Jul 22, 2016 · This new sports car would ride on the XJ40 sedan platform, with the coupe codenamed XJ41 and convertible XJ42.

Although original idea for the Jaguar XJ41/XJ42 was to be powered by the AJ6 engine, TWR themselves did produce one Aston Martin DB7 V12 Prototype with a 475 hp 6.4-litre Jaguar V12 and while about two DB7s were said to have fitted with a detuned 6.3-litre Aston Martin V8 (see DB7 V8 by Works Service and DB7 V8 GT1 for Le Mans).

Jul 12, 2023 · Ian Callum’s redesigned XJ41 became Aston Martin’s new DB7. Revealed at the Geneva show in 1993, the Aston Martin DB7 received a rapturous reception. The complicated bloodline of the DB7 could be traced right back to a car intended to replace the legendary E-Type.

Using the remnants of the stillborn Jaguar XJ41/42 project, from 1990 and with the assistance of TWR, a new affordable Aston Martin took shape under the codename NPX. It was launched at the 1993 Geneva Salon, and thanks to styling from Keith Helfet and …

Sep 15, 2022 · Known as XJ41/42 within the company, work proceeded alongside the extensively delayed successor to the XJ6 Series III, the XJ40. The XJ41/42, in coupé and cabriolet form, would have complimented the new XJ6 well.

May 2, 2013 · As the XJ-S failed to emulate the E-Type’s success, in 1980 Jaguar started developing the F-Type, codenamed XJ41 (coupe) and XJ42 (roadster). The F-Type was supposed to use the underpinnings of...

Without the DB7 there would be no XK8, but the XJ41 is the project that spawned the pair via a design great and a race-team hero. Before the Jaguar XK8 came the original ‘F-type’: the XJ41 concept and the XJ42 coupé sister.

We review the history of the Jaguar XJ41 and XJ42, Jaguar's luxury coupes that, with the arrival of Ford, ended up giving life to the Aston Martin DB7.

Jan 31, 2017 · In the meantime Jaguar had itself been struggling to replace the XJS, and had got a brand new car codenamed XJ41 to the point of production before Ford bought the company, took one look at the overweight, over budget and over time project and killed it stone dead.

Known internally as the XX project, the DB7 would use many of Jaguar resources and parts and had financial backing from the Ford Motor Company, owner of Aston Martin from 1988 to 2007. Jaguar had been working on a replacement for the aging XJS, codenamed the XJ41/42.