The car's owner drove 3,000 miles across country just so Jay could drive one of his favorite British cars. Back in the 1960s and 1970s there was a glut of European sports car and grand tourers powered by honking-great American V8 motors. It was a much easier and cheaper route to achieving the big power needed to compete with Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Aston Martin. French upstart Facel Vega probably started the trend when it fitted its FV with a 4.5-liter DeSoto Fire Dome V8 in 1954.Many others followed suit, some of them established players, others new to the game. Bristol, Gordon Keeble, Iso, Sunbeam, Rover, Monteverdi, and - most famously - AC all produced legendary cars fitted with bent-eights from across The Pond. Perhaps the most successful, though, was British firm Jensen Motors. It first fitted Chrysler V8s to the rather challenging-looking C-V8 in 1962. Then, in 1966, came the Interceptor, one of the greatest cars ever built in the United Kingdom. The … [Read more...] about Jay Leno takes the gorgeous Jensen Interceptor for a spin
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Jaguar XKSS isn’t actually from the ’50s, but it might as well be
Jaguar's classics team will build nine examples of this stunning recreation supercar. Good food, decent company (sorry, fellow car writers), and a museum full of classic, drool-inducing vehicles. There could be worse ways to cap off Day One of the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show. And worse venues for the debut of yet another stunning classic Jaguar recreation. Tonight, the stage was LA’s impressive Petersen Museum, and the Jag in question the jaw-dropping XKSS you see in the photos here. Just nine of these lovely creatures will drive the Earth, released into the wild next year. This XKSS is actually brand new, build by a team of crack craftsmen on Jaguar Land Rover Classic’s team to nearly the exact specification of the 1957 original. That means a 3.4-liter, inline-six-cylinder engine – as you’d find in the Jaguar D-Type race car – cranking out 262 horsepower (and probably sounding tremendously sexy in the … [Read more...] about Jaguar XKSS isn’t actually from the ’50s, but it might as well be
