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Article: The Jaguar X-factor
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- New Straits Times
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- March 1, 2009
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Andrew Suresh
New Straits Times
03-01-2009
The Jaguar X-factor
Byline: Andrew Suresh
Edition: New Sunday Times
Section: Cars, Bikes & Trucks
Column: Classic chatter
THE word X-factor is commonly defined as the unexplainable element of a person's attractiveness, sexiness or something which is unknown or hard to define but is an important special property.
These days, we hear a lot about the X-factor in reality and television shows.
Back in the 1940s, British carmaker and the founder of Jaguar cars, William Lyons, must have had a strong intuition that his then new post-war sports car would ooze with the X-factor and he cleverly named it the XK120, the first model in the range.
Known for his ...