Coches Jaguar: resumen de modelos - historia y técnica (2/5)

The Jaguar Story

The Jaguar name is synonymous with style, power, performance, luxury and an intangible element of Britishness. It's hard to imagine its humble origins in a Blackpool backstreet as the Swallow Sidecar Company.
Jaguar Cars was formed in 1945, and the metamorphosis began: superb engines, knockout design, epic racing victories and thrilling sports saloons followed. Over the years it has become a living legend.
Here, Giles Chapman captures the astounding story of this iconic car company with a collection of beautiful pictures.

Jaguar, le mythe anglais

De la compétition aux palaces royaux, des premiers ateliers de Coventry aux usines indiennes, la marque Jaguar ne s'est jamais refusé aucun défi. Pourtant, à travers la ligne de chacun de ses modèles, une identité persiste, celle forgée par son créateur, William Lyons. Elle émane des lignes de ses premières automobiles, qu'il a modelées de ses mains, unissant la puissance et l'élégance au cœur de ces étranges objets qu'il considérait proches du vivant.

Jaguar occupe ainsi une place exceptionnelle au sein de l'univers automobile. Elle a donné naissance à des modèles mythiques, de la Type-E à la XKSS en passant par la XJ6, et à une lignée de moteur, le XK, dont la longévité reste unique...
Aujourd'hui comme demain, Jaguar s'efforcera toujours de propager le souffle de vie que William Lyons transmettait à ses créations.

British Leyland - The Cars, 1968-1986

In 1968, British Leyland brought together most of Britain's motor manufacturers, with the intention of creating a robust unified group that could equal the strength of the big European conglomerates. But this was not to be.

There have been many books about the politics and the business activities of British Leyland, but "British Leyland - The Cars, 1968 - 1986" looks deliberately at the cars that came from the company, both the models it inherited and it created.

The eighteen years of the corporation's existence saw a confusing multitude of different car types, but this book resolves these confusions, clarifying who built what, and when.
The book takes 1986 as its cut-off point because this was the year that the old British Leyland ceased to exist and what was left of the car and light commercial business was renamed the Rover Group.