Jaguar's half-year sales leap by 63%
Jaguar has notched up record half-year sales figures.
The Ford offshoot sold 68,867 cars worldwide between January and June.
This is up 63% on the same period last year, which was also a recordbreaker.
Sales in the US - the company's biggest market - were up 61% to 32,642.
Jaguar did even better in Japan, where first-half sales were up 110% - helped by a best-ever June, in which purchases increased by 148%.
Italy, now Jaguar's third biggest market, saw an 80% increase to 3,334 in the first six months of this year.
The big seller for Jaguar this year has been its new entry-level X-Type sports saloon, which has so far notched up sales of 40,742 worldwide.
Managing director Mike Beasley says: "We remain on course to set our fifth consecutive full-year sales record in 2002."
