Margaret Thatcher's 2010 XJ8

Last official car made bullet and bombproof for Margaret Thatcher to go under hammer | Daily Mail Online

 

Let's hope this car is up next for auction...

 

The Queen's X-type is built on the Ford CDW27 platform which had been around since the early 1990's. (Ford Contour/Mazda 626) Entry level Jaguar. Very dated design.

 

And anyway, I'm pretty sure personal royal stuff gets a change of registration number when it's sold.

 

Around 1985 or so I was visiting London as a tourist, and was surprised to walk down Whitehall, and be alongside Thatcher in the back of an XJ extended wheelbase. She was busy haranguing some poor ******* in the other rear seat, but I was maybe 3 ft from her.
No cell-phone cameras back then. I assume it was an armored model, but there was no other escort around.,
Living in the US, I found that strange..... and she must have had more ***** than a US President would - I think this was AFTER the IRA Brighton Bombing ?

Must have been the subconscious reason I now have an XJ Vanden Plas !

 

When David Cameron first became PM he decided to walk from No.10, down along Whitehall, to the Houses of Parliament. (He didn't do it for long !) Now that, for a POTUS, really would be something.

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Very interesting info from Bonhams':

 

One would imagine that Eibach springs have additional 'coil-overs' which act as 'helpers' to the air springs.

So were Hitler's (but Maggie had more b*lls !)

(Joke !)

 

Thatcher was called (behind her back) as "Attila the Hen." It didn't help that her husband was very mousy and evidently quite henpecked.

 

Dammit. I thought all Jaguars were "bullet-proof" :-)