AGUAR SMATTERINGS

Just some of Jaguar's tantalising concept vehicles

LIKE ALL CAR MANUFACTURERS, S.S. CARS AND Jaguar have made their fair share of concepts. During Sir William Lyons' rule most of them didn't survive, with the exception perhaps of E-Type prototype E2A. Today, fortunately, most do live on as displays and expressions of what might have been.

01 XJ40 Shooting Brake (Station Wagon) concept is one of a number of possible wagons beginning with the Mk2. It didn't make it into the market, but perhaps inspired the X-Type and XF Estates. Before Mike Hawthorn was killed, he and Duncan Hamilton were in the process of building a production run of their own 'Mk1'/Mk2 wagons to be sold through their respective showrooms in Surrey.

02 The XJ-S Eventer is not a factory built car, but certainly looks handsome enough to be one. They are highly sought-after today, very valuable and were converted and sold by Lynx in England. A mere sixtyseven examples were built

03 Some concepts are more practical than others. The F-Type concept was the last car designed by Geoff Lawson and his team before Geoff's sudden death in 1999. The windscreen could never had been legislated for production, but soon after this car was shown serious consideration began on the real F-TYPE.

04 The X300 Daimler Convertible was labelled the Corsica and was very handsome. Initially the car was not a runner, but years later it was completed and registered for the road.

05 Not Sir William Lyons' finest! It is one of his early attempts to replace the XK120 and '140, is fitted with a removable top and is placed for his inspection in the garden drive of his Wappenbury Hall home.

06 Definitely the most sensational Jaguar in decades is the C-X75. It was originally going to be supplemented with turbines, but was built with a supercharged V8 engine. There was demand, but it came to nothing.