Talk:Jaguar Mark X

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Clarification; The article states that the Jaguar Mk X long held the record as the widest production Jaguar ever built. I may be wrong, but I believe that it is still the widest ever production Jaguar, as well as the widest production car ever built in the UK. The article also states that the Mk X was the last Jaguar with the proper wooden dashboard and the XJ dash was plastic with wooden fillets. This may be true of most XJ's but the series 1 did have the full burr walnut dash with trademark row of centralised dials & switches. Later dashboards fell foul to the laws of ergonomics. C Williams - Llantrisant 81.78.67.167 (talk) 10:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

As far as I can see your thoughts deserve to be noticed and reacted to by someone who knows the answers (or has access to appropriate books / sources). But I think they belong on the discussion page rather than on the 'article' itself: so I moved them there. Anyone tracking the Jaguar Mark X article will be notified of your new message, and with any luck someone knows enough to enter any necessary corrections or elaboration to the entry.

At risk of being tediously pedantic, I cannot decide whether your final beef is with the laws of ergonomics or of economics. I guess it could be either. Or both...Regards Charles01 (talk) 11:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry Charles my typo, 'eronomics' meant ergonomics obviously as I'm sure that economically it would have been most cost effective to leave it unchanged. Chris Glynneath 212.32.80.88 (talk) 14:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The Jaguar XJ220 was wider. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.153.4.126 (talk) 20:32, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Our nameless contributor's statement here is confirmed by German wiki which gives the width of the JJ220 as 2 meters. That's a suspiciously round number (and a lot of it appears to be accounted for by the door mirrors) but it's believable and I don't know a better figure.... The German article on the XJ220 cites plausible sources, though the dimensions itself are not footnoted to a source. (German wiki 'automobile entries' tend not yet to feature footnote based sourcing to the extent of those appearing in the more intensively edited English language articles.) It would be useful if that could be done (ideally here and in German wiki). I think I will (probably later today) be able to dig out and enter here a source for the width of the Jaguar Mark X.

Regards Charles01 (talk) 05:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

It was my understanding that the Mk X/420G was the widest UK car ever built (up until the arrival of the XJ220), but this article neither confirms or contradicts that. The statement "until the arrival in 1992 of the low-slung XJ220, the Mark X stood as one of the widest production Jaguars ever built." bears no scrutiny. 92.21.5.38 (talk) 08:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Apologies, the preceding comments weren't visible to me until after I made my own post.

Regards, Peter 92.21.5.38 (talk) 08:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)