financially viable on newish models that have
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E-type Radius Arm Follow-up
Q Thank you for answering my E-type radius arm problem (see August, p74). I have some supplementary queries regarding the improvements you suggest. Firstly, why not a polyurethane replacement bush in the front (large) position? Secondly, what actual
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XJ-S Cylinder Attachment
Q It looks as if my 1977 V12 manual transmission XJ-S needs a clutch master cylinder. I replaced the leaking slave cylinder when it suffered clutch hydraulic failure, but now the system will not bleed. I have initially ordered an overhaul kit for it,
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X150 Gearbox Service Feedback
In the May-June 2020 issue (p79), there was a question from Martyn Calder about changing the transmission fluid of his XK. In the answer, you advised, among other things, that Jaguar has no service requirement for these gearboxes. I’m not sure this i
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Fixing A Misfire
RESOLVING A misfiring engine can sometimes feel like trying to find a needle in a haystack. There are numerous places to look, all of which can identify possible causes, but none of which may offer the answer you’re looking for. As you’ll see over th
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Meet The Expert
Qualifications and past experience? From early childhood, I was forever taking things apart and trying to figure out how they worked. This naturally led to rebuilding pushbikes and then motorbikes. At the age of 15, when I started working Saturdays a
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Gearbox
With both amateur and professional engine builders in mind, SNG Barratt is offering the full range of Hepolite pistons and Payen gasket sets. Manufactured with modern alloy, the pistons allow tighter running clearances, while modern ring packs with a
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Jaguar World Back Issues
£5.50 inc UK P&P (overseas rates apply) • XKR vs Aston Martin DB7• S-TYPE 3.0 vs XJ6 3.0• Modified E-type Series 3• F-PACE SVR first drive• X-TYPE vs 3-Series • Five affordable convertibles• XJ40 vs Rover 800• E-type Series 2• Unique Frua S-type • XJ
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Finishing Lines
THE JAGUAR Mk VII is a grand, stately and luxurious saloon, as our feature on p48 illustrates, but is not an obvious recipe for competition success. Yet the car has a racing pedigree as strong as any other Jaguar, dominating Silverstone’s legendary s

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