Particularly attentive viewers may notice that on the ski slope Richard Hammond's Jag has different wheels to the ones it wore on the road. That's because he 'borrowed' some winter tyres for the snow.
James May believes Richard Hammond's Jaguar 'threw a rod'. This is a casual way of saying the connecting rod that joins one of the pistons to the crankshaft has become detached. This is very bad and means your engine will not work properly.
Richard Hammond's Jaguar 420G now seems to have a 4.2-litre engine making 176 horsepower, a 0-60 time of 12.1 seconds, a top speed of 123mph and a badge on the back that says XJ6.
The Jaguar XK8 was a comprehensive re-hash of the old XJS, featuring modernised suspension and a brand new V8 engine so that almost no one guessed its basic structure dated back to the 1970s.