There are cars to love, but would you drive one of those daily? Without ABS? Like a Citroen DS, or a Jag XJ Series 3. Series 3? With those big bumpers? Are you kidding?

No. I always liked the Series 3, despite or because of the bumpers. They made the car look much more modern and solid, which it wasn’t of course.

Till Knowles Wilkins Engineering decided to give those cats a second chance. The results are incredible and show what good cars those Jags could have been. Perfect ? Well, while you are at it, dear KWE guys, why not upgrading the brake system with ABS. And why not making a Series 3 Coupé, an XJC12 MkIII KWE3, thank you. The XJC certainly was the belle of the lot, so here is a collection of XJC pics.
Enjoy the TopGear’s James May driving a KWE XJS. (BTW, that looks like James May as well next to a XJC, doesn’t it?)



The video above does not work anylonger, please see links in this post for videos of the James May review of the KWE Jaguar XJS!

What you can do with a Jag XJS, if you don’t want it on the streets any longer is demonstrated in this clip by BBC TopGear.

Foto cc 2006 by storem & video c by BBC TopGear

Update Dec 2009: this article can now be found on http://www.automental.com/2006/11/vantage-vintage.html.  Including a working video link, as the one here had been removed on youtube.

Also I would like to invite you to read a new post on automental.com which is about the automental dream of a Lynx Eventer Jaguar XJS conversion upgraded by KWE.  Have fun