Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar XKSS - Jay Leno's Garage 

Exactly! It's a trap.

Ditto...all of us with a love for cars living vicariously through Jay!

Amen

For a car guy, without a doubt, the best show on RU-vid.

I went from imperial to nash,hornet,davis three wheel then here. I'm getting to worked up this late at night. I'll have to come back tomorrow. I'm on the east coast and have a sudden urge to get on my connie 14 and see steve's jag on the west coast.

Kinda like eating Texas BBQ, but he does seem to be savoring in drive.

The smile Jay has right at the start of the drive is priceless. Actually the green reminds me of a time in the 70's, As a child I was into Playboy magazine (I didn't care for the ladies at the time) looking at the stereo equipment and especially the Jaguars of the time. I also remember trying to show my grandma the Jaguar that was hot in the mid 70's but wouldn't you know it the darn centerfold fell out and ruined the whole presentation. Good times Thank you Jay for sharing this auto

Bob Proxmire A grin from ear to ear...And Jay has a big head.+1000 likes.

***** hahaha :-D

I'm not surprised, that's one hell of a classic, those jaguars can sell for millions at auctions I believe. Great pickup by jay!

Most beautiful car in automobile history in my opinion.

True. Like a real masterpiece, that car is so beautiful that you instantly think, "This is beautiful" even if you know nothing about this car or any car. It's like listening to Beethoven's 9th symphony or trudging through a museum and looking up at a van Gogh: No training or schooling is required. It's beautiful. You might not understand why it's beautiful, but you *KNOW* it's beautiful.

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Look at Morgan cars, they make old fashion typed cars

***** Morgan's are a completely different style though...

DtRockstar1 They can; Jaguar is hand building the remaining 9 cars that were destroyed in the fire. Better act quickly, only 9 cars, and they're being sold at a million pounds per!

Sam Moon what are you on about?

He is talking about the famed lightweight E Type, built primarily for racing, but sold to the public. Jaguar had a fire at Browns Lane and production was halted, but now they are building the last 12 that never got built, all hand made and selling for upwards of one million pounds, and as far as I know, they ( Jaguar Heritage) have taken deposits on all 12.

Absolutely he's doing it for all the right reasons. Beautiful vechiles.

I apreciate what you said about Jay Leno, he seems to be a very real, down to earth kind of guy.

+AJaXX JaM From what I've heard, he genuinely is.

+Dan Nork And He has a good sence of humor? ~( : -})={>--- ]

And he has a fantastic collection of denim shirts and jeans! ...Or is it just one denim shirt and jeans?

And 0to 60 in 4.2 seconds. That's f40 fast

@@carlosoruna7174 is this car a 56 or 66???!

I bet Steve did it.

+Orion Slaver Maybe it has some meaning :) cause otherwise Im baffled :))

Cosplay?

Not sure why that guy was even on the show. Seemed to be mostly parroting things about the car that he had heard elsewhere. Jay Leno's mechanic would have been a much better "guest" for this episode.

Orion Slaver 😂

Idiot comment. We, at least, French Canadian in Québec, dont wear white socks out of the gym ! So corny! We don't buy our cloths at Walmart! BUT, I find it cool from Jay to wear whatever he feels comfy ! And as he says, hey, I put my money in significant cars, not in clothing! Just have to love the guy!!

winchuni22 here kitty kitty

Yes, it sounds good but it would sound a lot better if the clutch wasn't slipping.

You get familiar with RHD car quite quickly, it isn't a problem.

It's natural and best to steer with the right.

Hes used to it

Yeah, getting used to the shift lever on the other side is easy. The diabolical part is when the turn signal and windshield wiper stalks are swapped over!

He’s left handed

Even the rich can only drive one vehicle at a time! This gem Makes A.C. Bristol cobra 429 Look like a coffin on wheels.

Foxtrot Oscar I

watched again..for the 5th time...Jay is just in heaven....he loooooves this car...me too.

Stop that pigeon!

I loved the Wackey Racers!

It's missing the umbrella...

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ha-yelp, ha-yelp.

@@Lensman864 And ugly, giant, malformed atrocities called "Pickup Trucks" purchased by (mostly) men trying to compensate.

design is awesome.. electronics... well wishfull

@@berniepragle948 Or going to work

Indeed; the King of Cool😊

Brian Weir Oh my god, is he dead?When did he die? I haven't been watching the news lately. *_(just pulling your leg..)_* 😉

To me, he will always be the Cincinnati Kid. Great movie, great actor, great man.

If he hadn’t removed asbestos while in the service he might still be alive today. Bad stuff that asbestos.

good call but cvk walks talks shits breaths hyper cars and goes to bed dreaming of ways to make them more insane :)

Jay doesnt necessarily like supercars. He doesnt see the purpose in going 200+ mph, Jay is old school

***** well he loves his mclaren f1 and his p1 so i am pretty sure he likes some supercars

***** Are you MHMR?

lol that doesnt even come close to the history and the bad ass that comes with this car. 180 mph in 1954 ? all the money and technology in the world cant buy you balls like that my friend. Did you see the smile on his face ?

Hey It's Me Yeah seriously... Its a treasure of automotive history being driven by a treasure of entertainment history.

Rest in peace, Steve McQueen.

+Mateo Rodriguez The driver of the black Charger in Bullitt...

+CEOkiller Naaaa he would totally be into this car. Now the bedwetter riding with him might have given a thumbs down.... lol.

Mateo Rodriguez My guess is the British losers who got offended at how Jay pronounced "Jaguar". British guys are just upset that James Bond is the last bastion of masculinity left in the U.K....

My '52 120 had a283 in it had no trouble cruising 100+ up I-5 trying to get it to stop was always interesting.

Jag only built the XKSS in the first place to use up some old build D ypes. The XK 120 to 150 were being cranked out on a production line and selling fine, and certainly being a stamped out steel shell, much cheaper to build than the XKSS. If it hadn't been for the fire, they would I'm sure have built a lot more than the planned 25. Nasty clutch slip!

Hello Robert, You ask why Jaguar didn't build the XKSS. betacam235 covered part of it, but one needs to keep in mind that in 1957 Jaguar was 1) still a small car company 2) they, like the rest of the UK, were still recovering from WWII, and 3) they were just beginning to earn their bread and butter from cars like the Mk I; they were still feeling and figuring out the export market. To illustrate, Sir William Lyons, gifted as a designer and a man who brought affordable performance cars to production for incomprehensible prices, almost chose Not to build the E Type / XKE. That car brought Jaguar to the forefront of motoring, along with the D Type's competition successes at Le Mans, and insured the survival of Jaguar Motor Cars. They expected to produce a thousand E Types or so, and production slightly exceeded 72,000 units and spanned 14 years! My point is that Jaguar's marketing judgement was based upon a smaller margin of financial success --at a risk of a very considerably greater portion of the company's worth than, say General Motors deciding whether or not to build the Metro ( Not comparable to the XKSS, but worthy as a comparison because they were both niche cars ).

the XKSS would still be ,speed wise, a competitive car in today's market. for a small company, jaguar spread itself to thin by venturing out in the competitive saloon car market which proved to be very costly. had they remained specialized in a narrow market of very fast sports cars, Jaguar would have remained the marque to beat for many years. plus their operation cost would have shrunk dramatically, allowing for more capital investment for development into a singular product.

I think because Matt came off as a pompous know-it-all, but really didn't know what he was talking about. Probably another reason why he called Bernard over to explain the more technical bits.

I often wonder if Jay ever reads these but if he does it's what I would of said too the smile on his face puts a smile on mine and what a treat it would to see his collection .👍

Not quite!

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Your getting old. With less of to tomorrow to look forward to and more of yesterday to look back to you will naturally think things were better 'back in the day' including your aesthetic tastes.

djphineart We are all getting old... My aesthetic tastes were better back in the day? ... I wasn't even alive 'back in the day', Im just jealous of those who were!

Pulsonar I believe you need to look at the 2015 jaguar f type coupe though I am a big fan of the older cars every now and ten a newer comes around to shine

Greg Jo The Jaguar F-type is not a bad effort, but it would be foolish to ask how does it compare to when I first saw a Jaguar E-type parked on my street in July 1974. It didnt matter that the World Cup final was on that Sunday afternoon, and my favourite player - Cruyff was playing, I felt like I had already lifted the trophy.

Pulsonar Aston Martin DB 7, Maserati 3200 GT, TVR Cerbera, TVR Chimaera or the Toyota Supra. All build in the "90's.

☝️🧐 I agree right next to the Kia Sephia

Left and right 😹😹

I think they used Jay's audio for the whole interview, the mic must have had problems.

People with decent speakers can hear it, too - it's not just headphone people you know.

I noticed that too. Jay’s lapel mike audio was only coming through the left earphone and the guests audio where coming out of the right earphone only. When Jay would get closer to the other guests you’d here his Audubon on the right more as it seemed the guest mike was picking it up. I going the assume his was some intentional experiment but some post-production audio screws-up.

well accidents do happen, and a warehouse fire can happen or a large sink hole... but i really hate people who buy cars and look at them as an investment....

Peter Lewis It's a car. It is meant to be driven.

Braden Carlson Explain that to the insurance company, i am sure they will also share your philosophy of driving eight figure sum Jaguars.

Peter Lewis if anything happens its the insurance job to pay for the repairs... some people with life insurance still take the bus and cross the road... what i'm trying to say is live life a little and enjoy it because you never know what is going to happen

Who cares about that crap? Drive the car, hard, like it was meant to be! Screw "museums". Cars are meant to be DRIVEN, and the only way people will appreciate them is seeing them on the road, not in some museum like a damned corpse...

Dan Sanger I agree with you Beautiful car. Always had a soft spot for British sports cars.

Dan Sanger My only nitpick is that it ain't in my garage!

Nor mine :-)

+Dan Sanger Agreed. Plus I've read passengers disliked riding in the XKSS because of the exhaust pipe right next to the -- it was LOUD

side pipes = instant erection

Mercedes G Wagen, but yeah.

Totally approve! 😁

20:24 He was being stalked by black SUVs. Luckily the drivers weren't victims of "unintended acceleration".

+whitedevil2 we will soon have a Jayguar

What do you mean by protection?? Like a condom.?

Like an insurance policy that covers a $25 mil car. LOL.

That car is what wet dreams are made of. Lol. If you don’t get at least a boner driving that car your brain dead.

Check out the Jag XJ13...way nicer.

kerranz Possibly...

Alpha Romeo Stradale...but, just like a beautiful woman, i could never pick just one.

59 stingray racer is the nicest car ever hands down.

Edslittleworld like

73mathesar Had the same thing happen to me.. It was kind of annoying.

They play in both speakers but one is louder than the other, it is a bit weird though I see what you mean

It is easy to make a production mistake like that - balancing the audio --- and since there is no need to have stereo they could make it mono - or you can do it yourself with an adapter on your headphones.

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Jay is not a fan of Ferrari, unfortunately.

Wot48 aleckermit It's too bad, really, but Ferrari has a horrendous history of supplying journalists with "perfectly tuned" cars for review to get rave reviews, then sell the car not-as-perfect. Jalopnik recently had a great article on Ferrari's tendency to do this. Obviously, Leno would probably get a privately owned Ferrari like Petrolicious does, but even still Ferrari swings a big bat even when it comes to their antique cars. So it might be difficult to air an honest opinion (as the Clarkson did with the F50).

Wot48 theres a mid sixties ferrari 2+2 parked next to the lamborghinis when he pulls into the garage.but you're right he doesn't seem to be huge fan.

jo-jo they ripped him off back in the day when he 1st started to get famous (and rich enough to buy one), but not too famous), poor service, lies etc. he never forgave them

rahowhero you know that would explain a lot. never heard that and always wondered what the deal was.thx

I think it's one of the best car colors ever created, especially on Bentley's, Jaguar's and my personal favorite, Aston Martins.

Bingo.

When it's on a Jag it's actually Jaguar Racing Green

I had an Austin Healey Sprite in BRG with a black interior, a gorgeous car.

Yes, the color is indeed British Racing Green. I know it when I see it, my Jaguar XK8 has the same color.

P.G. Reitsma, we know. A slip of Jay’s tongue.

To be honest, he probably takes the car he went home in, as his collection is in hangers at Burbank airport. The tough decision is what to drive home, but he's got all day at his garage to decide.

I don't think so it could be just Jay being really careful. No prob getting any bits, the clutch may be an uprated one but even so I bet my local Classic Jag shop could get one, the Jags are well supplied with parts the problem is paying for the bits, but some parts are the same as British Ford and other car manufactutes used so you can save a lot if you don't mind a part with a Ford serial number on your Jaguar.

Brian Catnut its the clutch. that era right into the 80s, beyond 250hp and foot pounds was a real bitch. Especially four speeds, first gear needs a ride anyway. I was just thinking Spec clutch fixed old subarus.. I ponder a stage 1 in the old jag. Beautiful machine.

***** so it is! I'm sure they won't have any bother fixing it

Curt Loesch My 1958 XK-150 roadster, bought from a USN commander in 1966 for $800, needed the original clutch replaced. Had to wait for 6 months for Coventry to ship the replacement. The only two car regrets I've had were selling my roadster to pay for school and not buying a D Jag engine for $500 when that rare offer was available. Just didn't have the money nor garage space at the time. Hell of an every day ride though, complete understand Jay's grinning throughout the drive.

Peter Schiavo he later said in the 70's.............

Peter Schiavo That is very cool ! I've seen that movie so many times ( it's one of my favorites) but I never noticed it. Gonna watch it again and look for this car !

9 were destroyed in the fire 16 were left to complete and sold, this is one of them. So most weren't lost.

1971mgb I see we have a "word play" nazi...you know, the downs having brother of the grammar nazi. You need a hobby.

Chris Pappas You need math lessons.

1971mgb You need to stay off the internet. Because he said most and you said 9 is not most means nothing. You felt the urge to chime in and prove nothing.

Chris Pappas Please return downstairs to your Mother's basement.