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13 unusual facts about Jaguar cars


Commissions and Fees

At a partners meeting, Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) says Jaguar would like to pay SCDP via a fee structure instead of straight commission.

E. Digby Baltzell

He dedicated one of his books to "all my undergraduate friends at the University of Pennsylvania, many of them grandsons of immigrants to the urban frontier, who, in spite of their possessing too many Jaguars and mink-coated mothers, have constantly been renewed by faith in the American Dream of unlimited opportunity".

Elmdon, West Midlands

Plans for a rail link from the factory to the West Coast Mainline were scrapped when Ford sold Land Rover and Jaguar.

Fulvio Bonavia

Though he has shot ad campaigns for a wide range of international clients, such as Adidas, Heineken, Swatch, Amnesty International, and Alitalia, he is best known for his campaigns for automotive companies including Jaguar, BMW, Saab, Alfa Romeo, Daimler-Chrysler, and Audi.

Great Anatolia Party

These images referred to drummer Asım Ekren, who was the son-in-law of the ANAP leader Turgut Özal, while the jaguar was a reference to his Jaguar car, a gift from businessman Zeki Berberoğlu.

Hans Gissinger

Gissinger has also photographed for worldwide brands such as Jaguar, Condé Nast, Donna Karan, Nike, Ebel, Cartier, Ruinart Champagne, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Neiman Marcus, and Lincoln Mercury.

Johnny K. Larsson

He specialised in the harmonization of design guidelines, requirements and quality assurance for joining methods with Renault Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, Land Rover and Jaguar Cars.

Onyanko Club

#Mako Shiraishi (member when the group broke up, member of Nyangirasu, began working for Jaguar Japan after graduation, mother of four children)

Richard B. Shapiro

On August 18, 2009 Shapiro pleaded "no contest" to a misdemeanour charge of vandalism in connection with the key-scratching of the 2008 Jaguar sedan owned by Jerry Jamgotchian, a horse-owner who was one of Shapiro's harshest critics during his time on the board.

Signal 30

Following a drunken celebration at a bar with other expatriates over England's 1966 World Cup victory, Lane excitedly tells the other SCDP partners that he has arranged a lunch meeting with a fellow Englishman he met at the bar, Edwin Baker, over possible representation for Jaguar Cars in America.

SS Jaguar

SS Jaguar - early Jaguar cars were known as SS Jaguars, from the Swallow Sidecar Company which built them.

Stefan Szczesny

In 2011, Szczesny began to collaborate with the car company Jaguar, as the company's brand ambassador.

Stephen Flemmi

He bought Deborah Hussey a Jaguar when she turned sixteen, and later he set her up in an apartment in the Back Bay, even as he continued living with her mother in Milton.


1988 Formula One season

After racing in Hungary against doctors orders, Nigel Mansell was forced to miss the Belgian Grand Prix through illness and was replaced by Martin Brundle, who after four years in F1 was driving for the TWR Jaguar team in the 1988 World Sportscar Championship.

2009 FIA GT3 European Championship season

The manufacturers of Ascari, Dodge, Jaguar, Lamborghini, and Morgan will not be eligible for the Manufacturers Cup due to not supplying the minimum of four cars required to enter the Cup.

Alpine Rally

The Coupe d'Argent was awarded to five drivers; Maurice Gatsonides (1956), driving for Jaguar and Triumph, René Trautmann of Citroën (1963), Donald Morley of Austin-Healey (1964), Paddy Hopkirk (1965), who drove for Triumph, Sunbeam and Mini-Cooper, and Jean Rolland of Alfa Romeo (1966).

American Association of Advertising Agencies

In Mad Men S5.e12, "Commissions and Fees", Lane Pryce is offered an unelected chairmanship of the organization's fiscal control committee after SCDP wins the Jaguar Cars account.

City Airline

On 10 September 2001, it started its own regional services from Gothenburg, much of which correspond to the needs of large companies based in Gothenburg, most notably Volvo Cars with its links to Birmingham (Jaguar Cars), Volvo Trucks with links to Lyon (Renault Trucks) and AstraZeneca with links to Manchester Airport.

Empty World

The death of the girl (and earlier her 4 year old brother) leaves Neil the sole survivor of Winchelsea, and after deciding that Winchelsea is becoming dangerous - due in part to packs of wild dogs - he leaves for London, taking first a manual Mini which he has difficulty driving, followed by an automatic Jaguar.

Ferrari Monza

This despite the fact that Jaguar's new D-Type took the crown at the newly restricted Le Mans and Maserati's 300 S took the 1000km Nürburgring race.

Irish Aluminium Company

It produces components from some of Europe's best-known car manufacturers, including Audi, BMW, Ford, Seat, Volkswagen, Volvo and Jaguar.

Lane Pryce

He wasn't particularly keen on football, though he successfully used an outing to the pub for the 1966 World Cup Final to set up a potential SCDP account with Jaguar.

Paul S. Allen

He is a fan of Jaguar sports cars, The Beatles,Sheffield Wednesday soccer team and is a keeper of Border Collies.

Shooting-brake

In 1999, Popular Mechanics presented a 2001 Jaguar five-door wagon variant of its S-Type, saying the term shooting-brake was interchangeable with station wagon.

The Ploughman's Lunch

James, Jeremy and Susan have all been given the task of covering the 1982 Conservative Party conference so they travel down to Brighton together in James' Jaguar.

William Walmsley

The name "Jaguar" appeared as "SS Jaguar" in 1935 after Walmsley had left the company and later after World War II the company was renamed as Jaguar Cars to avoid unfavourable connotations of the SS initials of the Nazi Party.

ZF 4HP22 transmission

Introduced in 1980, it was produced through 2003, and has been used in a variety of cars from BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Maserati, Peugeot, and Volvo.