Are these for reals? Never heard of such a thing, but they do look awesome. If they're not greatly achieved photo shop pics, who made these and how many were converted?

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Officially only one rolled out of the factory, a bit shorter than standard X300 and without engine... at some point later it was purchased by one company and restored and now it's drivable and road legal There's at least one conversion on this forum, but not road legal yet as far as I'm aware

 

The Corsica... much too sad it never made it to production. A beautiful version of our beloved X300, which would have been quite popular I imagine. It would have created countless more threads here about how to keep that top operating properly!

 

A stunning car and a great pity that Jaguar didn't put it into production.

David Marks did the restoration project, here is a link. David Marks Garages - Daimler Corsica Project, Part 1

Car is equally gorgeous on the inside, sigh

 

I believe , initially when it rolled out of the factory it had no engine in it.

It now has thanks to some great fanatics!

 

So, only one accounted for, huh. Curiously, both pictures appear to show the same wheels, which are not standard X300 wheels as, perhaps indicating car #2 from the same people?

The car looks very sweet and I'm sure that it would've been great success for Jaguar, had they put it into production. Maybe the on-going creation of the convertible XK8's and XKR's was enough convertible projects for Jaguar at the time. Besides, historically, it is not customary for Jaguar to consider a convertible version out of a sedan.

Well, yet another example on the list of Jaguar "what if's" that we're familiar with.

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OK, so it was only one car. The rather different color on the two pictures clearly threw me off believing there was a second example...no wonder "they" have the same wheels...LOL

My bad.

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Great link, Allan, much appreciated. What a great story and what an awesome result!

I think that Jaguar missed out on a marketing tool, which is to increase the number of models as much as it is feasible to do, and especially when there's one model that's a potential real winner, giving the market (potential buyers) more options within the brand (how many models does Mercedes typically offer?). The only problem in this case would be that this project was achieved in the mid 2000's, when the X300 and even the X308 were no longer in production and Jaguar was in the middle of the steepest, vertical freefall in sales history (at least in the US).

But...it would've been nice

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Hi Reinaldo,

I'm not sure if I read your post correctly but the car was originally designed and produced by Jag's Special Vehicle Operations group as a concept car and displayed at various shows in 1996. It was widely admired at the time and many enthusiasts were hoping that it would go into production but Jag (Ford?) decided not to

The car languished at the JDHT museum for another decade or so and then a plan was hatched to send it to DMG to be finished as a working car. I assume it is back at the museum now?

I think it's a great shame as even now the car still looks fabulous and very current to my eyes

 

It was on the JDHT stand at the Classic Motor Show at the NEC in November.

Even the clock works

 

There is a photograph of the Daimler Corsica in the December edition of The Jaguar Enthusiasts magazine. Page 108.

 

I totally agree, the car still looks fabulous and fairly current after almost twenty years. Call me old fashioned, but I do not always agree with critics who are just a little too quick to render a current model "dated", a practice that's quite typical of young(er) car magazine writers.

Bring me an old XKI120 body with the chassis, suspension and running gear of a current XK "R", or an XJS with the same from a current 5.0L s/c XJ.
Wow... LOL...

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Typo, XK120

 

They were a standard X300 wheel for Daimlers. The Corsica is a beautiful car, I've seen it in person and it looks better than the photos. A fitting tribute to Daimler's 100th anniversary.

 

This is the most gorgeous Jag I have ever seen, looks especially good in Ice Blue which is the colour of my beloved X300! To my eye it is massively more stylish and sleeker than XJS, can't believe Ford didn't get it into production!! (such is the fate of so many stunning concept models, they tease us and then take them away!)

 

It's not blue, it's green. Sort of a seafoam green, unique to the car. Perhaps a better pic: http://www.bozhdynsky.com/wp-content...aimler0001.jpg

And http://www.rtrehearn.plus.com/200906...%20%282%29.JPG

 

Yeah, having googled more pics I later realised it is green. On my PC it looked blue, plus the pics are fairly poor quality. Maybe I was also fantasizing about how my ice blue sedan would look as a convertible!