Jaguar XJ6 in het wild

Deze Jaguar XJ6 die later is omgebouwd tot Daimler Sovereign is een orgineel nederlands geleverde auto met nog geen 100.000 kilometer op de klok. de body is een tijd terug gerestaureerd en gespoten in de prachtige kleur Alpine Green, wat perfect samen gaat met het licht bruine interieur. de auto is volledig nagelopen en werkt zoals dat hoort. bij de auto zit een deel historie en een taxatie raport. bij vragen; bel ons, bericht ons of bezoek onze website in de onderstaande link! hieronder is nog een artikel te lezen wat bij deze auto geschreven is.

Simply the best.

Although this Jaguar is over 50 years old, the Jaguar XJ6 remains the best British saloon car ever built, or maybe even the best the world has ever seen.

The XJ6 was the last Jaguar designed by its brand’s founder, William Lyons. Sir William managed to combine its predecessor’s design language with a modern touch and the masterful 6 cylinders (or even 12). This balance together with an all luxurious interior made it the definition of pure refinement. When the XJ6 entered the showrooms, all existing models became obsolete and Jaguar had to rationalize its range.

The Jaguar XJ6 first came into life as a four-door, four-seater Jaguar E-type which had to take on the fight with the other European saloons and boost sales in America. While the existing MkX/420G and S-type left mixed feelings and never really took on the promise that Jaguar could sell every car it built. The XJ6 on the other hand, couldn’t be built fast enough at Browns Lane, to an extent that Jaguar published full-page advertisements in the motoring press thanking customers for their patience.

The predecessor of the XJ6, the Mkx/420G or also named the Zenith/XJ5s was built over 9 years and counted 25,211 cars made. Jaguar would later build more XJ Saloon in just ONE year.

When the Jaguar XJ6 came out in 1968 it wasn’t the most innovative car nor the fastest, though it set the new standard for luxury cars, even many years after its launch. The engineers at Jaguar went all out to reduce vibrations, road, and engine noise and even had Dunlop develop special high-performance tires, all to make the car as refined as possible.

The Jaguar XJ was the right product at the right price if you could get one. But Jaguar themselves were not done yet and came out with the XJ12 in 1972. The 12-cylinder engine was even more refined and caused less noise in the cabin. The demand was high such that Browns lane couldn’t catch up again. Soon the XJ12 was selling at a £1000 premium over the already £3726. The XJ12 soon was labeled as ‘the car you cannot buy.’

As we all know Jaguar wasn’t always about the best quality and finishing at Jaguar’s. in the 70’s the oil crisis came, paint-chipped easily and body panels with roughly the right shape were used in production. Autocar said; ‘in a car like this the faults hardly matter!’, sadly enough this wasn’t true for everyone and Jaguar was losing lots of money. It was up until 1981 when Jaguar took on the ‘British disease’ that caused lots of problems. Supplier components were sometimes so bad that more than 50% of the parts were rejected. Under stringent new quality control, Jaguar with the now series 3 XJ6 was up to the tasks and sales grew year on year.

The end of the XJ6 came in November 1992, after producing 400,732 cars since 1968. So was this Saloon a success? Yes and no.
The Jaguar was designed by a small team of engineers who managed to build what many critics believe is the best car in the world, but could it be better?
Definitely yes, the XJ6 should have been the car that made Jaguar a major player in the luxurious car market like BMW or Mercedes-Benz. Those german car brands didn’t have trouble selling their cars, and with almost double the price they had enough money to reinvest in modern production technology, something Jaguar was not capable of.

Jaguar XJ6 – redefined British luxury
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