“The late Geoff Lawson designed this and several other Jaguar cars during the time when Ford was still the lackluster owner.” What started out as a kind of retro-ish pastiche with an obvious nod to the E-Type, the Jaguar XK8 has matured into a handsome swan on today’s roads as contemporary styles have morphed into ugly ducklings around it. The late Geoff Lawson designed this and several other Jaguar cars during the time when Ford was still the lackluster owner. That said, the XK8/XKR is anything but lackluster and helped save the famed badge from becoming yet another defunct British manufacturer.
If a machine can be said to have a character, the XK is one such machine. Not just because of its looks. Although pastiche or otherwise, those lines have…
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European Car (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2015