13 stunning photos from our new Jaguar Greatest Hits special

86 years of history in one magazine

Not content with producing one great magazine this month, we’ve found time to publish a second: Jaguar Greatest Hits.

A veritable feast for fans of the big cat, it brings together dozens of unmissable stories from the pages of Classic & Sports Car over the past decade.

So what's inside it? We've gathered together 13 of our favourite images from the special publication to give you a taster.

Jaguar SS100 Coupé

This breathtaking one-off SS100 was styled by William Lyons himself and first broke cover at the 1938 Earls Court Motor Show.

In the C&SC feature, Mick Walsh traces its history and marvels at its magnificent bodywork.

Jaguar XJR-9

Capturing speed in motorsport photography while still keeping the car pin-sharp is no easy task – just try it yourself sometime – but here Tony Baker does exactly that, and the result is a stunning shot worthy of any gallery.

Winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans is no easy task either – although you'll probably never get the chance to try it yourself – but this XJR-9 did exactly that in 1988, bringing the title to Jaguar for the first time in 31 years.

Andy Wallace was one of the three heroes to pilot the 7-litre monster that famous day, and here we reunite him with the car so he can relive his greatest victory.

Seven generations of Jaguar sports cars

Surely one of the best ever gatherings of sporting Jaguars, Alastair Clements collected together a septet of classics for this fascinating feature.

From the first car to bear the Jaguar name, the 1935 SS Jaguar 100, through the Alpine Rally-winning XK120 'NUB 120', the XKSS roadster, S1 E-type and XJ-SC V12 and ending with the more recent XK8 and XKR Convertibles, it's a potted history of the marque in 10 pages.

Jaguar D-type

As car-driver combinations go, you're not going to get much better than Jim Clark and a Jaguar D-type.

The car you see above is the very one raced by a young Clark in 1958; in it he became the first person to lap a British circuit at more than 100mph in a sports car. 

 Julian Balme was fortunate enough to take it for drive through the legend's Borders homeland. 

Jaguar XJ-S V12 / XJS 6-litre

Few Jaguars have faced such opprobrium as the XJ-S, tasked as it was with succeeding the E-type. But, 40 years on, we rather like it.

We also rather like this gorgeous photograph by C&SC's ace snapper Tony Baker, who captured the XJ-S V12 and its '90s offspring the XJS 6-litre winding their way through the Cotswolds for this 2015 story.

Jaguar E-type Series 3

Ah, the E-type – possibly the most iconic of all British cars, and certainly the one that best defines its era: the 1960s of The Beatles and the Stones, of Twiggy and Mary Quant. 

The original is still highly sought after, of course, but the V12-packing Series 3, which arrived in 1971, rarely gets much credit these days – and that's not fair at all, argues Malcolm Thorne.

Jaguar XK120

One of the most famous of all sporting Jaguars is the aluminium-bodied XK120 that won the Alpine Rally in 1950 and '51. This is not that car.

What it is, though, is a steel-bodied 1951 model that looks almost identical, competed alongside it in period and is arguably the next best thing. Here, Graeme Hurst takes it for a drive.

Jaguar MkX

Is this our favourite shot of them all? Quite possibly, with Tony Baker perfectly capturing the MkX's massive heft against a backdrop of brutalist '60s architecture. 

Jaguar XK150S 3.8

The rarest of all XK150s is the 'S' 3.8 roadster – so of course that's the one we wanted for this 2013 feature.

James Page was the man lucky enough to drive it, and we just love this shot of the evocative badge commemorating Jaguar's Le Mans successes.

Jaguar Mk1, Mk2, S-type and 420

This superb shot – again taken by Tony Baker – captures Jaguar's '60s saloons in all their stately glory.

Martin Buckley puts this quartet of high-performance big cats to the test, and agonises over which is his favourite.

Jaguar C-type

We've not mentioned the C-type yet – how have we not mentioned the C-type? Anywhere, here it is, and we just love this archive shot of the 1951 Le Mans team preparing to set off from Browns Lane.

Mick Walsh is the lucky man who gets to tell the story – and drive an original model.

Jaguar E-type 4 WPD

One of the greatest of all sporting E-types – and that's no small claim – is the one known as '4 WPD'. 

The third production E-type ever, it was rebuilt in super-lightweight form and was raced with notable success by a who's-who of '60s motorsport – including Graham Hill, Roy Salvadori and Jackie Stewart. To that list we can now add C&SC's James Page.

Jaguar E-types CUT 7 and CUT 8

These beautiful E-types are the work of Dick Protheroe – a Leicestershire garage owner with a fascinating background who reworked and then raced the cars extensively and with plenty of success,

Julian Balme tells their story – and that of the man behind them. 

And there's more...

There's masses of good stuff inside our Jaguar Greatest Hits special, then – but you don't know the half of it.

In fact that's literally true, because it contains another 13 features that we've not yet mentioned. 

For instance, you'll find an account of our vaguely terrifying time inside a Lister MkIII, our look back at the pre-Jaguar Swift and SS1 models, our drives in a Mk2 and a MkVII and a 3 1/2-litre, our feature on the XJ220, more E-type love-ins, and our brilliant recreation of the time a D-type took on a Kurtis at Monza in The Race of Two Worlds.

That's not 13 yet, is it? Well if you want to see what else is inside, you'll have to buy it.

It's onsale now, priced £8, from all good newsagents, and is worth every penny. You can also order it online from https://magsdirect.co.uk/magazine/cscjag/, where it will cost you £10 including postage.