Jaguar News
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About 150 new staff will work at the recently established Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicles Operations (SVO) unit that serves as the British automaker’s personalization and performance division. The SVO team’s first product was the F-Type Project 7, which goes on sale later this year, priced from $165,925. The cars, and other SVO projects like the 1963 Jaguar Lightweight E-Type continuation models and high-performance Range Rover Sport SVR, will be built at a new technical center in West Midlands, England. Operations at the new technical center will commence later this year. One...
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Jaguar F-Type Project 7 Rolls Into Pebble Beach With $165,925 Price TagJaguar’s F-Type Project 7 made its world debut back in June at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, but now the stunning speedster is being showcased in its American specification in the lead up to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance taking place this weekend. The biggest difference between...
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First 1963 Jaguar Lightweight E-Type continuation model heads for Pebble BeachBack in February 1963, Jaguar embarked upon the 'Special E-Type GT' project—a series of lightweight, aluminum-bodied variants of the E-Type specially designed for competition. Just 18 cars were planned but only 12 were made—until now. WATCH: Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 Terrorizes...
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2016 Jaguar XE: First Official Photo Released By FactoryIntroducing any new car these days is a long, slow process of dribbling out information to tease eager followers. Cars don't just arrive in dealerships; there's a huge buildup campaign beforehand. In that vein, we now have the first official photo of the new 2016 Jaguar XE, the luxury sports make's...
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2016 XE Will Be The Most Fuel-Efficient Jaguar Ever Thanks To Aluminum ConstructionJaguar’s all-new 3-Series and C-Class fighter, the XE, is set for a reveal on September 8 but the British automaker simply can’t help itself from releasing a few details early. In addition to a teaser photo showing the car’s face, we’ve been given a look at its new aluminum...
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Jaguar Land Rover Buys Huge Classic CollectionMost of us wish we had the money and space for a huge collection of classic and vintage cars, but if you're a major automaker such a collection is much easier to amass. Easier still if, like Jaguar Land Rover, you buy someone else's existing collection of 543 vehicles. Said vehicles belonged to...
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Jaguar has revealed the second completed vehicle to be developed by its new Special Vehicles Operations, and this one’s even wearing the new SVO logo of the personalization department. The vehicle is a bespoke F-Type that not only celebrates Britain’s Team Sky cycling squad competing in the Tour de France, but also further showcases the talents of the men and women at SVO. The bespoke F-Type will be used as a support vehicle for Team Sky during Stage 20 of the Tour de France, which will see riders traverse from Bergerac to Périgueux. It’s based on the F-Type R Coupe...
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Jaguar Confirms September 8 Debut For 2016 XE, Reveals New DetailsJaguar has confirmed it will reveal its all-new XE small sedan at an event in London on September 8, ahead of the car’s formal debut at the 2014 Paris Auto Show in early October. In the lead up to the reveal, Jaguar has started a teaser campaign where the automaker plans to drip-feed...
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Jaguar Land Rover Develops Intelligent Car Tech: VideoJaguar Land Rover hopes increased automation of secondary controls will reduce driver distraction.
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Jaguar Land Rover Gives Details On New Ingenium Four-Cylinder FamilyJaguar Land Rover has developed an advanced four-cylinder engine family, members of which will start appearing in its various models from 2015 onwards. Called Ingenium, the first recipient of the new engine family is expected to be the 2016 Jaguar XE, after which we should see the engines appear in...
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Next Jaguar Land Rover SVO Vehicle May Be A Lightweight F-TypeJaguar Land Rover has just established a new personalization department called Special Vehicles Operations (SVO), which will not only be responsible for coming up with new color and trim options but also to develop high-performance vehicles. The latter will wear the new SVR badge and will initially...
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Jaguar Land Rover Adopting SVR Badge For Performance ModelsJaguar will soon phase out its R-S badge used on its performance cars like the XFR-S and XKR-S, and replace it with a new SVR badge. Sister company Land Rover will also use the SVR badge for new performance models it’s planning, the first of which will be a Range Rover Sport SVR, previewed in...
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The first undertaking of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Vehicles Operations personalization department is the F-Type Project 7, the production version of last year’s Project 7 concept car. Yes, Jaguar has confirmed that it will build 250 examples of the stunning speedster, and will present the car for the first time at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed starting tomorrow. The F-Type Project 7’s arrival marks the 60th anniversary of Jaguar’s D-Type race car, which inspired its design. The Project 7 name, meanwhile, is derived from Jaguar’s seven Le Mans wins...
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Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations To Reveal New Car At GoodwoodIt was only a week ago that Jaguar Land Rover announced the formation of a new department called Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations, whose job will be to handle the personalization of vehicles as well as develop high-performance models and work on historic vehicles. Now, Jaguar Land Rover has...
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1964 Jaguar E-Type Barn Find Has Bugatti Racing PedigreeThe Jaguar E-Type needs no icing on its cake of sultry vintage speed, but this find has some anyway. Once owned by a Bugatti race driver, this E-Type was worked over by a race mechanic at Bugatti’s shop in Molsheim, France, to extract more power—enough for an extra 7 mph of top end...
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2016 Jaguar XE Spy VideoJaguar’s new small sedan to rival the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class will be known as the XE, and a prototype has been spotted at the Nürburgring. As our spy video confirms, the new XE is shaping up to be a very capable sport sedan, with the prototype making short work of the...
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Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations To Build Bespoke And Extreme Performance VehiclesJaguar Land Rover’s existing Engineered To Order division, the British automaker’s personalization department and maker of extreme models such as the 2014 XKR-S GT, is being expanded and in the process will have its name changed to Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations. As we’ve...
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Jay Leno Looks Back At The 2014 Mille Miglia: VideoThe Mille Miglia should be on any gearhead's bucket list. While today's event is merely an homage to the original race that ran each year from 1927 to 1957—stopping only for the second World War—it's still a race of impossible romance and deep appeal. MUST SEE: McLaren P1 Vs. Bugatti...
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It's hard to say which car is the coolest in the world, but Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar XKSS certainly makes our shortlist. MUST SEE: McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson: Video Update This singular Jag currently resides in Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum, but Jay Leno got to take it for a spin on the latest episode of Jay Leno's Garage. It goes without saying that Jay has access to come fairly amazing machines, but the XKSS stands out. The model was essentially a road-going version of the D-Type racer, and only 16 were built. McQueen and a subsequent owner drove...
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2016 Jaguar XE Spy ShotsJaguar is now in the latter stages of development of a small sedan that will target the likes of the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and spy shots of a prototype wearing the production version’s sheet metal have surfaced yet again. The new car was recently confirmed to be called the...
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2016 Jaguar XE Shows Off With See-Through BodyworkThe 2016 Jaguar XE is anything but a secret, but that’s not stopping Jaguar from claiming to be “keeping the XE under wraps” while showing off a prototype clad in clear bodywork. Though the transparent panels do obscure the overall look of the car, its basic proportions come...
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Jaguar Embarks On First Re-Creation Project: Six New 1963 Lightweight E-TypesIn automotive circles, recreations, vehicles that continue original chassis codes and are built using original designs and techniques, tend to have equal numbers of fans and critics. On the plus side, recreations allow a new generation of enthusiasts to get acquainted with classic cars, and even...
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The Last Jaguar XJ220 Ever Built Is For SaleJaguar’s cars have been getting better and better over the past half-dozen years, but even with the sporty goodness of the F-Type Coupe R or the end-of-life agglomeration of the XKR-S GT, there’s nothing like the over-the-top world-beating supercar that was the XJ220. This is the last...
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‘Pride Of The Jaguar’ Is One Man’s Epic 22-Year Journey To His Ideal 1957 Jaguar Mark 1: VideoThe love of cars has driven many of us to do things that are hard to explain to the non-car folks. Jim Jones’ 22-year effort to restore a catastrophically deteriorated 1957 Jaguar Mark 1 is something anyone can appreciate for its dedication, attention to detail, and passion for a job done...
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