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When you think Jaguar, cars like the F-Type or XE SV Project 8 might come to mind. But the Jaguar brand didn't always focus on sportiness. It's always put out some seriously great luxury cars. But there's at least one owner out there who thinks the V-12 powered XJ12 of the 1990s might be the last one truly worthy of the Jaguar name.
The X300-generation XJ, built up until 1997, was the last V-12 powered Jaguar. Peter Muurman, owner of this XJ12 featured on the latest video from Petrolicious, believes the engine was essential to providing the pure refinement and elegance one expects from a big Jaguar sedan.
The XJ12 was never supremely fast, but it did the luxury thing extremely well. Later variants of the XJ may have more tech and sound-deadening, but none can match the feeling comes along with twelve under-stressed cylinders.
Road & Track staff writer with a taste for high-mileage, rusted-out projects and amateur endurance racing.
