After World War II came to a close and SS changed its name to Jaguar ... alloy-bodied roadster from 1949. Stripped to bare metal and repainted in British Racing Green, the XK120 is rocking a ...

Jaguar's XK120 roadster was a smash ... "And all I could see in the distance is a black and white checkerboard that tells me where the mile starts. So I'm accelerating through, long before the ...

Coventry produced only 240 examples of its seminal sports car with aluminum bodywork. We drive the first one imported to the ...

First is Jaguar's XK120. During World War II ... sports car meant Jaguar had steel-bodied XK120s in production. This roadster with its feline grace aroused keen interest, particularly among ...

The Jaguar XK120 holds special significance for the British luxury brand, as it was its first post-WW2 sports car. Though not extremely rare (more than 12,000 of them were made in coupe and ...

The creation of the XK120 in 1948 heralded a new benchmark when it came to production sports car performance, and the model was the first true sports car made by Jaguar since the SS100.

Jaguar’s XK120 was a breath of fresh air as Great Britain heaved a sigh of postwar relief, hitting the scene in 1948 as an open two-seat roadster (OTS) whose performance challenged any sports ...

The Jaguar XK120 Competition Roadster was one of the world's top sports cars when it left the factory in 1953. But over the past 43 years the car has been left abandoned in a Surrey garage ...

The alloy body makes it more than 100 pounds lighter than a steel-body XK120 would be. Jaguar's current rebranding and repositioning in the market has certainly drawn the ire of ardent fans of the ...

When a young Dick Popham of Ellicott City, Maryland, saw his neighbor's Jaguar XK120 in ... Today, that black-and-white photo rides in the glovebox of Popham's E-type coupe. One could argue ...