February 2023

Jaguar World

The world's best selling independent Jaguar magazine.

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Jaguar World
www.jaguar-world.com Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL Editor: Paul Wager paul.wager@kelsey.co.uk Editor at Large: Paul Walton Technical Editor: Rob Hawkins Technical Consultant: Ray Ingman Seni
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First Word
I seem to have been occupied to an unusual extent with tyres this month, not helped by the onset of winter weather. First came a mate’s request to assist him with converting his mountain bike tyres to a modern tubeless set-up which was quick enough a
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UK Production Reduced
In a move which many will no doubt link to the departure of CEO Thierry Bolloré, JLR is to reduce production at its Solihull and Halewood plants between January and March. In a further blow to the Jaguar brand, it seems that while body panel producti
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Change At The Top For Jlr
In a surprise announcement on November 16, Jaguar Land Rover announced the imminent departure of its CEO, Thierry Bolloré, set to depart on December 31 after just two years in the top job. Personal reasons were cited for his departure, but various so
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Rebrand for Silverstone Classic
The hugely successful Silverstone Classic gets a fresh identity for 2023, with the announcement of the Silverstone Festival marking a new era for the venue’s annual spectacular – set to take place over next year’s August bank holiday weekend. A rebra
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Drop-in EV kit
Oxfordshire firm Electrogenic, known for its ‘drop in’ EV conversion kits, has expanded its range to include the Jaguar E-Type. Engineered and developed in the UK, the Electrogenic kits use the firm’s own electronic systems for battery and charging m
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Newnorthernvenue Plan
Hagerty International has announced a new partnership with Great Northern Classics, a specialist hub for the classic vehicle industry, which aims to provide workshops for businesses in the sector as well as presenting a calendar of enthusiast-led eve
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Affordable Barn-find Mk2
Showing that they’re still out there, as we went to press H&H offered an intriguing barn-find Mk2 in its November 30 sale. believed to be a one-owner vehicle, the original UK-supplied right-hand drive 3.8- litre car had apparently been in dry storage
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New Online Auctions
A brand new online auction site – biddingclassics.com – has launched, with its first sales already up and running at the time of writing. The inaugural auctions comprise an impressive looking 1971 Datsun 240Z and a 1979 MGB roadster, with others due
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Considerate Parking Campaign
Now here’s something refreshingly different from the private parking industry. The British Parking Association launched a new phase of its ‘Selfish parking’ campaign on December 1, highlighting why it’s simply not OK to misuse a blue badge or disable
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ULEZ Scrappage Threat
The controversial Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is set to cover every London borough by next summer, it has been confirmed – with the move set to impact large numbers of older-car owners living within the affected area, raising fears that modern cla
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Letters
EMAIL: jwm.ed@kelsey.co.uk FACEBOOK: Facebook/JaguarWorldMonthly INSTAGRAM: jag.world Forgive the self-indulgence and the quality of pictures on my old Nokia but I feel compelled to report on the demise of ‘Monty’, my X300 XJ6 who has finally succumb
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Paul Walton
WHEN I was heading home following a photo shoot in Warwickshire recently, I decided to take a brief detour to visit the nearby Wappenbury Hall. As the home of Jaguar’s founder and chairman, Sir William Lyons, for 48 years, it’s an important part of t
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Gearbox
Coventry Auto Components has recently reintroduced several previously unavailable rare pieces of hood finishing trim for the XK140 and XK150 Drop Head Coupe (DHC) models. These include a wood capping trim set for the XK150, comprising all six end pil
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Craig Cheetham
ACCORDING TO the well-known saying, you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you. For a freelance journalist, then, disagreeing with the editor of this fine magazine might not seem the brightest of ideas. Having read Paul’s Editor’s Letter at the start
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Clarkes Xjs World
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Keith Helfet
WHEN I was studying engineering in Cape Town during the early Seventies, one of the topics covered was aerodynamics which came under the umbrella of fluid dynamics. Comprising of equations for drag, Reynolds numbers and boundary layers, these were al
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Straight And Narrow
AFTER THE reams of textwhich have been published around the automotive world this year commemorating the centenary of Jaguar Cars, you could probably be forgiven for feeling pretty well clued-up on the firm’s motorsport history. From XKs powering to
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Legion Of Honour
WITH ITS thumping 5.0- litre supercharged V8 and its sensational handling, the Jaguar XFR is a pretty special car at the best of times. But in 2010, the Stratstone dealer group – one of the brand’s most prolific retailers – commissioned a special run
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Lightweight E-Type
S OME ARE born great, some achievegreatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them,” wrote William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. If the famous quote can also be applied to cars then it perfectly describes this 1961 E-Type open-two-seater. Not only
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Modified
IT’S NOT often that I giggle when testing a classic car – it’s crucial and important work, I take my job seriously. But when I give the throttle of this XJ12 Series 3 the beans, causing the car to rush forward with a forcefulness I wasn’t expecting,
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S Express
WHILE IT may be a brand we love as owners and enthusiasts, it’s fair to say that by the early 1990s Jaguar had an image problem. Its range had focused upon a single model for over two decades, and that model’s audience was ageing. Like it or lump it
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Man Alive
BRITAIN IS full of motoring destinations, race tracks and museums. But one location seems to have it all – stunning scenery, epic roads, many of them with no speed limits and motorsport heritage the likes of which you won’t find anywhere else. It’s b
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XJ-S ‘classic’
BEFORE TAKING to the helm of Jaguar World, I spent many years working on the company’s general classic car titles and during that time one central theme was not, as you might expect, that of a world stuck in the past but one of constant change. As in
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2003 Xj8
WHEN I last reported on the XJ8 in our December issue, I had only recently been reunited with the car, which after its Covid-interrupted repaint had been passed around between staffers with the ‘to-do’ list gradually lengthening. I mentioned in my l
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2000 Xk8 4.0
ALTHOUGH THE 18th century French philosopher and mathematician, the Marquis de Condorcet, once advised to, “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another,” I still find pitching my XK8 against rivals from the same era to be a fascinat
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XF Gearbox And Differential Oil Changes
THE SIX-SPEED ZF automatic gearbox fitted to the first-generation of XF seen here is also found in a number of other Jaguars and even non-Jaguars. However, there are a few differences, such as the earlier gearboxes having a removable filter inside th
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Q&A
Q I own a 1963 Mk2 3.8 Jaguar which gets used occasionally at the weekends. I have had a consistent issue with oil leaking from the rear axle output shaft seal, hence contaminating the brakes. Several specialists have attempted to rectify the fault b
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XK8 Rust-proofing
BACK IN 2016, we spent a long week with this X100-generation steel-bodied XK8 at independent Jaguar specialist Tasker and Lacy completing numerous repairs and rustproofing the underside, chassis legs, sills and wheelarches with a variety of products.
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From The Archives
It’s a delightfully offbeat shot this month as we see a young King Charles at the wheel of a ‘medium wheeled tractor’ (a Scottish-made Terex 72-51 loader) during a visit to the Royal School of Military Engineering back in 1985. During the visit, the
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Finishing Lines
DUE TO the global economic downturn of the early Nineties, Jaguar and its racing partner, TWR, had already pulled out of the World Sportscar Championship at the end of the 1991 season and then the American IMSA series the following year. But with the

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