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Jan 30, 2015 · The company was originally called the Swallow Sidecar Company and, from 1934, SS Cars. From 1931 its cars were called the SS models – such as the 1935 SS 1 pictured. After the Second World War, Lyons decided to drop the SS tag and introduce a new company name.
Jaguar first appeared in September 1935 as a model name on an SS 2½-litre sports saloon. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] A matching open two seater sports model with a 3½-litre engine was named SS Jaguar 100 . On 23 March 1945, the S. S. Cars shareholders in general meeting agreed to change the company's name to Jaguar Cars Limited.
Today’s Jaguar family wouldn’t be the same without them. Part one sees the early years of evolution from 1935 until 1959. We start with the very first Jaguar model and travel through to motorsport success and the creation of the pioneering sports saloon segment.
Oct 2, 2023 · The roots of Jaguar can be traced back to 1922, when two motorcycle enthusiasts, William Lyons and William Walmsley, founded the Swallow Sidecar Company in Blackpool, England. Initially focused on building motorcycle sidecars, the company soon ventured into car body manufacturing.
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After the hostilities had ended (and the company had dropped its now politically awkward S.S. name to just Jaguar) production of the company’s post-war models was restarted. Its first all-new car, the MkV, was a handsome saloon, but very much a stopgap. Behind the scenes a brand new car was being developed that would feature the new engine dreamt u...
In 1951 Jaguar employed a former aeronautical aerodynamicist, Malcolm Sayer, to do it. Although the car had a new tubular chassis frame and a more aerodynamic body, it was christened the XK 120C, which was soon shortened to just C-type. With the 3.4-litre XK engine under the bonnet, the car was quick and reliable, as proven when it won the 1951 Le ...
Although the XKSS was very much Jaguar’s past, 1960 saw the first hint of the company’s future. At that year’s Le Mans the American racing team, Briggs Cunningham, entered a new type of Jaguar. With its cowled lights and oval grille, it was clearly inspired by the D-type but was larger and with better proportions. This was the E2A. a one-off protot...
Behind the scenes Jaguar had been working on its first new engine since the XK unit from 1948, a 5.3-litre VI2 that had been developed from the XJ13’s 5.0. Aimed squarely at the American market, it would become a Jaguar mainstay for the next 30 years. The first car to feature the engine was the E-type Series 3 from 1971, making it a very different ...
Help arrived in the shape of John Egan who became Jaguar’s chairman in 1980. This former Massey Ferguson director soon instigated a comprehensive drive to improve the build quality of Jaguar’s cars which had slumped under the management of British Leyland. The problem of Jaguar’s economy was also partially solved thanks to a redesigned cylinder hea...
The first car to be launched under Ford’s ownership was a special one, the XJ220. Starting life as a concept in 1988, it was subsequently put into production by a satellite operation that was owned jointly by TWR and Jaguar. With a top speed of 217mph this was a fully paid up member of the supercar club, a rival to the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959. ...
The all-new XJ X350 arrived in 2003 which, although still following the XJ’s traditional design, was constructed from aluminium, producing a car that was both light and rigid. The majority of Jaguar’s future models would be produced from the material. This included the XK8/XKR’s replacement in 2005, the new XK150 XK which had been developed under t...
In 2010 Jaguar enlarged the capacity of its V8 to 5.0 litres, which when supercharged to over 500bhp, boosted the performance of any car it was fitted to. The XKR became a harder-edged sports car, with the ultimate version being the 2013 XKR-S GT. With power increased to 542bhp and lowered, lightened and coming with a full aero package, the car was...
To trace the birth of Jaguar, we go back to the northern English seaside town of Blackpool, where a young motorcycle enthusiast by the name of Bill Lyons, not yet 21 years of age, met William Walmsley, who was building a stylish sidecar which he was attaching to reconditioned motorcycles.
The first models were saloons (sedans) powered by Standard engines. In 1935, a pivotal moment arrived with the introduction of the SS Jaguar 2.5-litre saloon. This car marked the debut of the iconic “Jaguar” name, initially used as a model designation.
