I am thinking of getting a Jaguar.
The car or the cat? ha ha. Either would probably be pretty expensive.  I saw a picture of the XJ220 in black in a magazine the other day. That v12 engine is hot.
The vehicle. A v12 sounds powerful. When was Jaguar started?
I think they start in the 1960s. It depends on the model. For example, the XJ-S was made from 1975 to 1996. What model do you want to get?
Im not sure. Who started Jaguar?
I think Land Rover may have started it. Then Ford took it over and sold it to Tata Motors.  Have you gone looking at Jaguars yet since you want to buy one?
I have not. Im just curious about the brand. Since you are so knowledgeable what else can you tell me about Jaguar?
I just remembered that Jaguar was founded in 1922.  That's right.  Swallow Sidecar Company started making motorcycle sidecars before making cars for passengers.  Crazy!
That is a long time ago. Must be around the time the Model T came out.
Swallow Sidecar Company
Swallow Sidecar Company, Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company, and Swallow Coachbuilding Company were trading names used by Walmsley & Lyons, partners and joint owners of a British manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars and automobile bodies in Blackpool, Lancashire — later Coventry, Warwickshire — before incorporating a company to own their business which they named Swallow Coachbuilding Company Limited.
Under co-founder William Lyons its business continued to prosper as SS Cars Limited and grew into Jaguar Cars Limited. The sidecar manufacturing business, by then owned by a
due to the sale and servicing of the 28 GTR racing variants produced.
Further complicating the sales situation was the announcement by JaguarSport of a road-going version of the XJR-9, the last of the racing cars to feature the Jaguar V12 engine. The resulting car, called the XJR-15 was entirely developed by TWR and designed by Peter Stevens whilst the XJ220 was being developed at Jaguar. The XJR-15 featured the V12 engine similar to the unit found in the XJR-9 and a host of other technologies not adopted for the XJ220,