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Re: Jag quality reputation Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email] (#32) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:52:03 In Reply to: Jag quality reputation, Brucer, Mon, 8 Dec 2014 12:19:56 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I don't think that's accurate. The XK is based heavily on the XJS which goes back well before Ford's 1990 acquisition. The XJS was obviously quite old by then, and was re-engineered into the XK (an AM-DB) and designed to use Jaguar's new AJV8 instead of the XJS's ancient V12.
The AJV8 began life before Ford took over as well, although it was not built until they did. AFAIK, it was the next phase of the XJ40 plan - an advanced platform that would carry Jaguars for many years to come (which is did - 20 years!). The new AJV motor was intended to be modular, spawning V6 and V12 versions though those never came to be.
Still, much like the XJS underpinnings evident in the XJ, and the XJ40 underpinnings evident in the X300 and X308, evidence of the AJV8's origins is pretty clear in the fact that the it's is powered by the same Denso electronics that Jaguar switched to with the XJ40. Ford didn't get involved and the AJV8 finished development running those same electronics.
Ford was very hands off Jaguar for a long time, and all those first few XJSs, XJs, and XKs were 100% Jaguar products resulting from Jaguar's huge reliability push of the late '80s, beginning with the XJ40. Sadly, the things that tend to mess these cars up is not Jaguar's engineering, but rather the engineering of 3rd parties - for example, I'll throw the garbage ZF transmissions under the bus. Those '90s-era longitudinal boxes were garbage, as any Audi driver will tell you. :)
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