Now, to be clear on the criteria here, the redesigns must carry the same nameplate, so no Kia Optima to K5 ...The Jaguar XJ had basically looked the same for 41 years through multiple generations, and even if the last was a thoroughly modern, aluminum-intensive effort, no one could really tell because of the ye olde wrapper.
Indeed, so ashamed was the company of the 220 that when it finally produced a supercar worthy of its powertrain — the stillborn C-X75 — Jag nixed the project because it thought, using the XJ’s abject failure as its yardstick, that the rich would once again see no panache in the Jaguar badge.
After just three years the car was dropped as simply more trouble than it was worth.Jaguar XJ-S, 1975 ...The Jaguar XJ-S was a phenomenal beast - and one that would eat away at your bank account in no time ... things to fret over than the fate of the XJ-S.Reliant ScimitarGTE, 1976.