Old, but a spectacular one, Jaguar and of the '61 still strike the most modern XK, this will be tests on road of the two models, carried out respective in 1963 and the 2006 from Quattroruote.
It turns out to you are amazing: in spite of the inferior piston displacement (3,8 liters against the 4,2 of the last XP) , elevated maximum speed catches up in fact one more: 256 km/h against the 250 of “XK 4,2”. Only the consumption beyond the 130 km/h reveals the difference of age between the two models.
In these last decades the automotive technology has worked very many on the plan of the emergency, confort and the pollution, sacrificing however the performances and, sometimes, the emotion and the pleasure of the guide. It gets passionate you of the brand of Coventry will be able however to be consoled with the panoramic one of 14 pages on the Jaguar beautifulr and representative of the history: beginning from 1937, year in which comes introduced the prototype, than also calling “Jaguar”, bring the written SS Cars.
