Jaguar Mark V

The Jaguar Mark V was a luxury car built by Jaguar Cars Ltd of Coventry from 1948 to 1951, offered as a four-door saloon and as a two-door drophead coupe, both seating five. It was introduced in September 1948 and shown at the London Motor Show alongside the XK120, which it outsold by roughly five thousand cars a year to two thousand. It was the first Jaguar with independent front suspension by double wishbones and torsion bars and with hydraulic brakes, the first designed for both left and right hand drive, and the last to use the pushrod engines, in 2.5-litre and 3.5-litre straight-six form producing about 102 and 125 bhp. The styling followed prewar SS Jaguar lines, with an upright chrome grille and rear wheel spats as standard.