Jaguar Mark 2

jaguar
Mark 2
Production period:	1959-1969
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	limousine
Engines:	Petrol engines : 2.5-3.8 liters (89-160 kW)
Length:	4572 mm
Width:	1702 mm
Height:	1473 mm
Wheelbase :	2718 mm
Empty weight :	1440 kg
Previous model	Jaguar Mark I.

The Jaguar Mark 2 was a four-door sporty sedan in the upper middle class , which the British automobile manufacturer Jaguar brought out in 1959 as the successor to the Jaguar 2.4 liter and 3.4 liter models .

The car was known for. B. through films from the sixties as well as through Thomas Nightingale from the Rivers of London series .

History and technology

The body received some improvements and retouching, especially the window areas were enlarged. Disc brakes on all four wheels were standard from now on. Compared to its predecessor, the Mark 2 received a wider track . The Jaguar Mark 2 2.4 with 2483 cc displacement now had 120 bhp , the 3.4 continued to have 210 bhp and the newly added 3.8 with 3781 cc displacement 220 bhp. The rear wheels were driven via a four-speed gearbox with center shift, optionally with overdrive or Borg-Warner 35 automatic gearbox. The maximum speed was 160/190/200 km / h with manual transmission. This made the Mark 2, version 3.8, the fastest four-door production car of its time until 1964.

In May 1960, the Daimler Motor Company was taken over by Jaguar. The Daimler 250 V8 , based on the Jaguar Mark 2 , was then produced from October 1962 to mid-1969 . The Daimler version, however, received the engine of the Daimler SP250 , an interior with different details and the ribbed radiator grille typical of Daimler .

From autumn 1967 the models were named Jaguar 240 and 340 . The standard equipment of these vehicles was less lavish than before. In addition to the Jaguar 340 with a 3.4-liter engine, there were also individual items as the 340 3.8 with the larger 3.8-liter engine. The engine of the 2.4 with the new, more powerful straight-port cylinder head came to 133 bhp. The distinguishing feature of the 240 and 340 models were narrower bumpers. For the USA there were still a few copies of the 340 with wider bumpers. Up to 1967 25,173 of the 2.4 liter, 28,663 of the 3.4 liter and 30,140 of the 3.8 liter were built, plus 4446 copies of the 240, 2788 copies of the 340 (210 bhp) and 12 vehicles with the 3.8 liter engine (220 bhp) .

There is no direct successor to the Jaguar Mark 2, as Jaguar reduced the sedan range to a basic model with the introduction of the Jaguar XJ . As a luxury class model, the XJ was positioned higher than the Mark 2 and is therefore more of a successor to the Jaguar 420G or the first S-Type and the (small) 420 . Jaguar only returned to the upper middle class in 1999 with the new S-Type . The look of this modern S-Type was clearly based on the original S-Type and thus a good deal on the Mark 2.

gallery

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  Jaguar Mk 2

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  Jaguar Mk 2 (1961)

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  Jaguar MK 2, built in 1962, at the 1986 Oldtimer Grand Prix on the Nürburgring

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  Jaguar Mark 2, cockpit

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  Jaguar Mark 2 Automatic, cockpit

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  Jaguar Mark 2 front view

literature

• Schrader, Halwart: Jaguar type compass - passenger cars since 1931, Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart (2001), ISBN 3-613-02106-4
• Stertkamp, ​​Heiner: Jaguar - the complete chronicle from 1922 to today, 2nd edition, Heel-Verlag, (2006) ISBN 3-89880-337-6

Web links

Commons : Jaguar Mark 2  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A. Polaschek: Forever. In Oldtimer Praxis , issue 12/2017, pp. 6–11.