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This web page shows various magazine articles in French, Dutch, and German. They are shown in chronological order from 1968-1989. Another web page shows non-English magazine articles from 1990-present. Also, there are parallel web pages with English language articles 1968-1986 and 1987-present.
Click on a page to obtain a medium size view. With that medium size view, a menu of choices appears: step to the other pages of the article, get a large view, or get a contrast enhanced view on the text (which gives much better readability, but ruins the photographs).
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Nieuwe Daimler Limousine
Magazine: Autokampioen Date of publication: (#24), 15 juni 1968 Language: Dutch This article follows the text from the 1968 Press Release quite closely. Does the engine on page 2 (click here to enlarge it) really look like an XK engine? |
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Daimler Limousine
The car features car SHP292N, which was Jaguar's Royal Household Demonstrator. It is also shown in this English language magazine article. |
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Zeit ist Geld
Magazine: Auto Motor Sport Date of publication: 7 March 1984 Language: German
This article describes the 1984 Office Car.
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Daimler da lavoro
Magazine: Quattroruote Date of publication: Maggio 1984 Language: Italian The title: "Daimler for work"; an article on the office car; May 1984 |
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"Home James"
Fahrbericht Daimler Limousine Author: Wolfgang König Magazine: Auto Motor Sport Date of publication: 10/1984 Language: German This article features the famous office car, to which an entire page elsewhere on this site has been devoted. Near the end of this article the author writes that the German authorities up till now have banned the DS420 from admittance, because of insufficient free space between driver and steering wheel. |
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Daimler Limousine
Et s'il n'en reste qu'une Magazine: Auto Moto Rétro Date of publication: (#71), July 1986 Language: French Several pictures in this article show that the car has a rear side window of the wind-down type, i.e. before summer 1972. This is of course a very strange detail for an article published in 1986. However, the introductory text says that, after a career of 18 years, this car will -at last- be distributed in France. These "18 years" are indeed consistent with a publication date of 1968+18=1986. A remarkable point is on the lower left picture of page 2: the rear windows have no winding handles because they are electrical, but the driver (page 4) has to wind by hand. |
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Une auto moderne en habit d'autrefois
Magazine: Auto & Prestige Date of publication: (#2), Aug/Sept 1986 Language: French |
The previous French article (Auto Moto Rétro) already discussed the fact that in 1986 the French Jaguar distributor (Axel Vilaseca) decided to bring the limo to the French market. But he also decided that a batch of cars should be equipped without division between driver and passenger. The pictures in this article are from one of those cars. Strange enough, the text in the article nowhere touches upon this special interior, and even describes the non-existent division in some detail. One of the pictures on the forelast page shows the central gearshift handle in the floor, which is for the GM400 gearbox. But the technical specs on the same page talk about a Borg Warner gearbox (which was discontinued several years earlier). All this -and more- suggests that the text is unrelated to the car (709FMF75) in the illustrations. Somewhat more information on this French batch of cars (some 20 were sold) can be found in the book Jaguar, les berlines by Dominique Pagneux, ed. E.T.A.I. To suit the local taste, almost all cars got two-colour paint: dark grey over light grey, or a beautiful champagne-rose over light goldish brown. |
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La Jaguar en Robe du Soir
Author: Michel Leroux
Magazine: Auto Références
Date of publication: (Nº 2), July-August 1989
Language: French
The article features car 2409YP95.
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