The JaguarForumsUK Great Trivia Quiz

What is the current and official name of the Jaguar company?

Every car manufacturer registers patents to protect everything that they design or create, or even plan to in the future. Jaguar cars Ltd registered how many patents in just 2009?

The same engine as was used in the MG Metro 6R4 Rally Car found it's way into one model of Jaguar, with Jaguar refinements of course - it was a 3.5l twin turbo V6. Which Jaguar model did it appear in?

When the X350 generation of the Jaguar XJ came out it had a new feature that made it very different to it's predecessors - what was that feature?

Jaguar produced a generation of Jaguar models named '-Type' and each model had a different letter in front of the '-Type'. For example one model was the 'X-Type'.

Please select all the '-Type' models that were manufactured by Jaguar from the list below - noting that you get one point for each one correctly selected, and lose one point for each incorrect selection.....

In 1996 the Jaguar XK8 was up against the Aston Martin DB7. The Jaguar was fractionally slower than the DB7, and maybe not quite as exclusive but it more than made up for this by being significantly cheaper.. but how much cheaper?

The first car that they (Lyons and Walmsley) built was based on an Austin 7 and had two tone paint. Why did they decide to move from a single colour to two tone?

In what year did the Browns fire destroy all but 16 XKSS cars that were in production?

How did Jaguar F-Pace get the company into the Guinness Book of Records?

The Austin 7 Swallow cost £175, which was very competitively priced - but how much more would you have had to pay at the time to get a version of it with a removable roof?

When was the XK120 launched? 

Jaguars are known for the hood ornament - the Jaguar leaper.
In what year was it removed as a standard feature, meaning you had to purchase it as an extra if you still wanted it?

When Jaguar was owned by British Leyland they had to resort to various tactics to ensure Jaguars remained as Jaguar as possible. What was one of the tricks they did?

The supercharged version of the Jaguar AJ16 engine , as used in the Jaguar XJR was used by another car manufacturer. Which car manufacturer?

In the 1980s Jaguar streamlined all it's systems and methods helping it to improve not just build quality but also factor in efficiencies in their build process. As a part of this they achieved a massive reduction in the number of man hours needed to build the then current Jaguar XJ. They managed to reduce the man hours from 700 to what?

Jaguar has used a few sales slogans over the years. Which one of these was NOT used by Jaguar?  

When did SS Cars change it's name to Jaguar Cars?

In 1951 Jaguar managed to move into the huge Browns Lane Factory site. They struck a deal with the British M.O.D. in order to do this. What did they agree to produce alongside Jaguars? 

In what year did Jaguar drop the 240/340, S-Type, 420 & 420G models for just one new model - the XJ6?

Recently TATA purchased Jaguar from Ford. Can you remember in what year they did this?