Veteran with a Jaguar obsession - SFGate
I’d always wanted a Jaguar since I was a British schoolboy in the ‘50s. My uncle Bob was a police sergeant, and I remember him parking a shiny black Jaguar police car at our house, all wet with rain. In cinema newsreels and on the new black and white TV sets, Stirling Moss was winning all the British and European races in Jaguars. But I read that Ford, after buying Jaguar, Land Rover, and Aston Martin in 1989, had applied their “Quality is Job 1” program of imitating Japanese-style quality control techniques to Jaguar. The quality and reliability was much improved, and when Jaguar brought out the mid-sized S-Type in 2000 and the compact X-Type in 2002, I started to pay attention. My Jaguar S-Type now has a brother, the larger XJ Saloon. In 2013, I found a great deal online for the XJ, so I flew to Bentonville, Ark. I won’t say how fast it cruised on the empty Interstate through Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, but we didn’t see a state police car the whole way, so we made good time. I’d always wanted a Jaguar since I was a British schoolboy in the ‘50s. My uncle Bob was a police sergeant, and I remember him parking a shiny black Jaguar police car at our house, all wet with rain. In cinema newsreels and on the new black and white TV sets, Stirling Moss was winning all the British and European races in Jaguars. Source: www.sfgate.com
