Jaguar XJ40 Shooting Brake estate car prototype re-commissioned by Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- Wayne Scott, Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine Editor interviews David Marks, JEC Technical Advisor and Proprietor of David Marks Garages.
In 1992, Jaguar had never made a production estate car, although they went on to make the X-TYPE estate in 2004 and the XF Sportbrake in 2012.
Earlier, Sir William Lyons had become interested in developing an estate car based on the successful XJ saloon. In his retirement, he experimented with sticks and string on his personal XJ but it was nothing more than experimentation. Then, there were several private coachbuilt conversions of the S3 XJ6 and XJ-S like the Lynx Eventer but these were rare and often expensive options.
By the late 1980s, Jaguar had become more interested in developing an estate car, based on the new XJ40. This was an official project undertaken by the Design and Engineering Centre at Whitley and resulted in an XJ40 ‘Shooting Brake’ which was seriously considered for production before fears over costs and market confidence canned the project.
One car was built however and is now owned by the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, but has been out of action for the best part of two decades.
Now, in partnership with the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club and David Marks Garages, the car has undergone a recent recommissioning and is now back on the road. The Club and David Marks have had a long history with the car having taken part in the JEC’s Entente Cordial trip with it during the 1990s. Since then, the car has covered only a few hundred miles, with just over 7K on the clock since it was completed at Whitley.
It was displayed in the JDHT collection with a Perspex bonnet for many years, its original steel bonnet has now been reinstalled as part of the recommissioning. The braking system has been overhauled and a full programme of maintenance and repair work carried out ready for the car to be used on the road once more.
The car was unveiled with a new MoT having driven on the road for the first time in many years at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon on 6th April 2024 outside the JDHT collection during the Jaguar Breakfast Club Meeting that featured a celebratory display dedicated to the XJ40.
Further work, including an overhaul of the self-levelling suspension system, will now be carried out with enthusiasts able to follow the project in its various stages through the pages of Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine in the coming months.
Visit the JEC and join/ subscribe to receive copies of Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine: www.jec.org.uk
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Fantastic the Jaguar XJ40, maybe the best Jaguar of late half century
The many beautiful Jaguar concepts that sadly never made production 🥹
Good but please it's about cars, yes let's hear the commentary, it's interesting, but why don't you show more of the car!
Couldn't agree more!!
So annoying to see the two talking while ignoring the car...
Brings back memories. I actually drove that car in the late 90's from in front of the Browns lane office block back to inside the factory where some of the heritage cars were stored.
I couldn't really see the car, especially the estate portion from the side.
It's a pity that this didn't go into production. It really holds together as a design.
The one next to it XJI 1555 I drove past this on the M25 near Staines around a year ago and was desperate to try and photograph it, but just couldn’t get next to it. Was amazing to see, I think there were 3 of these made.
Dave Marks, best mechanic I ever met, and a straightforward , honest bloke. He knows XJ40s inside out and always had an answer to my XJ40 problems. The XJ40 was a most underrated model, but was actually a quantum leap from the previous models with massively improved MPG and corrosion resistance. Don't believe the hype, they are a great cat car for little money. Maybe it's time I bought another!
My best mate has a 4.0 Daimler, 1 1/2 series XJ 40.
Wonderful car, fast, quiet, great suspension, and road holding.
Edit: could you point me in your mechanics direction as my mate has some odd spare parts problems.
Ugliest headlights ever USA versions far nicer with 4 round lights than rectangular lights UK got
@@brian3174 you got both in the UK, was simply an options box to tick. With one exception UK Version were excellent Hella halogen lights perhaps the brightest I've ever seen, the US sealed headlights perhaps the worst ever.
@@brian3174 The square lights were better than the round ones, which were very poor on dipped beam.
@@DennisPriestley-mc3kk looks wise traditional 4 round lights on xj6 and jaguar went back to 4 lights as buyers didn't like rectangular shape lights from cars reveal public started buying BMW Mercedes Audi rather than xj40 because of looks I didn't think it was a bad car as it was an improvement too earlier xj6 redesign was bad move typical British Leyland as they'd habit building ugly old fashioned cars with numerous badges like process Austin 3 litres then in 70s they ruined UK manufacturing cars
Very interesting to see! I use my Jaguar Sovereign XJ40 1991 as a daily driver in the summer here in Canada. It has 215000km.
I wish you could buy these cars now great cars touring sport Jaguar😊😊😊❤
Hi David. Well done - lovely looking car - well done for taking great care of it. See you soon. Peter
It is a really lovely car I must say. A very attractive body, with the Jaguar cues still quite evident.
It is quite amazing that a company that had some very good looking cars only produced 2 estates (X type and XF). This simply meant that anyone planning to use their car outside work, needed to look elsewhere and excluding most possible purchasers.
The major problem with Jaguar is the astonishingly blinkered view of the car market. By all means make cars in Coventry, but do not let Coventry anywhere near car definition.
Really liked TAC, prettiest one of the two wagons. Jaguar wagons are rare.
Beautiful car 😊😊❤❤
I remember seeing one of these in Harrogate about 20 years ago
The 3 Series Touring Estate bmw sold like hot cakes 🎂 😊❤ so could jags
5 Series and also the Mercedes Benz W123 and W124.
Saw it the other week at Nottingham Motor Show and it literally stopped me in my tracks such a shame the shooting brake never became a model.
Wonderfully informative video. Well done David!
But no discussion of the differences between the 2 estate styles. The green one, is more is sharper style, being more angular then the silver one. Both are visually acceptable to me. I owned 5 XJ40's, 3 all at once. Lovely cars.
Very interesting. However the dark green one is much more attractive design.
Lovely car, I would have bought that in preference to the XK40 Sovereign I did buy - so many years ago.
Beautiful car.
NO it is an Estate car. NOT a shooting brake, get your shit together.
Sorry call me old fashioned but a shooting brake is a two doored car this is just an estate with four doors, big difference.
Steady on chap, , you’re not on your estate now .
This is the common man’s interpretation.
Old fashioned you are for sure.
But you are right
Its a " shoot the brakes" 😂
Great cars,, more style and classy. Than any bmw or Mercedes
Would love to have enough money to get someone to build me one of them.
The rear is better on the green SW, the side in the silver...
It's an absolute shame Jaguar have withdrawn the XJ model from their fleet, especially as they're going all electric in response to the so-called 'green' agenda. There's an old saying about putting your eggs in one basket of which we can see the results today.
Agree. The current lineup and engine choice is nothing short of abysmal.
I'm terribly afraid the brand won't be around for long.
The essence has been diluted to such a point that it's no longer a meaningful car brand.
Fields full of cars nobody wants to buy🤷♂️🙄
They both look magnificent, but the silver one is the more elegant👍🏻❤️
While cool, the XJ40 was looking ancient by the time this would have been available to buy, and would have had to be sold concurrently with the X300 to have had any lifespan. Comparisons against an E39 BMW or W210 Benz estate would likely not have been kind.
X300 is based on the same platform/body structure as XJ40, there was really no tecnichal reason - it's a money/business case issue - why X300 shouldn't have had an estate based on the work on the XJ40 version. Jaguar have always struggled with making the case for an estate model , even though the german competition were often selling up to 50% estates. When they have later produced estates - X , XF, they haven't sold as well as you might expect, so looks like Jaguar customers just aren't looking for an estate and they haven't been able to attract people over from other brands to any great extent.
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Why would it need to be a practical prototype? It should have its original air suspension system restored to as functional as it ever was. The owner or keeper of the peculiar Jag heritage piece can go up the Beejam or Do-It-All in a bog-standard Granada estate or something even more common.
LoL “extremely reliable “ what are you smoking?
Boring... Or what!
The ugliest car ever built was the E Type, it went catastrophically down hill after that. I think Ferraris joke about it being beautiful was let the designers think they had carte Blanche. In fairness to Ferrari his comment were designed to push Jaguar into having the E Type as its holy grail and it effectively bankrupted them.
The E was vastly over hyped . How some attain 135,000 is bizarre ..
The Xk120,140 and 150 were far better looking
Nonsense
Ugliest car ever - you must be the self appointed chief commissioner of the fashion police? Thankfully Your opinion counts for very little.
@@Mhor-group agree had 3 s2xke 6. cylinders then. XKE. S3V12 great cars. Lovely cars or ENZO FERRARI STATED MOSTT BEAUTIFUL CAR HE EVER SAW NO BRAIIN TROLL
Probably the worst attempt at trolling ever, but nice try.