JAGUAR FILE

 It includes landmark Jaguars such as the R-Coupe shown at Frankfurt a week after the centenary of founder Sir William Lyons’ birth, illustrating how Jaguar design would develop in years to come.  It includes the evolution of the X-type, the first diesel Jaguar and the establishment of new aluminium technology for the new XJ as: “Not so much retooling for a new model, as creating a new branch of motor industry.” 

 

Jaguar began in 1922 building motorcycle sidecars and evolved into one of the world’s leading luxury car manufacturers, a member of Ford’s Premier Automotive Group.  Jaguar’s sporting heritage included winning the Le Mans 24 Hours classic sports car race seven times and competing in Formula 1 Grand Prix racing, the very pinnacle of automotive technology.  Style pacesetter and engineering innovator, Jaguar became a cultural icon with cars like the E-type of 1961, the XJ series of saloons and the S-type, XK8 and XKRs of the 1990s. 

 

This book is a model-by-model account of how this accomplishment came about, from the Austin-Swallow of the 1920s to the long wheelbase XJs of the new millennium.

 

AUTHOR:  Motoring correspondent of The Sunday Times for fourteen years, Eric Dymock trained as an engineer in Glasgow, worked in the motor trade, wrote about cars for local newspapers, and joined the road test staff of The Motor in 1962, later covering grand prix motor racing for The Guardian.

He was motoring correspondent of Town (Haymarket) 1966-1968, News of the World 1973-1975, The Observer 1980-1983 and Scotland on Sunday from 2002. 

Eric Dymock’s Sunday Times column won the Jet Media Excellence Award outright in 1988, his book writing the Guild of Motoring Writers Montagu Award for 1997 and in 2004 he was presented with the Jim Clark Award by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers.