It is the latest in our series of special-edition magazines, focusing on the fabled Coventry-based marque, via stories from the past 20 years of Classic & Sports Car. With 196 pages of classic Jaguar goodness, you won’t want to miss this special issue.
Welcome
JAPANESE LEGENDS • Our favourite machines from the land of the rising sun
Jaguar Legends
JAGUAR’S FIRST LIGHTWEIGHT • This pared-back, factory-sanctioned special turned the potent SS100 into a successful competition car – and it just happens to be a twin for the doodlings of one daydreaming schoolboy…
Variations on the SS theme
JUST FOR THE RECORD • Launched in 1948 almost as a stop-gap, the svelte XK120 stunned the world with its affordable performance
MORE THAN A FELINE • Comparing arguably the finest modified XK120 with the purity of a standard example to find out if you really can improve on Jaguar’s seminal XK series
SPECIAL XK • When one of Italy’s finest coachbuilders redefined the Jaguar with a style born out of aviation, it landed upon the XK120 Supersonic by Ghia
The father of the Supersonic
GLITZ & CLAMOUR • Despite radically different approaches from each side of the Atlantic, the Ford Thunderbird and Jaguar XK140 have more in common than you might think
“I won many a race behind the wheel of that car, just sitting in the garage” • Time spent in this driver’s seat set one grandchild on a path to America’s most celebrated racing team – and back behind the wheel of that very Jaguar XK140
Age before beauty • Everyone is seduced by the sexy E-type, especially in Series 1 guise, but what if the alternative is its glorious predecessor, the XK150?
THE MIDLANDS DERBY • With the 541, Jensen threw down a gauntlet to Jaguar. But can a 541R really trade punches with an XK150?
‘Of all the attempts to restyle the XK150, the Bertone was in a different league’ • As spectacular as it is elusive, the ‘XKE’ was the beautiful result when Nuccio Bertone and Franco Scaglione took on Jaguar’s XK150
STILL SEXY • Jaguar’s sensational C-type made its debut at Le Mans in 1951 and won, but the story of how it got there is just as remarkable
Sir Stirling Moss on Le Mans in ’51
Jaguar’s wind-tunnel visionary
WONFOR THEROAD • Jaguar D-type and Aston DB3S: hitting the highway in two of the greatest sports-racers ever built
DB3S/6 in detail
XKD526 in detail
JAGUAR D-TYPE • The seminal 1950s sports-racer reveals its secrets via the once hallowed medium of the cutaway line drawing
Racing history
WHITE HEAT • Jaguar’s remarkable E2A prototype started life as a test car but evolved into the works Le Mans sports-racer that spawned the iconic E-type
ENJOYED SUPERCAR LEGENDS? • If so, you’ll love Classic & Sports Car magazine, bringing you the greatest cars, the finest photography, and the most entertaining and expert writers from across the classic car world every month.
Across the Alps in Jaguar’s show-stopper • The launch of the E-type has passed into legend. The very car that stunned the 1961 Salon de l’Auto makes a return trip to Geneva over the Swiss Alps
‘Let’s race all the way to Dead Man’s Curve…’ • Reviving a bitter transatlantic rivalry that played out on the streets – and in the charts – of ’60s America
LIGHTWEIGHT LEGEND • After 30 years in hiding and a sensitive refurbishment, the world’s most original Jaguar E-type Lightweight broke cover in 2006
THE 12 APOSTLES • Jaguar’s two-plus-two proves that you don’t need a six-figure bank account to join the ranks of V12 GT ownership, but can it match up to the four-seat Ferrari elite?
THE LEGENDS SERIES
SIX OF ONE • The...