RE: POTW: Jag XJS at Goodwood
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That video is one of the reasons why I race a V12 XJS, it always puts a smile on my face.
Here's my footage from the last race at Snetterton last year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlP-iEDTbo&feature=g-...
Here's my footage from the last race at Snetterton last year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlP-iEDTbo&feature=g-...
Edited by xjsracer44 on Sunday 18th March 21:51
I was 2 when my family moved to Bathurst in 1984. Have live with Mt Panorama most of my life and this is 100% the best noise to ever grace the mount.
The current V8 Supercars with their 5ltr OHV pushrod engines have a good noise but are so far from the cars they copy. For instance there are no panels or parts on the V8 Supercars that can be transplanted onto a standard car.
That V12 is simply awesome and it's a massive shame that Holden and Ford whined about losing to Ford Sierra's, Nissan Skyline R32's, E30 M3's and even a Volvo 242 Turbo in 1986 and then started the AVESCO(Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company) and moved from Group A to a frankensteined three class championship with Turbo's excluded to make sure that the Australian-produced 5.0 litre V8 engined(both US delivered) Fords and Holdens were the fastest cars on the track.
And thus today we have the farce that is the V8 Supercars. Ironically in the recent 12hour Bathurst race the GT3 cars(Ferrari 458 GT3) had faster race times than the V8's qualifying times.
The current V8 Supercars with their 5ltr OHV pushrod engines have a good noise but are so far from the cars they copy. For instance there are no panels or parts on the V8 Supercars that can be transplanted onto a standard car.
That V12 is simply awesome and it's a massive shame that Holden and Ford whined about losing to Ford Sierra's, Nissan Skyline R32's, E30 M3's and even a Volvo 242 Turbo in 1986 and then started the AVESCO(Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company) and moved from Group A to a frankensteined three class championship with Turbo's excluded to make sure that the Australian-produced 5.0 litre V8 engined(both US delivered) Fords and Holdens were the fastest cars on the track.
And thus today we have the farce that is the V8 Supercars. Ironically in the recent 12hour Bathurst race the GT3 cars(Ferrari 458 GT3) had faster race times than the V8's qualifying times.
xjsracer44 said:
That video is one of the reasons why I race a V12 XJS, it always puts a smile on my face.
Here's my footage from the last race at Snetterton last year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlP-iEDTbo&feature=g-...
Start was a bit close. have you counted yuour doorhandles since? Here's my footage from the last race at Snetterton last year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlP-iEDTbo&feature=g-...
Edited by xjsracer44 on Sunday 18th March 21:51
Walkinshaw was a motorsport great. His later years in F1 didn;t finish too well, but IMHO he was hugely influential and admirable and that Bathurst in car was epic stuff. I'm sure I read once that TW said he'd get through a pair of boots every race with teh XJS V12 because the left boot used to melt from the exhaust heat radiating through the floor.
PokiGTA said:
I was 2 when my family moved to Bathurst in 1984. Have live with Mt Panorama most of my life and this is 100% the best noise to ever grace the mount.
The current V8 Supercars with their 5ltr OHV pushrod engines have a good noise but are so far from the cars they copy. For instance there are no panels or parts on the V8 Supercars that can be transplanted onto a standard car.
That V12 is simply awesome and it's a massive shame that Holden and Ford whined about losing to Ford Sierra's, Nissan Skyline R32's, E30 M3's and even a Volvo 242 Turbo in 1986 and then started the AVESCO(Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company) and moved from Group A to a frankensteined three class championship with Turbo's excluded to make sure that the Australian-produced 5.0 litre V8 engined(both US delivered) Fords and Holdens were the fastest cars on the track.
And thus today we have the farce that is the V8 Supercars. Ironically in the recent 12hour Bathurst race the GT3 cars(Ferrari 458 GT3) had faster race times than the V8's qualifying times.
Guess who just volunenteered themselves to be the ph hotel for the Bathurst 1000 The current V8 Supercars with their 5ltr OHV pushrod engines have a good noise but are so far from the cars they copy. For instance there are no panels or parts on the V8 Supercars that can be transplanted onto a standard car.
That V12 is simply awesome and it's a massive shame that Holden and Ford whined about losing to Ford Sierra's, Nissan Skyline R32's, E30 M3's and even a Volvo 242 Turbo in 1986 and then started the AVESCO(Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company) and moved from Group A to a frankensteined three class championship with Turbo's excluded to make sure that the Australian-produced 5.0 litre V8 engined(both US delivered) Fords and Holdens were the fastest cars on the track.
And thus today we have the farce that is the V8 Supercars. Ironically in the recent 12hour Bathurst race the GT3 cars(Ferrari 458 GT3) had faster race times than the V8's qualifying times.
Hullo folks, I have a 1996 XJS convertible 4.0 as my daily driver (I don't commute but drive 15,000 miles a year). Mine is last year and month of production and though a "standard" 4.0 automatic, it was prepared and sold by TWR cars in Oxfordshire.
It has all the toys my Jaguar x-type 3.0 AWD has, including 245 bhp. In an XJS for the road that's plenty. I'm not mean with the unleaded and the XJS gets 20mpg to the x-type's 23mpg, so no great loss there.
Four seats, just. Huge boot. Convertible that doesn't leak and isn't noisy. I went out in a friend's XK8 recently and it is nowhere near as luxurious inside as the XJS and felt damp.
Driving experience is of an old, big engined, rear wheel drive car. I have never sliped and slided as much as my first few weeks of ownership and it was uncanny after the x-type which just twitches occasionally.
I love it, Robert
It has all the toys my Jaguar x-type 3.0 AWD has, including 245 bhp. In an XJS for the road that's plenty. I'm not mean with the unleaded and the XJS gets 20mpg to the x-type's 23mpg, so no great loss there.
Four seats, just. Huge boot. Convertible that doesn't leak and isn't noisy. I went out in a friend's XK8 recently and it is nowhere near as luxurious inside as the XJS and felt damp.
Driving experience is of an old, big engined, rear wheel drive car. I have never sliped and slided as much as my first few weeks of ownership and it was uncanny after the x-type which just twitches occasionally.
I love it, Robert
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