JAGUAR XJ SERIES I-III

JAGUAR’S E TYPE ranks as its most visually compelling model, but the XJ6 Series I was without doubt the brand’s most important.

The XJ Series radically influenced prestige-vehicle design and left it in Jaguar’s keeping for more than a decade. The XJ6 blended traditional leather trim and walnut veneers with immense strength and the most sophisticated suspension available at that time beneath a mass-production saloon.

Jaguar’s Sir William Lyons was personally responsible for the XJ’s engaging shape. Nowhere upon the Series 1 exterior did the word ‘Jaguar’ appear, simply because the people who built them knew that their new car could not be mistaken for anything else.