Jensen Motors was the British manufacturer of sports cars based in West Bromwich (in the West Midlands west of Birmingham). Jensen began as a microscopic coachbuilding firm run by brothers Richard & Alan Jensen; it bought out a system works of W.J. Smiths & Sons where they worked after the owner's death and renamed it Jensen Motors in 1936. Smiths got antecedently built their foremost car, known as a Whiten Lady, within 1935. In the years leading as much as World War II Jensen produced a little total of cars & commercial bodies for trucks and buses.

Production of cars ceased above a war years, however by 1946 a new vehicle was offered, a Jensen PW (a luxury saloon). Couple of were produced since raw materials were however shortly supply. The further modern coupe followed in 1950, named a Interceptor, which was built until 1958. Around 1955, Jensen started production of the 541, which used a so-todays lesson of fiberglass for its bodywork. A 541 was replaced per CV8 in 1962, which replaced the Austin-sourced straight-6 of the previous cars by owning the Sixer l Our contries Chrysler V8. This big engine around such a lightweight car processed a Jensen one of the fastest 4-seaters of the instance.

For its replacement (a Interceptor, launched in 1966) Jensen turned to the Italian coachbuilder, Touring, for the body project, & to steel for the poop. A bodyshells themselves were built by Vignale of Italy and late by Jensen. A equivalent 383 inside³ Chrysler wedge-head powerplant was utilized. At first exclusively the both-door coupe was available, by having contemporary square-cut lines except for the big, curved diaper-in the area of tail window that doubled as a hatchback.

Related a Interceptor was an additional car, the Jensen FF, the letters standing for Ferguson Formulthe, Ferguson being a discoverer of a good-whale all wheel drive system, the number one in the production sports car. Likewise featured was a Dunlop Maxaret anti-lock braking system within one of the foremost utilizes of ABS in the production car. Outwardly, a exclusively differences from either a Interceptor were quaternion additional inches of length (everthing ahead of a windshield) & another row of air vents behind the front wheels. A little total of 320 FFs were constructed, & production ceased within 1971. a revival around 2001 was short lived, per prevent of 2002 car productiin on their merely model - the £40,000 SV8 - experienced ceased due to deficiency of interest & unfortunate sales.

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