Introducing Martin Joyce

Martin Joyce did a fabulous presentation on developing the X300 supercharger at XJRManual Day in August 2019 at Nigel Webb’s Mike Hawthorn Museum. From next month he will lead us through the development of Jaguar engines from the first XK to the present day.

Beginning with a general overview of engines from each era, he has planned a series of features explaining details that include power, friction and fuel economy, emissions, refinement – sound and vibration, fuel injection and engine control, boosting technologies, variable valve timing technologies, the future, and... the AJ6 prototype engines that didn’t make production.

In his quest to please, Martin has asked for requests on any other engine features that readers may like to see. I have already asked for an indepth explanation on emissions coding.

About the author:

Martin Joyce joined Jaguar Cars Ltd in the last days of BL ownership directly from university. After a year of graduate training, he joined the Engine Development department and worked there with increasing responsibility for 14 years, which culminated in leading the development of the AJ26 engine from 1st prototype until 1year after production started. A transfer to the Vehicle Engineering department started with a short spell on the X308 and then 5 years working on the X Type.

A move to the Japanese supplier DENSO followed in 2003 where he led Powertrain Engineering in the UK and subsequently Europe, working at times with most European OEM.

In 2011 he returned to an OEM to head up the then new Engine Department in the UK Technical Centre of Changan Automobile, one of the largest Chinese OEMs. In 2015, the first Changan UK designed engine, a 2.0l Turbo GDI went into production and in 2019 a completely new, state of the art engine family ranging from a 1.0l 3 cyl to a 1.5l 4 cyl Turbo GDI was introduced to considerable acclaim. Martin continues to work at Changan helping the company develop future engines and to match them with transmissions and hybrid systems to meet the modern demands set for vehicle powertrains.

Story taken from Xclusively Jaguar Magazine - August 2020 issue.

Read the full issue here.