{"product_id":"jaguar-xjs-isbn-9781785005831","title":"Jaguar XJ-S","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Taylor remembers very well the disappointment among his pretrol-head friends when the XJ-S was announced in 1975. It was not a replacement for the legendary E-type; its colours were uninspired; and its interior was drab. All credit, then, to those people at Jaguar who truly believed in the car and, over a period of nearly 20 years, turned the ugly duckling into a swan. From the moment the XJ-S HE arrived in 1981, there seemed to be renewed hope, and from then on, the car went from strength to strength to become the much-admirred grand tourer it always should have been. The book contains a timeline of the key events in the history of the XJ-S and an overview of the evolution of the XJS from the XJ27 prototype. There are Appendices covering identification\/serial numbers, UK showroom prices through the years and sales in the US by year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Crowood Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44896676249829,"sku":"NP9781785005831","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_7ff94118-7fcb-415d-8081-8c40dbe46be6.jpg?v=1773103068","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/jaguar-xjs-isbn-9781785005831","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}