Gerry McGovern sacked

Morse or rather John Thaw as Jack Regan in The Sweeney had even more to do with bank robbers.

The Sweeney - Wikipedia

The series is infamous for featuring Jaguars as the criminals' cars of choice.[9] Jaguar S-types in particular were regularly deployed throughout the series as getaway cars, most notably in episode 1.10 "Stoppo Driver". A blue/grey S-type DWD 606C is used in the series 1-3 opening titles, pursued and chased down by the squad in NHK 295M.

One reason cited for the regular appearance of Jaguars is that they were favoured by the stunt drivers as being the "safest" cars to use (stuntman Peter Brayham devised the chases[10]). The same few cars would be used and re-used, crashed, fixed up, and resprayed numerous times. According to Kevin Whately, John Thaw claimed that he had witnessed the regency red 1960 Jaguar Mark 2 (registration 248 RPA) used in Inspector Morse being written off several times while filming The Sweeney. Apparently, the car was in real-life a "polished up wreck" and would often break down during filming.[11]

I remember an old cop show here. Cops were in a Holden, chasing a 3.8. Passenger cop sys something like " come on, you're losing him". Driver replied "That's not a tractor he's driving, you know!" I remember it because it wasn't often that my Dad laughed.

Cops won in the end because the Jag ran out of petrol. You just can't get decent getaway drivers.

Those Granadas were no slouch in their time either.

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Morse or rather John Thaw as Jack Regan in The Sweeney had even more to do with bank robbers.

The Sweeney - Wikipedia

The series is infamous for featuring Jaguars as the criminals' cars of choice.[9] Jaguar S-types in particular were regularly deployed throughout the series as getaway cars, most notably in episode 1.10 "Stoppo Driver". A blue/grey S-type DWD 606C is used in the series 1-3 opening titles, pursued and chased down by the squad in NHK 295M.

One reason cited for the regular appearance of Jaguars is that they were favoured by the stunt drivers as being the "safest" cars to use (stuntman Peter Brayham devised the chases[10]). The same few cars would be used and re-used, crashed, fixed up, and resprayed numerous times. According to Kevin Whately, John Thaw claimed that he had witnessed the regency red 1960 Jaguar Mark 2 (registration 248 RPA) used in Inspector Morse being written off several times while filming The Sweeney. Apparently, the car was in real-life a "polished up wreck" and would often break down during filming.[11]

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because I'm old and invisible.... I seem to recall that the late Bob Jane raced a Mk2 3.8 Jag with some success in the mid-late 1960s. Always thought as a kid, that model with wire wheels was "the duck's guts"....to coin a phrase

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because I'm old and invisible.... I seem to recall that the late Bob Jane raced a Mk2 3.8 Jag with some success in the mid-late 1960s. Always thought as a kid, that model with wire wheels was "the duck's guts"....to coin a phrase

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Jaguar Mk 2: Bob Jane’s 4.1 litre 151 mph Super Cat! - Shannons Club

Beth in Yellowstone had a Jag or two as well,and certainly got them moving.

So did the matriarch Smurf in "Animal Kingdom",which was another top series.