Jaguar XK120

Jaguar XK120 motar wasanni ce ta Jaguar ta kera tsakanin 1948 zuwa 1954. Ita ce motar wasanni ta farko ta Jaguar tun lokacin samar da SS 100 ya ƙare a 1939.

XK120 samfuri ne mai kyawawa. A cikin 2016, Bonhams ya sayar da madaidaitan lambobi masu haɗaɗɗiyar titin hagu mai tuƙi - ɗaya daga cikin 184 kawai - akan $396,000 (£ 302,566). Wannan alama ce mafi girman farashin da aka samu na XK120 a gwanjon har yanzu. 

 Tarihi 
An ƙaddamar da XK120 a cikin buɗaɗɗen nau'i mai kujeru biyu ko (US) a Nunin Mota na London na 1948 a matsayin gwajin gwaji da kuma nuna mota don sabon injin Jaguar XK wanda Jaguar Babban Injiniya William Heynes ya tsara. Motar nuni ita ce samfurin farko, lambar chassis 660001. Ga alama kusan iri ɗaya da motocin kera sai dai madaidaitan ginshiƙan ginshiƙan gilashinsa suna lanƙwasa akan sigar samarwa. Motar wasanni ta haifar da abin mamaki, wanda ya shawo kan wanda ya kafa Jaguar kuma shugaban William Lyons ya sanya ta a cikin samarwa.Page 167, Chris Harvey.The Jaguar XK, Oxford Illustrated Press, UK. 1978. , 

Tun daga shekara ta 1948, motoci 242 na farko sun sanye da buɗaɗɗen gawarwakin kujeru 2 da aka yi da itace da katako. Page 167, Chris Harvey. Samfurin ya canza zuwa 1cwt ko  nauyi  duk-karfe a farkon 1950.</ref> all-steel in early 1950. The "120" in the name referred to the aluminium car's 120 mph (193 km/h) top speed (faster with the windscreen removed), which made it the world's fastestproduction car at the time of its launch.> "120" a cikin sunan yana nufin motar aluminum 120 mph (193 km/h) babban gudun (sauri tare da cire gilashin iska), wanda ya sanya ta zama mota mafi sauri a duniya a lokacin ƙaddamar da ita.  A cikin 1949 an kawo motar farko ta samarwa, lambar chassis 670003, zuwa Clark Gable .

XK120 ya kasance a ƙarshe yana samuwa a cikin nau'ikan jiki guda uku, duk masu kujeru biyu kuma ana samun su ko dai a matsayin Hagu (LHD) ko Driver Hannun Dama (RHD): buɗaɗɗen wurin zama 2 da aka bayyana a cikin kasuwar Amurka azaman hanyar hanya (OTS); kafaffen kai coupé (FHC) daga 1951; da Drophead Coupé (DHC) daga 1953. An siyar da wasu ƙwararrun kayan aikin titin titin da ƙayyadaddun motoci masu ƙayyadaddun kai tsakanin 1948 zuwa 1949 a matsayin ginin farko na samarwa don masu sha'awar, wanda 'S' ke nuna gaban lambar chassis.

An soke sigar tare da ƙaramin injin (lita 4-silinda na 2) wanda aka tsara XK100 kuma an soke shi don kasuwar Burtaniya kafin samarwa.

A ranar 30 ga Mayu, 1949, a kan babbar titin Ostend-Jabbeke a Belgium, wani samfurin XK120 wanda jami'an Royal Automobile Club na Belgium suka tsara ya sami matsakaicin gudu a cikin kwatance 132.6. mph tare da gilashin iska wanda aka maye gurbin shi da ƙaramin allo na iska ɗaya kawai da madadin babban kayan aiki da aka lissafa, The Times, 31 May 1949
Ostend 30 May: 
British Car's Speed Record
(extracts)
A Jaguar 3½-litre sports car . . . travelled at a timed speed of 132 mph on the Ostend-Jabbeke motorway today . . . The runs were timed by officials of the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium . . . moreover it was running on normal Belgian pump petrol and at the end of its high speed runs it demonstrated its ability to throttle down to 15 mph in top gear and to accelerate speedily without pinking.

Running with the hood up, the car averaged 126.4 mph for a mile in two runs in opposite directions. The fastest mean speed of 132.5 mph was reached with a racing windscreen in place, the best run being made at 133.2 mph. The car also covered a kilometre from a standing start at a speed of 74.1 mph and a mile at 86.4 mph. da 135 mph tare da murfin tonneau gefen fasinja a wurin. Porter, Philip (1998).  A cikin 1950 da 1951, a Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry, waƙar oval mai banki a Faransa, buɗe XK120s ya kai 100. mph na awanni 24 kuma sama da 130 mph na awa daya. A shekara ta 1952, Coupé mai kafaffen kai ya ɗauki tarihin duniya da yawa don saurin gudu da nisa lokacin da ya kai matsakaicin 100. mph har tsawon mako guda.

 Gina 
Farkon samar da XK120s na 242 na farko, wanda aka gina da hannu tare da jikin aluminium akan toka, an gina su ne tsakanin ƙarshen 1948 zuwa farkon 1950. Don saduwa da buƙatu, kuma farawa daga shekarar ƙirar 1950, duk XK120s na gaba an samar da su da yawa tare da matsi-karfe. An kiyaye kofofin aluminum, bonnet, da murfi na taya . Siffofin DHC da FHC, waɗanda aka naɗa cikin annashuwa fiye da buɗaɗɗen motocin da ake nunawa akai-akai, suna da tagogi mai iska da faren katako a kan dashboard da iyakoki na ciki.

XK120's karfe chassis aka yawanci kofe daga Jaguar Mark V, ta yin amfani da da yawa daga cikin sassa iri ɗaya.


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