Click on any Logo Facts & Figures A few days ago someone questioned my build figures which suggested they may be incorrect, when I enquired where he had obtained his figure from he explained they were from the XJS parts manual JHM 6 Page if for those who have a copy look, you will that it says -----------8 6.6 where it should be 6.6 & V which obviously affects the grand totals.6 &. I then realised that they were the figures I had supplied many years ago prior to locating the two V s Body Nos V0000 & V0000, Below the earliest surviving.6 &. s belonging to of our members..6 Body # Y0000 &. Body # V00006 Jaguar XJ-S Cabriolet Build Numbers & some notable dates Total number of XJS Cabriolets built 0 Total number of.6 Cabriolets built 48 - including 06 Auto s Total number of V Cabriolets built 86 First.6 built in October 8 (VIN: 0806 - Body No; Y0000) Indigo Blue First V built in September 8 (VIN: - Body No; V0000) Tudor White Last.6 built in September 87 (VIN: 44 - Body No; Y0047) Arctic Blue Last V built on 7th June 88 (VIN: 4868 - Body No; V00476) Crimson
Click on logo NOTE. Total Build figures not Production Figures as quoted by some sources..6 Manual: 04 -.6 Automatic: 06 - Total.6: 48. Automatic. 86 Overall Total: 0 Figures from original build sheets as th February 0 Year 8 8 84 8 86 87 88 Total.6 6 4 6 0 48. 0 7 70 6 6 86 Total 6 06 0 77 7 6 0 One on line at Browns Lane
Jaguar XJ-S Cabriolet Market Destination DESPATCHED TO ABU DHABI ANDORA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BAHAMAS BAHRAIN BELGIUM CANADA DENMARK DUBAI FRANCE GERMANY GIBRALTAR GUERNSEY HOLLAND HONG KONG ITALY JAGUAR CARS JAPAN JERSEY KUWAIT LAS PALMAS LUXEMBURG NEW ZEALAND NORTH AMERICA NORWAY OMAN PANAMA PARAGUAY PORTUGAL QATAR SAUDI ARABIA SINGAPORE S. AFRICA SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TAIWAN TURKEY UNITED KINGDOM TOTAL NUMBER 8 8 8 7 4 40 08 8 8 4 77 0 The actual number of Cabriolets built to UK Spec was 4.However several cars never reached their intended destination, including some 6 US spec cars that were converted from LHD to RHD all easily recognisable
Whilst trying to locate the last missing 00 Cabriolets we came across a dusty old box XJS Body sheets so a quick search, circa 7 days looking for anything with V or Y the missing Vins were located & established that the following body # s were never assigned, so there was original going to be,06 Cabriolets in total. Body numbers exceeded VIN's by.6 body number not used.6 body number not used.6 body number not used V006 V000 V00 V00 V00 V006 V00 V006 V007 V00 V0064 V006 V0066 V006 V0040 V00406 V00407 V0046 V00464 V00488 Y000 Y006 Y006 For those of you who have not located your body # it is behind the rear bumper right hand side. Inboard of the mounting strut on a small metal tag riveted to the car. There is also a number on the left had side which is referred to as the Castle Bromwich body number.
Jaguar XJ-S Cabriolet Original Colours The XJ-SC was produced in a total of 8 colours. Here is the definitive list, and how many of each was built. as @ /0/0 Colour Alpine Green Antelope Arctic Blue Bordeaux Red Cirrus Grey Clarendon Blue Claret Cobalt Blue Coronet Gold Cranberry Crimson Curlew Dorchester Grey Glacier White Grenadier Red Indigo Jaguar Racing Green Jet Black Moorland Green Nimbus Racing Green Regent Grey Rhodium Silver Sage Green Sapphire Blue (only Fiona s) Satin Beige Sebring Red Signal Red Silver Birch Silver Sand Solent Blue Sovereign Gold Steel Talisman Silver Tudor White Tungsten Westminster Blue Windsor Blue Total number of Cabriolets No. produced in this colour 4 6 6 4 0 7 7 8 7 00 4 7 08 8 0 67 4 88 0 0 7 6 66 47 0 I hope some of you may find the information useful I can assure you that to the best of my ability all the information is correct as @ /0/0 some cars have had colour changes, above is as they left Browns Lane, with one known exception. Vin 777 which has a Sebring Red paint code but was painted in an unknown colour?.