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Part 14 — Is this new? Nobody, even those overseeing the process, would have anticipated the time which would pass before the full-production AJ6 and its principal recipient came to market in October 1986; not far off three years after the all-new twin-cam 24 valve engine, in small-scale production, was offered in the XJ-S. In …

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Commercial breakdown. Choosing a light commercial vehicle requires careful consideration and the help of an accountant: What are the payload and volume requirements? How does the expected annual mileage, urban and extra-urban, translate into operating expenses? What’s the residual value after the holding period? And so forth. Sounds tedious? Thanks to Stellantis (+ Toyota), you ...

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This is why we have History. Recently, with a slightly glib title presenting itself to me on a plate (Not Much DNA in the LNA), I used an initialism I usually avoid in a motoring context. I’m not a geneticist, but I’ve always been mildly irritated by the motoring world’s use of ‘DNA’ to describe …

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A Japanese car designed and developed in the USA to be exported to Japan… over a century ago. The son of a banker, Jiro Fujioka was born near Tokyo in 1887. As was the custom in certain Japanese societal circles at the time, he was betrothed at age four to then newborn girl, Moto Hayami—the …

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A final set of outakes from Fred’s recent travelogue. All photos by the author. . . The beginning and end of Talbot-Lago in a single image. In the background is a T15, built in 1939, a few years after Antonio Lago had taken over Automobiles Talbot France from S.T.D. Motors Limited. Its 6-cylinder engine had …

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