Talk:Jaguar XK140

Gross horsepower
Re the comment on Jaguar's optimistic power output specifications, Jaguar's practice (at least during the '50s and '60s) was to state "gross" horsepower, i.e. power at the flywheel with no ancillaries (fan, alternator, power steering, gearbox, transmission etc.) driven and with non-standard exhausts, in accordance with US practice. Otherwise UK cars appeared under-powered on paper in the US, compared with US cars. See Horsepower.

UK car magazines joked that American horses must be very small, and suggested that if US engines did not give the required power output the inspectors re-tuned the dynamometers, rather than the engines!

GilesW (talk) 00:20, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

O T S
It says here on page 219A of Standard Catalog of Jaguar by John Gunnell published 2007 Krause Publications ISBN 9780896895959 the Roadster (or OTS for Other Than Sedan) was the basic. . . Does anyone else know that?

From Philip Porter, Original Jaguar XK: The Restorer's Guide page 1919, St Paul MN, Motorbooks International 2003 Abbreviations and Explanations
 * OTS Open Two Seater (also known, particularly in the USA, as the Roadster). FHC Fixed Head Coupé (also known in the USA as the Sports Coupé), DHC Drophead Coupé (also known in the USA as the Convertible)
 * The word open refers to OTS and DHC collectively; the word coupé refers to FHC and DHC collectively Eddaido (talk) 10:33, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Production
Any objections to eliminating the "Production" section? The numbers in its table do not cite a reference, and appear to be completely out of whack with other sources. To wit: http://www.xk140.nl/wordpress/?cat=11 — Preceding unsigned comment added by XMattingly (talk • contribs) 15:54, 20 March 2020 (UTC)


 * There's not a lot of citations on this article. Yes, please leave it, I've added some rough equivalents from their Heritage site and being "real world" stuff there are differences. If you can find a reliable source for the cars produced please use and cite it. Eddaido (talk) 22:43, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Acceleration times
Acceleration times from 0–60 mph (97 km/h) were 8.4 seconds, 9.1 seconds and 9.1 seconds respectively.

Respectively to what? Where they testing the three different types of XK or did they do three attempts? It doesn't appear to specify.

64.222.153.246 (talk) 05:15, 17 January 2021 (UTC)