Early on a stunningly sunny Saturday morning in March, Jaguars started to arrive at Podium Café on the outskirts of Newbury for the inaugural JEC Cars and Coffee meet. It was to be a wonderful morning of celebration, coffee and cakes! There was something for everyone, from the feature display of TWR Jaguars to the diversity of cars, from the oldest, a Mark IV, to the latest F-PACE SVRs. Visitors enjoyed tours of the new TWR performance facility where the XJS Supercat is built, and we were joined for talks by Jaguar celebrities, including the former Chief Engineer of TWR during the 1988 and 19 ..read more

At the NEC Classic Motor Show back in November 2024, the JEC Team presented an episode of the Jaguar Enthusiast Podcast in front of a live audience . It was a chance to get the some of the show team together to look back over the past 12 months and also preview what is to come in 2025. The team consisted of James Blackwell (JEC General Manager), Dan Moffat (XJ40 model coordinator), Colin Porter (JEC Tracksport manager), Tom Robinson (JEC Technical Director) and Ray Ingman (Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine sub-editor). The panel was hosted by Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine editor and podcast host Wa ..read more

Fergus Walkinshaw and John Kane met while on a road rally. Both had a passion for fast cars and Jaguars. Fergus's link to the marque is obvious. His father was Tom Walkinshaw, the man behind TWR and JaguarSport. The man who took Jaguar to victory at Daytona, then Le Mans in 1988 and 1990, built the XJ220 and XJR-15 and ran the Group C programme successfully for Jaguar, taking the brand to World Sportscar Championship status. Before all that - TWR revived ailing XJ-S sales in the early '80s by making the wafty big GT do things nobody could have imagined, like winning the Spa 24 Hours and Bathur ..read more

To celebrate the monumental milestone of both our 100th episode and the start of a new series of Jaguar Enthusiast Podcasts, we took the show out in front of a live audience at Podium Place, Newbury. We were recording in Podium Paddock, the private members’ club that inhabits the mezzanine floor above TWR’s workshops. As we spoke, the new TWR SuperCat was being built and in a later episode, we will share our interview with Fergus Walkinshaw. In this episode though, Richard West turns the tables on Wayne Scott, the usual presenter of the podcast, and instead puts him in the hot seat to be inter ..read more

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The Jaguar Enthusiast Podcast has created a tradition of gathering the team together at the end of each year and reviewing the highlights of the past 12 months of Jaguar activities together. This year is no different so, on this special episode, we will be sharing some personal memories and looking forward to the amazing calendar of events yet to come in the New Year. Join James Blackwell, Richard West, Colin Porter and Ray Ingman - hosted by Wayne Scott for our fun review of 2023.  ..read more

The Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine Podcast visits a well-known Jaguar business in Somerset for a behind-the-scenes tour of their workshops and facilities. Swallows Racing has built up over four decades and three generations of the same family to the position they are in now with huge facilities for car servicing, major repairs race preparation, full restoration and even bespoke parts and engineering.  Tom Robinson takes us for a tour round and explains how they are growing to meet the increasing demands of their customers.  ..read more

The JEC Podcast continues with part two of an exciting interview that investigates the background and lives of the two drivers who took Jaguar to victory at Le Mans in 1953, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton. Find out why Duncan Hamilton carried satsuma in every race car, how the 1953 race unfolded and how Tony Rolt’s legacy is long-lasting to this day with all-wheel drive. Wayne Scott talks to Stuart Rolt (Major Tony Rolt's son), Caroline Lee (Duncan Hamilton's daughter) and Dominic Hamilton (Duncan Hamilton's grandson).  This interview was reproduced on the JEC Podcast with the kind ..read more

At last, the JEC Podcast returns and we are back in fine style with part one of an exciting interview that investigates the background and lives of the two drivers who took Jaguar to victory at Le Mans in 1953, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton.We investigate the fascinating and heroic lives of these Jaguar icons with their descendants, as Wayne talks to Stuart Rolt (Major Tony Rolt's son), Caroline Lee (Duncan Hamilton's daughter) and Dominic Hamilton (Duncan Hamilton's grandson). We also take the opportunity to explore the myths surrounding the lead-up to the 1953 Le Mans. Did Rol ..read more

Pioneering renewable fuel specialist, Coryton, recently launched the UK's first publicly available sustainable fuel. It is a fuel that could secure the future of the classic vehicle movement and historic motorsport. The SUSTAIN Classic range allows regular combustion engines in our Jaguars to be fuelled by environmentally friendly, plant-based petrol without the need for any engine modifications. Now available from launch partner, Motor Spirit at Bicester Heritage, with more stockists to follow, there are already classic cars on our roads using the fuel and a number of rallies and motorsport e ..read more