Jaguar XK8 & XKR Performance Portfolio 1996-2005

Jaguar's E-type was so good that designing and developing a successor was always going to be difficult.  The XK8, released in 1996, brought renewed credibility to Jaguar Cars.  It looked like a Jaguar should - sleek, low with sensuous carves in all the right places.  Three years later Jaguar announced the XKR, a supercharged and honed-and-tightened version of the XK8.  Various special XKs were built during its long production life and it had a 'sister' car in the lovely Aston Martin DB7 that took features from both it and the XJ-S.  The XK8 remained in production until 2005 when it was replaced by the next generation that borrowed heavily from it.