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I have taken it upon myself to put together a registry of 1995 Model Year Jaguar XJS V12 coupes and convertibles. These cars will be the last V12 sports car that Jaguar will ever build. I have scoured the dark spaces of the internet and have saved and researched old ebay ads, advertisements of cars for sale, various database sites, facebooks pages, as well as other social media sites and forums to gather as much information as i can find. i have also sourced some information from Jaguar heritage in as far as how many 1995 V12 coupes were built, i paid them to give me a breakdown of how many cars were built, and which markets they were delivered to. I have tried to verify the VIN numbers that i have documented to ensure the information is correct but as with anything mistakes are possible.
what is a 1995 model year xjs?
Lets Talk VIN numbers USA
Lets Talk VIN numbers USA
Lets Talk VIN numbers USA
The car's vehicle identification number (VIN) is the identifying code for a SPECIFIC automobile. The VIN serves as the car's fingerprint, as no two vehicles in operation have the same VIN. A VIN is composed of 17 characters (digits and capital letters) that act as a unique identifier for the vehicle. A VIN displays the car's unique features, specifications and manufacturer. All cars built after 1981 used the 17 digit standardized VIN system, to complicate matters the VIN system used for the USA market is different to the VIN used in the rest of the world (ROW) The main difference is with the USA delivered cars the 10th digit represents the model year that is assigned to the vehicle. This digit can be a number or a letter depending when the car was built. For example in 1994 the 10th digit was "R" and 1995 "S" and 1996 was "T". So we know for sure that a USA delivered car with an "S" in the 10th place of the VIN is a 1995 model year, even though the car was actually built in 1994. Typically manufacturers start building the next model year in September, with Jaguar in 1994 they started building 1995 model year XJS's in March of 1994.
Lets Talk VIN numbers ROW
Lets Talk VIN numbers USA
Lets Talk VIN numbers USA
The VIN system used by what is known as the Rest Of The World (ROW) does not have a date check digit, and both VIN contain mostly similar information the ROW numbers are one space behind they USA VIN, so the 4th digit refers to the model XJS (N) on ROW cars the 5th digit refers to the model XJS and this is true through the other digits which refer to destination country, body type, engine capacity, transmission / steering configurations. The ROW VIN is easy to spot because it starts SAJJ whereas the USA VIN starts SAJN. The lack of date digit in ROW VIN's does create a bit of a problem when it comes to determining if your V12 car is a 1994 model or a 1995 model. The earliest confirmed 1995 USA VIN i have is 193705 and i believe this is the very first non prototype 1995 V12 built in March 1994. Jaguar were building 1994 and 1995 model years at the same time in March and April of 1994, i know 194680 is a 1994 V12 with a "R" VIN. There is an overlap of about 1,000 VIN numbers where an XJS could be either an 1994 or 1995 model year. The last 1994 4.0 liter XJS was 194766 and the earliest 4.0 1995 VIN was 193707.