My Jaguar Story

The Jaguar XJ-S (later called XJS) is a luxury grand tourer manufactured and marketed by British car manufacturer Jaguar Cars from 1975 to 1996, in coupé, cabriolet and full convertible bodystyles. There were three distinct iterations, with a final production total of 115,413 units over 20 years and seven months. Originally developed using the platform of the then current William Heynes designed XJ saloon, the XJ-S was noted for its prominent rear flying buttresses. The early styling was partially by Jaguar's aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer — one of the first designers to apply advanced aero principles to cars. Sayer died just before the XJ-S body styling was frozen for production. In its final iteration produced from 1991 to 1996, was manufactured after Jaguar was acquired by Ford, who introduced numerous modifications — and eliminated the hyphen in the name, marketing Jaguar's longest running model simply as the XJS.

My car shown here is a 1992 model, commonly known as the up-date model. This car has a rare (for Australia) 4.0 Ltr. 6 cyl engine, the AJ6. A well proven Jaguar engine.

I purchased the car in 2020 out of Perth, and now resides in Adelaide, South Australia. With only 92,000 klms on the clock the car was in good overall condition though clearly suffering from a lack of road use and some abuse in terms of maintenance and general care.