Jag diesel to tackle Cape Challenge

28 June 2004: Jaguar Cars is entering its latest S-TYPE Diesel saloon into one of the toughest on-road events in the world.

The Cape-to-Cape Challenge starts at Europe’s northernmost point, Nordkapp, Norway, and continues for two-and-a-half days to Cape Tarifa, Spain, the southernmost tip of Europe.

Last year’s winner of the annual durability trek, motoring journalist Iain Robertson, is leading the driving team. He says he hopes to establish a new time record for the 3,550-miles driving exercise.

The Cape-to-Cape Challenge is not a speed event, even though it is the fastest time between the two European 'poles' that will determine the overall victor. There is a blanket 130 km/h maximum speed limit levied by the event organisers, and the Challenge adheres rigidly to the national speed restrictions in place travelling from Norway, via Finland, Sweden, Germany, Luxembourg and France to Spain.

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