RE: Jaguar XJ220-C Le Mans car for sale

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Great to see the #52 car hitting the market.

I recall Silverstone Classic in 2017 and the XJ220 anniversary display, this car was joined by #50 and #53. It was great to see them all out together.











Regards

Tim

[AKjr]

That's awesome and I bet that it was quite the sound, them all running out like that.......

[pSyCoSiS]

What. A. Machine.

[Scrimper]

This car sold for €826k at an RM auction in Nov 2021 which makes the current asking price look a bit optimistic.

[Matt_T]

Am I correct that the engine in these is the V64V from the Metro 6R4?

[gruppeb86]

I've been looking for something to do some motorway miles.

[gruppeb86]

WPA said:

LotusOmega375D said:

#Thousands of parts for millions of cars, Unipart#

What happened to Unipart?

Looks like they are still going: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipart

I in fact deal with Unipart, otherwise known as UTL. Quite a big distribution company.

[Bright Halo]

What a thing of beauty!
Can you imagine turning to a track day with that?

[nismo48]

Cryssys said:

How refreshing to see an actual price rather than POA. I now know how many of my children I will have to sell in order to be able to afford it rather than just guessing.

+1

[jm28]

WolvesWill said:

I had a metal pencil tin of this exact car (same livery) when I was in secondary school. Later replaced by a tin of Fina livery Mclaren F1 race car.

For me, my favourite era of Le Man's race cars. What an awesome thing.

Yeah me too. Still have them in fact! Plus the gulf McLaren.

[asci.white]

Matt_T said:

Am I correct that the engine in these is the V64V from the Metro 6R4?

That was just the base engine. They made significant alterations to create the Jaguar/TWR JV6

[MBVitoria]

WolvesWill said:

I had a metal pencil tin of this exact car (same livery) when I was in secondary school. Later replaced by a tin of Fina livery Mclaren F1 race car.

For me, my favourite era of Le Man's race cars. What an awesome thing.

Me too, was ace!

[British Beef]

Bright Halo said:

What a thing of beauty!
Can you imagine turning to a track day with that?

With a full support team and pit crew....... Fly in by chopper, take a few laps, probably stack it as not a race driver, then chopper back to private yacht is how it would work in my dream world.

[jl34]

smilo996 said:

Although the prototypes for that engine were the veneralble Rover V8 with 2 cylinders sawn off, the resulting engine has done done pretty heavy lifting. Although the Don Law V12 conversion looks more impressive, the fact these cars made it to 220mph and Le Mans is pretty impressive. Although not the classic Silk Cut reserved fo the "other" Le Mans Jaguars, it does look great. Just a shame the XJ220 was built in a recenssion and this seems to have influenced the confidence to push on with the CX-75 which was also epic.

thats not correct. The rover v8 sawn off was used to create the original metro 6r4 engine protototpye which doesnty have anything in common with the V64V in the 6R4 or indeed the JV6 developed for this car.

[Krikkit]

As mentioned, this car was in Japan with a certain owner who really liked to use it, this is one of my favourite videos.

[YorkshirePudding]

Krikkit said:

As mentioned, this car was in Japan with a certain owner who really liked to use it, this is one of my favourite videos.

Love the disclaimer at the start, we didn't really go blasting down the motorway at 300kmh,

[Hammersia]

A rare example where the road cars look better than the racecars IMHO. I maybe in a minority on that one.

[Tim.C]

I reckon I could get that through IVA...

[Patrick1964]

bristolracer said:

Article said

catastrophic tyre failure on the Mulsanne

Being driven at the time by a young chap called Adreas Fuchs, if I recall correctly. Poor lad was the rather scared victim of a pushy dad, and didn't want to be there really, or at least that was my impression. I hope he's gone on to better things.

[British Beef]

Dorset_Driver said:

Considering what other similar era stuff makes, that is a total bargain!

Absolutely agree.

One of the best looking road and race cars ever made in any era as a bonus.