THE all-new, mid-sized Jaguar S-type arrives this month. Offered with a V6 or V8 engine and a standard five-speed automatic transmission, the rear-wheel-

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Type blends Jaquar’s styling heritage with modern underpinnings including a fully independent suspension, and available anti-skid system.

The cat comes hack in retro reve

IB cars like the Jaguar
S-Type, VW New
Beetle, Plymouth
Prowler and Ford
Thunderbird prototype
are any indication of
the future of automo-
bile design, then the
future is THEN — not
now.

Major automobile manu-
facturers are returning to
their styling roots to retrieve
classic designs — or at least,
classic styling elements —
then incorporating them into
otherwise modern automo-
biles.

Jaguar Cars is particularly
suited to this retro revolu-
tion.

Styling has always been
one of Jaguar’s strongest
suits, and many Jaguar mod-
els have become recognized
classics — including the
$S100, XK-120, C-Type, D-

ype, Mark | and
> pe, and even the XJ6.

The new Jaguar S-Type
sedan revives a name that
belonged to a mid-size
Jaguar sport sedan which
was produced from 1963 to-
1968.

The 1963 S-Type was a
handsome, upscale, five-pas-
senger sedan derived from
the popular 1959 Mark 2
sedan, It was available with a

litre or 3.8 fitre inline

cylinder engine, and had
an independent rear suspe:
sion borrowed from the E-

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Type sports car.

At the time, it was
Jaguar’s fastest production
sedan.

The new Jaguar S-Type
borrows many of the original
S-Type’s styling elements,
including a centrally-posi-
tioned elliptical grille with
vertical flutes, hood contours
that merge gracefully with
the headlights, larger outer
headlamps and smaller inset
driving lights, rounded rear
side windows, and a down-
ward-sloping character line
on each side of the car.

Only the S-Type’s high
tail bows to modern syling
trends

lid and large tailights con-
trast with the original S-
Type’s sloping trunk and
smaller tailights.

Perhaps Jaguar’s stylists
were cognizant of the ill-
fated Infiniti J30 whose

Base price: $59,950

Type: four-door, five-passenger mid-size

sedan

ayout: longitudinal front engine /rear-

el-drive

Engine: 3.0 L V6, DOHC, 24 valves
- Horsepower: 240 @ 6,800 r.p.m.

Torque: 221 @ 4,590 rp.m.

designed at Jaguar’s Whitley
Engineering Centre in ‘
Coventry, England and is
built in Jaguar’s renovated
facility at Castle Bromwich

rounded rear contours
proved unpopular,

Sloping tails, like those of
the original Mark 2 and S-
Type, just aren’t popular
with today’s buyers.

The new S-Type was See S-Type page 32

Technical data

Transmission: five-speed automatic
Curb weight: 1,656 kg (3,650 Ibs.)
Length: 4,860 mm (191.3 in.)
Width: 1,819 mm (71.6 in.)
Height: 1,416 mm (55.7 in.)
Trunk capacity: 370 L (13.1 cu. ft.)
Tires: 225/55HR-16

Warranty: four years/80,000 km

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