Another slice of prime British beef, all the better for being served in aluminium wrapping...
This week we delve into the silky but fading world of the old-school Jaguar XJ. Shed believes that if any car deserves some sort of long-service medal for stalwart service to the SOTW cause it’s the XJ. Not because of the number of appearances, mind: Shed doesn’t really keep records as he finds they tend to work against him, but his gut tells him that fewer than one XJ a year has popped up on here over the last decade.
Again that’s important, this time for two reasons. One, because using aluminium instead of steel reduced the XJ’s weight by around 40 per cent, allowing Jaguar to deliver a package of respectable performance and economy in its petrol versions without having to resort to fancy turbochargers and such like. With the lowest-powered Duratec V6-based 240hp AJ30 3.0-litre V6 fitted, the 3.
The second justification for aluminium was that it laid to rest the serious rust worries that nagged earlier steel cars, whose sills could vanish faster than a politician’s promise. X350s could still corrode but that was cosmetic rather than structural. X350 subframes were made of steel but the MOT certificates for our shed paint a refreshing picture of solidity.
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