RE: Jaguar XJ220 - the inside story

[LongLiveTazio]

RufMD: wow.

[GTRene]

normally not such a fan of the XJ220, but the S versions and especially that orange one is fantastic, that lightweight and power and way better front, normally with "standard" XJ220 the front hood almost seems to blow of at speed, remembering seeing a video when they tested top speed and seeing that front bonnet moving scarily...
The S front does not have that type hood.

[jhoneyball]

There was a fabulous large format hardbound slipcover book all about the 220. Goes for truly stupid amounts of money these days. I guard my copy jealously :-)

[FWDRacer]

RufMD said:

Edited by RufMD on Thursday 9th August 08:11

If you are going to get one - it might as well be in Bright F-off Orange

Great colour scheme by the way

[rev-erend]

I've always loved the XJ220 .. especially one I saw in a mag in bright yellow

Shame the Le Mans win was taken away on a technicality

Edited by rev-erend on Thursday 9th August 12:25

[sisu]

I never liked the XJ220, still don't.
The path they took with the TWR V6 turbo GT/lemans racing theme was a bit like a woman telling you the piercing in her tounge *helpths fellathilto* when I have yet to recieve an improved bj due to this piece of metal.




I mean a mid-mounted in-line 6.2ltr V12 would never have worked and never sold well anyway.

[Dave200]

300bhp/ton said:

You've not seen Top Gear then?

Could you possibly just try a few posts among your 100+/day that don't make you sound like you're trying to be cleverer than the guy you're replying to?

The truth is that you sound like the bloke in the pub who is constantly trying to prove everyone wrong, and to 'demonstrate' how much he knows. No idea whether this is the case, or whether you're just one of those 'super-keen' guys that feels like he always has the most relevant point to make.

Given the sheer volume of posts you contribute to this forum, it's very difficult to screen your contributions - can you at least try to make them feel a little less like squirting lemon juice in my eyes?

[Dave200]

RufMD said:

That view is the stuff that dreams are made of. Good man.

While some of those wouldn't make it into my particular 'lottery garage', I have the utmost respect for anyone who has worked hard enough to make their own interpretation a reality.

[300bhp/ton]

Dave200 said:

Could you possibly just try a few posts among your 100+/day that don't make you sound like you're trying to be cleverer than the guy you're replying to?

The truth is that you sound like the bloke in the pub who is constantly trying to prove everyone wrong, and to 'demonstrate' how much he knows. No idea whether this is the case, or whether you're just one of those 'super-keen' guys that feels like he always has the most relevant point to make.

Given the sheer volume of posts you contribute to this forum, it's very difficult to screen your contributions - can you at least try to make them feel a little less like squirting lemon juice in my eyes?

Ok then, here's a deal. How about everytime you visit PH you don't quote one of my comments and add some sort of snide remark as though you are a school yard bully? Does that sound fair?

[ArthurDaley]

Any chance of having the concept car shot as pic of the week?

[durbster]

Great story. Somehow the car carries a sense of the dedication and passion that went into it. Whenever I look at it I think of those guys working stupid hours to make it happen simply because they wanted it to happen.

Bill Carr said:

Anyone remember the Jaguar XJ220 game on the Amiga? I played that to death back in the day. Probably the closest I'll ever get to ownership but nevermind!
http://www.lemonamiga.com/reviews/view.php?id=118

Yes!

I think this car was my first love. I was obsessed with it and played the game endlessly. The intro with the Jag slowly rolling onto the screen was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

RufMD said:

What a timely story ! I just acquired one of the 5 XJ220 "S" models, #220779, Orange with black wheels, came of the transporter last night.

You are officially my new best friend.

[AllNines]

lambo_xx said:

I bought my XJ220 last year and absolutely love it. I looked at one that Oakfields were selling and let me just put it this way, Pistonheads "naming and shaming" policy prohibits me from expressing my feelings and experience with Oakfields! Needless to say I didn't buy from them and certainly wouldn’t in the future!

I've bought a couple of cars from Oakfields and had great experiences on both occasions. Back in '99 they had XJ220s and F40s for similar prices (the Jags were unregistered); values now are a little different!

[James1972]

gary71 said:

annodomini2 said:

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?t=3...

One of the previous discussions about it.

I used to work at TWR and this van was parked up on the Kidlington site for several years after the XJ220 development was finished. At the time it still had a standard Transit front suspension and wheels, which must have made it quite interesting...

Saw this at GFoS and talked to the man looking after it and he said it was built from one of the development cars (mules?) that had been crashed and the remains passed to a certain Jag group C driver out of the side gate as it were. This makes more sense to me than building it up as a test mule ? Noticed the Std Transit front suspension as well - scary.

[Monty Zoomer]

There's an old Top Gear feature here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2Ed-rnPOY

It's from the days when they used to film it properly, with none of that psychotic flickering about that they get nowadays, so it's well worth watching.

[Dave200]

300bhp/ton said:

Dave200 said:

Could you possibly just try a few posts among your 100+/day that don't make you sound like you're trying to be cleverer than the guy you're replying to?

The truth is that you sound like the bloke in the pub who is constantly trying to prove everyone wrong, and to 'demonstrate' how much he knows. No idea whether this is the case, or whether you're just one of those 'super-keen' guys that feels like he always has the most relevant point to make.

Given the sheer volume of posts you contribute to this forum, it's very difficult to screen your contributions - can you at least try to make them feel a little less like squirting lemon juice in my eyes?

Ok then, here's a deal. How about everytime you visit PH you don't quote one of my comments and add some sort of snide remark as though you are a school yard bully? Does that sound fair?

The only reason that I quote you is because I want you to see how you sound. Some of the stuff you reply is immensely patronising, invariably 'I know better', and largely dismissive.

It's one thing for me to "bully" you by highlighting this ridiculous 'personality'. But it's another thing entirely to virtually flood sections of the board with these kinds of posts, and to completely derail threads in a manner which screams "EVERYONE LOOK AT ME. I KNOW FAR BETTER THAN YOU."

I'll happily make a deal that I will stop quoting your posts and 'spoiling' threads (hypocrite, right?) - but only if I can come to PH without the overbearing dread that your particular brand of patronising posting will be clogging up the majority of threads on the first pages of General Gassing.
Deal?

[moe]

thomson said:

A local guy had one brand new back in the day, sounded like a right bag of spanners.Amazing looking thing though.The same man had a brand new 456gt, 1st week of ownership, took it to see his mate who owns a local restaurant on a busy high street, pulls up outside feeling the dogs bo!!ocks, forgets to check if anything is coming and an old dear test driving a metro takes the door clean off!!
He fecked off pretty sharpish, letting the recovery truck deal with it, priceless.

Did he at least go onto Visocchi's for his ice cream?

[GTIR]

I visited TWR in Kidlington, Oxon a while back, to deliver water cooler bottles, and they had three in the workshop. They built the V6 there so the floor was full of V6's waiting to shipped out!
They also had the Aston Martin V8's kicking around.

They were a bit touchy about me wondering around but they couldn't follow me whilst I delivered the bottles so left me to it. I was there for two hours wondering around. It was ace!

They also had the Transit mule van that had the V6 engine in the back in the workshop. It's still doing track days, complete with ladder and a copy of The Sun on the dash.

Beautiful car.

[SteveO220]

It's also excellent for heel-and-toe work.

[Lastinclass]

I love the XJ220, have done since I first saw one.
I have the full set of minichamps 1:43 scale models. I ordered a special edition Snap on toolbox with the XJ220 graphic on the lid back in 95 or 96. It arrived, I couldn't wait to get it off the lorry..... imagine my dissapointment when it was uncovered and I could see the crate and the packaging had major damage!! Unpacking revealed that the box was completely unuseable, I was completely gutted. Snap On couldn't supply another as it was the last one in the UK..
I worked on a couple back in the mid late nineties when I worked in the local Jaguar dealership.

Imagine my delight yesterday when a lovely silver XJ220 roles up for an MOT at the garage I now work in..... Even better when a friend of the owners turned up to pick him up in a Dino 246 GT...
As an aside we had a Mk1 Capri 3 litre GT in today.....

[DonkeyApple]

SteveO220 said:

It's also excellent for heel-and-toe work.

Although, with the F1 her friend could join in.