Talk:Jaguar Mark VIII

Image added
I've added an image of a Jaguar Mark VIII. However, I am not sure whether visually there is any way to differentiate the Mark VIII from the Mark IX. I think all the differences are under the skin. So this could be a Mark IX. Does anyone know if there is any way to tell the difference simply by looking at the things? Regards Charles01 (talk) 22:10, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The only way to distinguish between a Mk VII and a Mk IX are mechanical differences that aren't visible in a photo and a "Mk IX" badge on the boot (trunk) lid. Nov 5th, 2010. (Apols, can't sign, working through corporate proxy) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.168.79.1 (talk) 05:46, 5 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Searching by plate it gives year 1957 http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk --&mdash;  Typ932 T  05:53, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, that's encouraging. Thanks.   (I thought there was something about the very slight 'fold' in the windscreen too, but that's hard to explain.)  I need to get to know that website.  Regards Charles01 (talk) 06:15, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * @Charles01 The article says that the main external distinction between Mark VIII and its predecessor is the one-piece, curved windshield, which would make the car in the photo a Mark VII as it appears to have the driver's side half of the split window raised for airflow. Cjantsch (talk) 20:33, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes. Ans hmmmm.     If you expand the image, I think you will find it's not a split windscreen.   I think it's a one-piece windscreen but half of it reflects the light into the lens of the camera and the other half of it doesn't.  That follows from some combination of the way in which the car is positioned partially under  trees and the position in which the authorities have placed the sun.   Having launched this discussion more than fourteen years ago, I've no direct recall of what was on my mind at the time.   However, reading it through, I think that back then - when presumably I still rememebered photographing the car a day or a few days before and wondering what Mark of Jaguar it was - I also thought it was a one-piece windscreen (or windshield if you prefer American English.   Which is a circular route to writing that in 2022 I think I agree with what I wrote in 2008.   But of course, you are welcome to view the matter differently.   I claim no monopoly in terms of knowing what it was I photographed in 2008.   Be well. Charles01 (talk) 16:50, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

transmission slips into gear.on my 1956 jaguar xj6 sedan four door.
iI just got done rebuilding the trans. I think it might be the band adjustment. what do you recommend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.110.203.159 (talk) 14:55, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Australian Mobilgas Economy Run, which was an endurance rally of 16,250 km
The article refers to a 1958 "Australian Mobilgas Economy Run, which was an endurance rally of 16,250 km". Economy Runs are not endurance rallies. Is the article actually referring to the 1958 Mobilgas Trial which WAS an Australian "endurance rally"? GTHO (talk) 02:55, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

I have determined that there was a "Australian Mobilgas Economy Run" held in 1958 but that it was not "an endurance rally of 16,250 km". I have corrected the details in the article and have moved the "citation needed" template from the event details section of the entry to the Mark VIII class victory section, which remains unsupported. GTHO (talk) 08:46, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Ref added. GTHO (talk) 06:46, 20 November 2017 (UTC)