RE: Spotted: Jaguar XJ220S

[soad]

R26Chris said:

My God. That has made me feel like I'm 10 years old all over again! A true supercar. Yummy

Exactly, looks so good.

[Terminator X]

Wtf, mental car

TX.

[will261058]

mikEsprit said:

Codswallop said:

Wow! That looks very imposing. Not as pretty as the original, but it certainly has presence. The weight saving is incredible too

I generally like spoilers, but this one looks bad.

I generally don't like matte paint and this is another reason why.

Just what I was thinking though Im sure I could learn to live with it!

[GingerWizard]

My ALL time favorite car.

I got a picture for my birthday of one in goldy/beige/cream flip paint.

I'v had that 20 years now.

Even the new breed of hyper car are ultimatly afraid of the Big Jag, because you never know what its capable of, and i love the interior so much, so very very 80's English.

Not a massive fan of the wing, but the weight saving and power hike must make that good for 400km/ph with the right gearing, it still looks so slippary!

[madmover]

That is stunning but Boy that interior is something else...Love it!

[arfur]

jagnet said:

wibble

Yup .... wibble

The other day I was driving around the back of Harrods and there was an oldish Vantage 600 in front of me

This is another reason why certain cars just evoke more "wow" then the usual FerLamBug stuff...

Cool as st

Arf

[Prawnboy]

cool as f....
did any other car maker put dials on the doors in somthing i could afford.
i want dials on my doors.

[only1ian]

DanGPR said:

1080kg

600+bhp

That would be a handful when it comes on song! Crackers car, looks much more purposeful than the standard car.

700bhp with the ecu remap old boy and your not wrong!

[PiB]

Now why can't the 'light-weight' versions of todays cars also loose 400kilos instead of just the typical the 15-25kilos.

[DeltaEvo2]

Are the rear lights upside down lights from the Rover 200?

[JohnG1]

Wedgepilot said:

Want. Really, really want.....even if the dash looks like it's been lifted from an old Metro

Well, the engine was....

[Megaflow]

Veyron - 1001bhp / 1900kg = 527bhp/tonne
XJ220S - 680bhp / 1080kg = 629bhp/tonne



Nippy then!

[JohnG1]

Megaflow said:

Veyron - 1001bhp / 1900kg = 527bhp/tonne
XJ220S - 680bhp / 1080kg = 629bhp/tonne



Nippy then!

Would you fancy it in the wet on a twisty?!!!

[Hoddy910]

I think I just came

[leon9191]

Slippydiff said:

Between 1997 and 2002 I was a subbie for Evans Halshaw Jaguar/Aston Martin/Ferrari/Maserati in Birmingham.
This was parked in the valet bay for at least three months. Strange to think you'd get blase about seeing such a car, but I did !

was this the car clarkson drove on either top gear or one of his other shows in the late 90's? I remember him doing a test on one and im sure it was yellow with yellow wheels?

[Mark A]

I remember being a student in Coventry in the early 1990's and TWR had a show room/jaguar dealership on the edge of the city (now a Mazda dealer) with 2 of these in the showroom for a while, yellow (or orange) & Kermit Green.
The Le Mans 'winning' car was in there for a while as well.

Always used to love taking a trip past to see what they had next and the cars always looked stunning in XJ220S spec.

[LotusOmega375D]

My memory is that they were struggling to shift the last few standard cars, so TWR jazzed them up with more power and wild colours. I think a dealer handled most of them and they still hung around unsold with him for ages.

[M@1975]

New Batmobile? WANT!

[Bisonhead]

Pure sex! I think that is a bargain price as well. What a great looking car for the money. Want

[TaRD]

So much want.