The Driver Robert Coucher
Our resident XK owner might not be best pleased by recent news
So, venerable Jaguar has relaunched itself as a snazzy new Panther. A pink one at that. Like Clark Gable, Steve McQueen, George Best, Tony Curtis and that bar steward John Prescott, I suppose I’m a trad Jaaag man, having enjoyed driving my 67-year-old XK for the last 18 years. Pale, stale and male (although Brigitte Bardot enjoyed a good Jag) buffers have long enjoyed Jaguar’s eminent century-long motoring history, but that, in a sweep, has been consigned to the scrapyard by the on-message ‘jaGuar’ bunch, who seem concerned only with androgenous young things uninterested in ‘vehicles’ but who will go for a new ‘jaGuar’ because – according to Jaguar’s MD – ‘I just want to own it’.