The Jaguar Mark 2 was, is a revelation.
It's easy to see why the Jaguar Mark 2 became so beloved, regularly filling vintage racing grids, auction house lots, car show lawns, and top-10 lists of the greatest sports sedans of all time. This is the original, after all: a four-door with the power and poise to keep up with sports cars, plus luxury in abundance. In post-War Britain it was a revelation. It still is today.
All the ingredients were finally in place with the Mark 2 3.8, and they were executed to perfection. Jaguar's slogan was"Grace, Space, Pace.'' Few cars so successfully live up to their taglines. Everything about the car is elegant, from the way it looks, to the way it drives.contributor Jamie Kitman, who kindly lent it out for a late summer's weekend.
Driving a Mark 2 is a little tricky at first, coming from a modern car. The four-speed is the infamous Moss gearbox, which wasn't good by the standards of the day, and hasn't gotten better in the intervening decades. While 2nd, 3rd, and 4th are synchronized, you still have to shift with patience. Double-clutching on the way up helps, while a good throttle blip is needed on the way down, and at a stop, you must go clutch-out in neutral before you even attempt to put it into first gear.
It all comes down to how the Mark 2 handles. There's a road leading to Lime Rock Park that, if a good bit wider, quite resembles a British B-road. It's pretty heavily crowned, fast, and bumpy in parts, twisting gracefully through the countryside. How the Mark 2 hustled down that road left me astonished. Only when I drove the other way in traffic–seeing how slowly even brand-new cars take the turns–did I realize just how fast I'd driven the Jag earlier.
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