Like many enthusiasts, I copied the Top Gear consensus that it was 'Jaguars weakest moment'. Now I own an X350 while living in a city with tight streets, I can see the benefits of a car with slightly smaller outside dimensions. The interior of an XJ is cramped anyways. I actually like the facelift model. The S type R facelift is my favorite. I really think it could have been more succesful if it had offered those bumpers as an R package on regular models, at an earlier moment. The image problem was caused by many of the cars on the road, being delivered in grandpa spec with a boring colour and small wheels, lots of chrome. The retro lines worked well with the villanous touch of the S-Type R facelift. The same goes for the X358 facelift compared to the X350. I really think Ian Calumn understood the X350 design better than at the moment the X350 came out. Maybe it was Ford who told them to add so much chrome to the X350, I couldn't tell. Removing the plastic mid door protection strip made the car look way less bulky. Add the big wheels make the x358 looks like a Hotwheels version of a classic Jag, rather than a fat version of it. 17 inch and even 18 inch make the car look fat, they're too much inset and too small considering the height of the body. Also, the chrome strip that goes across the bootlid is now wider, making the car look low and wide from behind, instead of high and narrow. Finally, removing the chrome around the front and back windows emphasised the chrome window line on the side of the car, making the car visually longer and slimmer. The huge parts of blacked out glass on the front and rear glass don't show as much as on an x350, especially in darker colours. I really think the X358 encapsuled way more what a Jag XJ should be. It was originally designed to be a 4 door E type by sir Willilam Lyons. While the X350 can be very boring looking, in many configuarations, the X358 is always a bit naughty. It's a big car, that's not ashamed of it.
@@nathanfisher5825 i have a 4.2 v8 supercharged s type,im currently in the proccess of doing a maual swap im just waiting on the lockdown finishing so i can have an adapter made
Actually the platform for the S-Type was in development at Jaguar before Ford took over and the Lincoln LS used the same platform. So it was the other way around. After Ford got rid of Jaguar a Lincoln would never drive as well as those Jaguar based ones did.
Hey great video thanks also I have a gearbox fault on the jag and wondering if I should just go ahead and change the gearbox or have it check for a transmission fault as well just in case? The computer hasn't had any problems so just wondering if I can trust it with this issue just looking for some advice thanks.
is this film or video? looks film to me, but that's weird considering it was 1999 - i believe video was easy to shoot outdoors; i.e. the video equipment was small and easy enough to carry around outside
okay, probably this was intentional to make it resemble whatever show they are imitating (the guys with the cockney accent) - maybe that show is old, so. also, i feel this may have been an 'effect', and not real 'film'.
I like the 2002 dark blue jaguar S type although I don't think I'll ever own one unless someone to s feeling extremely generous They need to pay for a driving course pay for my insurance pay for the car and petrol tax and MOT anyone feeling that generous 😂
May joined *New* Top Gear in 2003 (replacing Jason Dawe), but he was on *Old* Top Gear briefly for one series in 1999. Clarkson was also on Old Top Gear but from 1988 to 1998, and Hammond came from Men & Motors (1998-2002).
Stype always run better than mercedes and bmw 5 e39 even e60.. İ drive all engine stype e class and 5.. Stype run better then others and you get most fun stype.. İ think stype last real english britian style jaguar and goes classic... new xf, xe and others looks like convensial german cars..
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God that intro
It's very typical of BBC shows around that time and there are other BBC intros that are much the same.
Better than nowadays of course.
@AlexGRFan97 but that's the thing people didn't get in the 1990s, just throwing as much shit on the screen as technology permitted doesn't work
@@Ryan98063 the 1999-2000 intro was much better and was one of my favorite intros from the old top gear
Super bass. 👌
James, Tiff, and Quentin. The odd, goofy trio that almost was.
Hell of an entry from Tiff there, i wonder how many takes that took..
One.
@@schizogony Just the 1even if he had partaken of a drink or 10 as is his want.
Tiffs a professional, probably 1
Top Class show.
Hard to believe James was only 36 here.
I have a 2006 S-Type and everywhere I take it people love it ❤
Like many enthusiasts, I copied the Top Gear consensus that it was 'Jaguars weakest moment'. Now I own an X350 while living in a city with tight streets, I can see the benefits of a car with slightly smaller outside dimensions. The interior of an XJ is cramped anyways. I actually like the facelift model. The S type R facelift is my favorite. I really think it could have been more succesful if it had offered those bumpers as an R package on regular models, at an earlier moment. The image problem was caused by many of the cars on the road, being delivered in grandpa spec with a boring colour and small wheels, lots of chrome.
The retro lines worked well with the villanous touch of the S-Type R facelift. The same goes for the X358 facelift compared to the X350. I really think Ian Calumn understood the X350 design better than at the moment the X350 came out. Maybe it was Ford who told them to add so much chrome to the X350, I couldn't tell. Removing the plastic mid door protection strip made the car look way less bulky. Add the big wheels make the x358 looks like a Hotwheels version of a classic Jag, rather than a fat version of it. 17 inch and even 18 inch make the car look fat, they're too much inset and too small considering the height of the body. Also, the chrome strip that goes across the bootlid is now wider, making the car look low and wide from behind, instead of high and narrow. Finally, removing the chrome around the front and back windows emphasised the chrome window line on the side of the car, making the car visually longer and slimmer. The huge parts of blacked out glass on the front and rear glass don't show as much as on an x350, especially in darker colours.
I really think the X358 encapsuled way more what a Jag XJ should be. It was originally designed to be a 4 door E type by sir Willilam Lyons. While the X350 can be very boring looking, in many configuarations, the X358 is always a bit naughty. It's a big car, that's not ashamed of it.
So much better quality than the version already on YT.
7:10
May always have been swaggy af 👌🏽😂💚
Wow this is really old. James has aged well. Good thing he doesn't talk like this anymore. Thanks.
but he still does
“I’ll do it in a small Jagwahr!”
'In fact they were so good in the wrong hands'. That's very well put.
James May is a legend
Love them! I've owned a Mark II & now a 2007 S-Type. They always turns heads, especially from Bimmers, Mercs & Audis.
Not with that fucking grill. Awful.
love it or hate it, look at the s types from the 60s...its called style..@@ericgeorge5483
Jags really are such "villainous" cars and always were. Stereotypical East End gangster from the 1960s.
My dad has a 2003 3.0 liter v6 stype
@@nathanfisher5825 i have a 4.2 v8 supercharged s type,im currently in the proccess of doing a maual swap im just waiting on the lockdown finishing so i can have an adapter made
Yes, very grime.
I think The Kray Twins had Jags ( I think the 420g)
and did you finalize it? I currently own the 3.0 manual@@somervillearron
James is fantastic.
I wanted one when it came out and I still want one 20 years later. Thought about it at least once a year.
I have one and it’s been pretty good to me :)
God the early interior on these was woeful; much better after the facelift.
Actually the platform for the S-Type was in development at Jaguar before Ford took over and the Lincoln LS used the same platform. So it was the other way around. After Ford got rid of Jaguar a Lincoln would never drive as well as those Jaguar based ones did.
Before Ford purchased Jaguar they were trying to ink a deal with GM to develop and produce smaller model based on the Omega
The introduction is classic
2:30 James May having a 1982 hair style in 1999!!!
Tiff. That intro. That guy rules.
Tiff is a god
Damm, I can´t belive that James was driving a Jaguar registered in Spain in 1999!!! Bonkers.
Right? Thought the same
WHAT?
IM SPANISH-
@@JV64 mira la matrícula
3:21 oh the good old days of vhs tape.. XD
1:38 wow Tiff, just wow
wait is that vicki BH? wow indeed
Baby may
1:53 LIKE A BOSS!
Hey great video thanks also I have a gearbox fault on the jag and wondering if I should just go ahead and change the gearbox or have it check for a transmission fault as well just in case? The computer hasn't had any problems so just wondering if I can trust it with this issue just looking for some advice thanks.
Do you have more old top Gear? Thanks!
Tiff at 1.16 - Hilarious!
James sounds posher here. I guess he toned down the poshness in later years.
I'm sure it's more down to the smoking over the years, similar to Clarkson's voice development.
i was like...woooowww..James could drive like that????? :D
IT LEFT THE GROUND
To think Slow replaced the Orangutan
Back then BBC considered James and Clarkson pretty similar
Now I remember why I have never watched a whole episode,bloody kids show.
6:23 Scotty?
Endless money pits. 🤗
I want to jump mine like that now
is this film or video? looks film to me, but that's weird considering it was 1999 - i believe video was easy to shoot outdoors; i.e. the video equipment was small and easy enough to carry around outside
okay, probably this was intentional to make it resemble whatever show they are imitating (the guys with the cockney accent) - maybe that show is old, so.
also, i feel this may have been an 'effect', and not real 'film'.
Should've had Mike Brewer on to do that bank job skit...
'OLD AAAAAT YER 'AND & GIVE ME THE WONGA!
Never once has Mike said it like that and I’ve seen every Autotrader and Wheeler Dealer episodes
Is that james he didn't look 80
Young James may look like Edmund from Narnia
I had one and i will buy another one cause i miss the car soo much. It’s just simply better than anyother saloon car.
티프니델!!!
Strange entry from Jaguar. The R version was okay though. The XF is a lot better as a successor.
I like the 2002 dark blue jaguar S type although I don't think I'll ever own one unless someone to s feeling extremely generous
They need to pay for a driving course pay for my insurance pay for the car and petrol tax and MOT anyone feeling that generous 😂
Car guy huh?
I thought may joined in 2003
May joined *New* Top Gear in 2003 (replacing Jason Dawe), but he was on *Old* Top Gear briefly for one series in 1999.
Clarkson was also on Old Top Gear but from 1988 to 1998, and Hammond came from Men & Motors (1998-2002).
James in his pre old lady days
lol this is so British.
old TopGear was too British xD
Back when Yaris was a new car... Ew.
It's a small thing but god those door handles were awful. There was no way to get grip and they were incredibly flimsy.
top gear could've been so much for the culture. It became tabloid thanks to "higher powers."
i got one for sale for a 1000€
Jaguar were the real crooks making that abysmal car.
Stype always run better than mercedes and bmw 5 e39 even e60.. İ drive all engine stype e class and 5.. Stype run better then others and you get most fun stype..
İ think stype last real english britian style jaguar and goes classic... new xf, xe and others looks like convensial german cars..
The front looks horrible with that grill.
Awful car.