The Iconic Sale at the NEC Classic Motor Show 2024

+ buyer’s premium of 12.5% plus VAT (15% incl VAT) on the first £300,000 of the hammer and 10% plus VAT (12% incl VAT) thereafter 93 This car now offered for sale is a 1993 (1994 model) Jaguar XJS V12 6-litre ‘Insignia’ Coupé – which was produced as a standalone model in its own right and built by Jaguar’s Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) Department, one of the rarest of all modern-era Jaguar models. The vehicles produced under the ‘Insignia Program’ were only available via Special Order by Jaguar’s most prominent and wealthy customers; SVO allowed buyers to order a bespoke car, accommodating more personalisation, over and above the company’s standard range of luxury cars. In 1992, after 24 years, the hand-finished production of the iconic Daimler limousine (DS420) came to an end. Favoured by Royalty and dignitaries alike, each very special example was hand-built in Daimlers Limousine Shop by the finest of craftsmen and women, to the personal instructions of some of the world’s wealthiest and prestigious VIP customers. For Jaguar, this raised the problem of ‘what do you now do with a highly skilled workforce that have spent their working lives building some of the world’s finest bespoke vehicles by hand?. SVO’s idea was to transfer this highly skilled workforce, whose talents for building extremely high-quality bespoke cars had been acquired over many years, to them at Browns Lane in Coventry. The concept was simple, really; to offer, in the main, the company’s most wealthy and cherished customers unique and hand-finished examples of the company’s leading cars: the XJ40 and in far lesser numbers, the XJS. These unique new models were, most certainly, not to be classed as Limited Editions – far from it. Here was a range of vehicles in their own right. The Jaguar Insignia Program was launched at the NEC Motor Show in September 1992. The considered research is that, in total, just 300 Jaguar Insignias were produced by SVO, the vast majority were XJ40 Saloons, with only 64 being the XJS. Of the 64 XJS examples, in all configurations (i.e. Coupé/Convertible & 4-litre/V12 6-litre), 34 were right-hand drive for the home-market and just 30 were left-hand drive for the rest of the World. The split between Coupé and Convertible was roughly equal (so c.15 of each) but the split between the engine variants was more like 70/30, with the less desirable 4-litre taking the higher number. Therefore, the number of factory-built left-hand drive XJS V12 6-litre Insignia Coupés totalled only single figures and possibly as few as just six. The car here has covered a mere 8,700km (5,400 miles) and is in simply immaculate, commensurate, time warp original condition. It is as close as is possible to be to a ‘new car’ or how it left the Jaguar factory in Browns Lane Coventry some 30 years ago as you could hope to find. It is a one-off car that has incredible provenance and should be rightly considered for any Collection of fine motor cars. Full details of the car, its story and the context of how it came to be – and how it survived like it has – can be found on our website. An incredibly rare hand-built model, ordered new by a Royal dignitary and cosseted its whole life; one of only a handful of 6-litre V12 examples, with verifiable low mileage and the only one in museum quality condition. Best of breed in automotive form. Registration: N993 VFO Chassis No.: SAJ-JNAES4ER190522 Estimate: £50,000 - £60,000 Specialist: Joseph Watts Telephone No: 07779 082707 Lot 178 1994 Jaguar XJS V12 6.0-Litre ‘Insignia’ Coupé - 5,400 Miles More Details Lot 178 Bid On Lot 178