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It's been a long time coming. Forty-one years after the Sir William Lyons-designed Jaguar XJ debuted, a completely new XJ is here. The original car was good, really good, nothing like the slightly bloated 1951 Mark VII or the awful 1962 Mark X. The first XJ was so good, in fact, that its basic formal themes persisted through multiple (although slight) variations, powered by new six-, eight-, and twelve-cylinder engines. Nice cars, all. But enough's enough. It was high time for a new - really new - XJ.