Jaguar were always good at that - they hired the cleverest guys. I just remember the XJ40 looking really old even when it was launched, a time when the Series III really was making a comeback. For all that though it was unmistakably a Jag, unlike the stuff they make now. It probably did look old or...

My word, this thing is handsome . I do like American cars. When I was a small child I had an obsession with covered headlights so I'm rather fond of 'Seventies Lincolns too. I blame Frank Cannon. And of course the daddy of them all - the clam headlights on the '65 Buick Riviera. Bally marvelous whe...

My word, this thing is handsome.

I do like American cars. When I was a small child I had an obsession with covered headlights so I'm rather fond of 'Seventies Lincolns too. I blame Frank Cannon.

The 'eighties glory of the XJ40 launch video is on Youtube. No doubt this will have been playing on a 14" SONY monitor TV in some cosy corner of the dealer. Welcome to 1986. I actually went to the launch party of the XJ40 at my local Jag dealer with my father. I was at school at the time and af...

I don't think it had, but BL was incapable of calculating the value in the various marques it owned.

When was this - I'm guessing mid 1980s?

I remember them as being well regarded generally - except perhaps for rust.

I would say the Acclaim was seen as a bit posher than the Maxi (maybe just me!)

This car is very, very nice. I must get to grips with the TDW motoring section. My grandfather had a factory RHD Buick Roadmaster which he bought new in 1948. That had a similar profile to this Pontiac. The US produced some of the best looking car in the world at that time - and did so right up to t...

You'll be glad* to know that Jag kept most of those rust traps right up to the X308 for the traditional Jag owning experience. Especially the one where the footwell to sill seam rots & leaves a damp patch under your outside foot. Heritage innit! Sure is... https://www.thedarkwob.co.uk/viewtopic...