Ask how many XK140s Jaguar built and you will be told 8,935, or 8,937, or 8,943, or 8,948, or 8,951, or 8,956, depending where you look. Jaguar's own heritage website says 8,956. Wikipedia, citing the Heritage Trust, says 8,937.
The explanation is that the Trust's underlying production table has two columns — chassis numbers allocated, and cars actually built — and its own web page has conflated them. 8,956 is the number of chassis numbers used. 8,937 is the number of cars built. Every source downstream has picked one column without knowing there were two.
The same confusion explains a long-running argument about right-hand-drive roadsters. You will see 73 and you will see 74. Both are correct, for different questions: 74 chassis numbers were allocated, 73 complete cars were built, and the seventy-fourth was a chassis-only special build. A source that gives one figure without the other is losing information rather than settling anything.
Of those right-hand-drive roadsters, the Heritage Trust records that only 45 found home-market customers — a separate and much less quoted figure, and a striking one.
By body style
| Body | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Open Two Seater | 3,349 or 3,356 | Wikipedia / Jaguar Heritage |
| Fixed Head Coupe | 2,798 | Wikipedia |
| Drophead Coupe | 2,790 | Wikipedia |
The split between standard, Special Equipment and C-type cars has never been published in full. Partial figures suggest roughly 57% of left-hand-drive cars and 24% of right-hand-drive cars were Special Equipment with the C-type head. The complete table exists, but only inside Clausager.