Talk:Jaguar Mark IX

Transmission?
What kind of transmission options did the Mark IX have? --Ragemanchoo (talk) 00:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * It looks as though it had a manual four speed box with the option of overdrive.  A three speed automatic was also available.  That's from German wiki, but it's also consistent with what I'd thought and I can source it from an outside reference book (eg Alle Autos der 50er jahre von Roger Gloor published by Motorbuch Verlag of Stuttgart).   However, I would GUESS that in the US the Mk IX would have been offered with the three speed automatic as standard, POSSIBLY with the four speed manul as a no-cost option:  that's what the market would have xpected, and Jaguar were very focused on export markets - expecially the US - at this time.   I guess if you are in the US you can check this to contemporary copies of Car & Driver or equivalent more easily than I....?   So which was the standard transmission option probably depends on where you live(d).   Regards Charles01 (talk) 07:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Price info
The following passage was excised due to its evident spurious nature:

"The test car cost £12162 including taxes of £721. "

Though referenced (albeit impossible to verify online) these figures seem spurious as they are over twice what a more upscale Rolls-Royce of the era cost (as cited at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Cloud}, figures which fall in line with conversion to late 1950s US dollars as well. Wikiuser100 (talk) 07:55, 20 March 2010 (UTC)


 * cf also 1958 prices of £5694 for Silver Cloud and £5401 for the top of the line Mercedes-Benz 300d cited in Sportscar Magazine. Wikiuser100 (talk) 12:02, 21 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I have checked back on the source document. The price was £2162. Apologies for the typo. Malcolma (talk) 18:37, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Jaguar MK IX Estate.
The MK IX Estate has existed for quite a while and there's a few images online including a banger edition of it. From an old archive (apparently 10 were made but 7 burnt in the factory fire that Jaguar had and 1 got turned into a banger, 1 is in a museum and 1 got lost in the 1970s.) <-- Needs Confirming. Searching "Jaguar MK9 Estate" will show one being auctioned and one being a banger racer. Could do with a look around for any information on it. 1960 Jaguar MK9 Estate (talk) 00:40, 19 March 2023 (UTC)