Fascinating Trivia to Impress Your Jaguar Technician
Here’s some interesting Jaguar trivia to impress your mechanic. The first Jaguar was actually a motorcycle sidecar, since the company first began as a motorcycle sidecar company in 1922. It launched as the Swallow Sidecar Company, which first sold SS Jaguar cars in 1935. The company dropped the SS in the 1940s when the letters SS became nefariously synonymous with the Nazis. Jaguar was actually owned by Ford from 1990 to 2008. Steve McQueen drove the Jaguar XKSS, one of only 16 built. His model is currently in the collection of Jay Leno. Jaguar released its first electric vehicle in 2016 with the I-PACE, at the Los Angeles motor Show.