Jaguar workshop manuals

About Jaguar

Jaguar began in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company, making motorcycle sidecars and then car bodies, and took the Jaguar name in 1945. After years within British Leyland it became independent again in 1984, was bought by Ford in 1990, and in 2008 Ford sold it, with Land Rover, to Tata Motors; the two were merged into Jaguar Land Rover in 2013.

Good to know

• The XJ saloon (1968–2019) was Jaguar's flagship from 1970. The Vanden Plas is its luxury version, and its generations are known by codes: Series 3, XJ40 (1986), X300 (1994) and X308 (1997).
• Jaguar and Land Rover have shared engineering centres at Whitley and Gaydon since the Ford era.

Sources: Wikipedia — Jaguar Cars, Jaguar XJ.