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The Jaguar Mark X (Mark Ten), later renamed the Jaguar 420G, was British manufacturer Jaguar's top-of-the-range saloon car for a decade, from 1961 to 1970. The large, luxurious Mark X not only succeeded the Mark IX as the company's top saloon model, but radically broke with both its predecessor's styling and technology.
The Jaguar 420 (pronounced "four-twenty") and its Daimler Sovereign equivalent were introduced at the October 1966 London Motor Show and produced for two years as the ultimate expression of a series of "compact sporting saloons" offered by Jaguar throughout that decade, all of which shared the same wheelbase.
Jaguar 420G: Successor to the DR450 and to BMC's Vanden Plas Princess, based on a lengthened Jaguar 420G floorpan with a completely new body; [33] last Daimler without a corresponding Jaguar version, [citation needed] last production car to use the Jaguar XK6 engine [34] Daimler Sovereign: 1969–1983 dohc straight-6, 2791 cc [note 10] or 4235 ...
Introduced late in 1968, the Jaguar XJ6 was slightly larger than the S-Type and 420/Sovereign and swept them both from the Jaguar range, with the Mark 2 continuing as the 240/340. The 420G continued to be available until 1970. Production figures for each year of the S-Type's life were: 1963 – 43 1964 – 7,032 1965 – 9,741 1966 – 6,260
All this built up to 1961 when Jaguar unveiled one of the most iconic cars of all time — the E-type. Sir William Lyons debuting the Jaguar E-Type at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show.
Jaguar launched the E-Type in 1961. 1963 open two-seat E-Type. ... The 420 of 1966, also sold as the Daimler Sovereign, put a new front onto the S-type, although both ...
Jaguar XK engine in a 1955 Jaguar D-Type XK engine in an XK150 Jaguar XK engine in a Jaguar E-Type 4.2-litre XK in a Jaguar 420. The Jaguar XK is an inline 6-cylinder dual overhead camshaft (DOHC) engine produced by Jaguar Cars between 1949 and 1992.
Sovereign 1969 Sovereign 1969. The first Sovereign was a badge-engineered version of the Jaguar 420 saloon, which was itself based on the Jaguar S-Type.. The 420 and Sovereign differed from the S-Type in having a revised four-headlight nose reminiscent of the Jaguar Mark X, and being powered by a 4.2-litre version of the straight-six XK engine.