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I don’t know about China, but here it’s the Year of the Jaguar — 75 years since baptism, sales up 42.5 per cent, the launch of the new XJ — and for one of their birthday parties, Jaguar took some hacks to try out the current model range on Germany’s notorious Nürburgring.

I don’t know about China, but here it’s the Year of the Jaguar — 75 years since baptism, sales up 42.5 per cent, the launch of the new XJ — and for one of their birthday parties, Jaguar took some hacks to try out the current model range on Germany’s notorious Nürburgring. My brother lapped it last year on his Triumph Tiger, easing off at 120mph as Porsches flashed past him into a blind corner, after which he had to squeeze between two Ford Transits fighting a lumbering duel.

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We began more sedately, picking up an XJ at the airport and cruising through wooded hills and prosperous villages to the Ring.