here are car shows where you walk around, take a few photographs and go home.
And then there are shows where you suddenly find yourself standing in front of a car you have dreamed about for years.
For me, that car is the Jaguar XJ220.
Broadway Car Show returned to the beautiful Cotswold village of Broadway on 15–16 August 2026, bringing modern supercars on Saturday and an extraordinary collection of classics and prestige cars on Sunday.
There was plenty to photograph over the weekend. But among all those cars, there were two Jaguars that made this year’s Broadway particularly special for me.
The first was the XJ220.
A car that doesn’t need to shout
Even today, surrounded by modern supercars covered in aggressive aerodynamic details, enormous wings and increasingly complicated bodywork, the XJ220 simply doesn’t need to try that hard.
It sits low, wide and incredibly clean.
Its shape comes from another era, yet somehow it still looks special among cars built more than three decades later.
And people notice it.
You don’t need to know its specifications. You don’t need to know its history. You don’t even need to be particularly interested in cars.
When an XJ220 appears, you look.
For me there was obviously something more personal about seeing it at Broadway. This isn’t simply another rare Jaguar.
The XJ220 has been one of my dream cars for a very long time — the kind of car you don’t just photograph and forget five minutes later.
Standing next to it, photographing it from every angle and even having the opportunity to sit inside it made this particular encounter rather more memorable than most.
But Broadway had another Jaguar waiting nearby.
And this one came with an extraordinary story of its own.
Jaguar XJ13R
Alongside the XJ220 was the Jaguar XJ13R from the JHW Classics collection.
The story behind the XJ13 itself is remarkable.
Jaguar built only one original XJ13 in the 1960s as a potential Le Mans contender. Powered by a 5-litre V12 and shaped by aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer, it never actually raced.
During testing at MIRA in 1971, the original car was badly damaged in a high-speed accident with Jaguar test driver Norman Dewis behind the wheel. Dewis escaped with minor injuries and Jaguar subsequently rebuilt the car.
That original XJ13 survives today in the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust collection.
The car I photographed at Broadway is the XJ13R belonging to the JHW Classics collection — and getting close to it is an experience in itself.
From the front it looks almost like sculpture.
From the side, impossibly low.
But walk around the back and suddenly the mechanical side of the car becomes every bit as fascinating as its bodywork.
The engine is right there.
No enormous plastic covers hiding everything from sight. Instead you can actually look into the heart of the car and appreciate the engineering, pipes, metalwork and mechanical detail.
For a photographer, it’s difficult to know where to start.
Fortunately, I had plenty of time — and plenty of memory cards.
More than photographing the cars
There was also a personal side to seeing these Jaguars again.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jane and the people behind these remarkable cars, rather than simply seeing them as anonymous exhibits at a car show.
Jane is behind JHW Classics, whose collection includes both the Jaguar XJ13R and the XJ220 seen at Broadway, alongside an extraordinary selection of other historic and unusual vehicles.
JHW Classics describes its purpose as collecting, managing and preserving some of the greatest automobiles ever made, with cars from the collection also appearing in television, advertising, presentations and private events.
If you’re interested in the collection — and particularly after seeing these two Jaguars, I suspect you might be — it’s well worth having a look:
JHW Classics: https://www.jhwclassics.com/
That personal connection changed the experience for me.
There is a difference between photographing an interesting car parked at an event and actually talking to the people who know it, look after it and understand the story behind it.
It gives the photographs a little more meaning.
And then there was everything else…
Of course, Broadway wasn’t only about two Jaguars.
Across the weekend there were supercars, classics, racing machinery and some wonderfully unusual vehicles filling the streets and the Green.
Some were worth studying for their engineering.
Some for their history.
Some simply because they looked fantastic through a camera.
And after two days at Broadway, I came home with far too many photographs to squeeze into a traditional article.
So I’m not going to try.
Instead, below you’ll find a gallery of 45 photographs from Broadway Car Show 2026.
Take your time.
Have a look through them.
And choose your own favourite.
Mine?
I think you already know.
Jaguar XJ220.
One day.
