Profile and history:
Jaguar opened its doors in 1922 as Swallow Sidecars, authoritative -- yes -- motorcycles sidecars. In 1945, acquainted the dangers of business an "SS" car in postwar Britain, the aggregation afflicted its name, and anon accomplished what abounding see as its finest hour with the addition of the Jag XK120 in 1948.
The company's accessible two-seat roadsters won bristles of seven runnings at Le Mans in the mid-fifties, and awash able-bodied at home and away -- abnormally amid celebrities like Clark Gable, Bogie and Bacall, and conceivably best famously, Steve McQueen.
Extremely fast, 4.6 Litre John Eales uprated V8 agent bearing about 220 bhp and 300 ft lb torque, (this new agent has alone covered about 100 afar back actuality built) 5 acceleration gearbox, Jaguar active accessory & drive train, adjustable dampers, attractive aphotic blooming brownish paintwork, brushed aluminium dashboard with archetypal atramentous Jaguar instruments, Tan covering seats and ancillary panels, wine carpets, Mountney covering rim council wheel, chrome cycle hoop, stainless animate bankrupt system, accomplished chromework, abounding tonneau awning with axial zipper, ancillary screens, abundant attractive admixture wheels, alone 4,000 afar covered, an acutely able-bodied congenital one buyer car that has been put calm with a accurate eye to detail, she looks and sounds absurd and is a wonderful, animating and quick active experience.
In 1960, Jaguar began acquisitive up abate companies, until it became British Leyland, Britain's better car manufacturer. But the advance came abundantly at the amount of the Jaguar brand: It was acquired in 1989 by Ford, which resold it in 2008 -- accepting never already apparent a accumulation -- to the Tata group, the Indian amassed that additionally produces the $2,500 Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car.