RE: Jaguar XJ220 S: You Know You Want To

[Rako]

Blimey that ad is one my local Councillors cars! Always used to spit my coffee out when he made a big fuss in the local press about the new speed limit he claimed he'd introduced. It was always lower than the previous one!!!!!

[D200]

This car has amazing performance figures - if they are indeed accurate - 1052kg and 0-60 in 2.7. [in a manual RWD heavily turbo’d car]

Goes to show you the super car performance hasn’t moved on that much considering this is 25 years old and is a relatively simple and small cc engine with just a pair of big turbo’s

Looks stunning too.

Could you imagine seeing that on the road - it would make even a 918, Veyron, P1 or LaF etc look tame in comparison!

[mx-6]

D200 said:

This car has amazing performance figures - if they are indeed accurate - 1052kg and 0-60 in 2.7. [in a manual RWD heavily turbo’d car]

Goes to show you the super car performance hasn’t moved on that much considering this is 25 years old and is a relatively simple and small cc engine with just a pair of big turbo’s.

Yeah the TWR version has crazy numbers for the '90's doesn't it, with that weight and 680 horse there would still be little that could live with it, in a straight line at least. I guess the gearing is tall enough to get to 60mph in first hence the ballistic time...

[Vroom101]

From the advert...

"The following items are available for separate purchase:
Set of original XJ220 wheels with tyres. Original low rear spoiler. Original rear venture. Original radio. Interior cabin fitted leather luggage. Custom leather fitted boot suitcase. John Porter XJ220 book. Full set of workshop and service manuals. Original posters and brochures. Personalised number plate – 22 OJ. Colour-coded Carcoon Veloce."

I reckon it's a stunning car, but think the dealer is taking the piss chancing his arm, when he's asking extra for these items.

Edited by Vroom101 on Tuesday 21st March 18:28

[JohnWalker43]

Heard this thing at Goodwood circuit. It didn't pass the noise regulations!

[geeks]

I have had an obsession with the XJ220 since I was a kid and still do, one day!

[Jonmx]

I love the XJ220, I think I'm in the small club of people who'd have one over an F40.
An old boy I know used to have one of these (cousin of the XJ220) tucked away in his garage along with a few other tasty toys. XJR15, they seem to be going for around the £400k mark too.

[loose cannon]

Having watched the lampreys farm turn into the factory to build these cars,
And having the pleasure of watching them sometimes go past my grandads house in bloxham including that transit van
I have wanted 1 ever since

[autofocus]

Hi there,

OK time to put the anorak on. The car for sale is NOT an XJ220S !
Its a modified XJ220 which has over the years gone from a standard car to an S replica.

The original S is this car photographed by me a few years ago outside the old Don Law garage in Stoke on Trent



A couple of clues between the one in this article and the original
1) side rubbing strips
2) look at the bonnet catch just behind the front wheel, you can see its missing on the S replica



I would say the wheel colour as well but the factory 220S has had black wheels as well over the years.

Pretty sure that should an original S ever come to market it will be north of £1m at least.

Heres another pic taken on the same day as the S photo just because its nice to share



And one from another of my visits



Regards

Tim

[Vipers]

Saw an XJ220 last week being driven near Banchory near Aberdeen, first ever since I saw it at the Birmingham car show in 88.

[405dogvan]

Definately not an original 'S' - if nothing else, the steering wheel is wrong (S's had a non-airbag TWR item)

The original S was a mind-bending thing - the XJ220 always looked heavy but it's 1440kgs would be considered light these days (and it was 200kgs less than the V12 concept!!) - the S was 1050Kgs tho which is INSANE levels of weight loss (over 400kgs just by taking stuff out and replacing metal with composites is hard to believe!?)

Anyway - this is an interesting car but not really a £400K one IMO

[ChemicalChaos]

Crikey, they just parallel park a row of 220s on the street?!

[Vipers]

ChemicalChaos said:

Crikey, they just parallel park a row of 220s on the street?!

Yup! All on the kerb, one for the "Bad parking thread".

[PurpleAki]

So if this is a replica, what's it's true worth?

[DonkeyApple]

WCZ said:

funny how no one cared about these when they were £140k

They were well under that. In talks they went under £80k and I should have bought one. They just wanted shot of them at the end.

[SebringMan]

Hairymonster said:

Love those gauges built into the driver's door.

Shouldn't the rocker-box covers say 'Austin Metro'? :-)

Or Rover, or Buick! From what I understand the engine in the 6R4 was based on the Rover V8, albeit one with two cylinders lopped off and many modifications carried out elsewhere. The Jaguar Engine developed this even further .

Back on topic....

While I prefer the sleek lines of the XJ I think the XJ220 S is what I would have. It's the car it should have been from the off.

It was never really much of a luxury hypercar, but basically a race car with a nice suit on. As such I understand they can be recalcitrant things to drive and unnerving at times.

In the S specification I reckon it is the car harking back to its roots. Dare I say it, it may not have been quite the flop it was in this guise .

Yup, it's a lottery win car for me .

[QuickQuack]

Oh, how much I have lusted after an XJ220 since my early teens in late 80s... Dream garage would be an XJ220 next to an E-Type (S1 V12, OTS or FHC, ideally one of each).

[Paddymcc]

Wasn't there a story a few years back about someone doing building work on a warehouse, knocking down some walls, uncovered a xj220?

[Coatesy351]

SebringMan said:

Hairymonster said:

Love those gauges built into the driver's door.

Shouldn't the rocker-box covers say 'Austin Metro'? :-)

Or Rover, or Buick! From what I understand the engine in the 6R4 was based on the Rover V8, albeit one with two cylinders lopped off and many modifications carried out elsewhere. The Jaguar Engine developed this even further .

The engines in the development cars were based on the rover v8



The proper metro v64v engine is a clean sheet design by ex-Cosworth employee David Wood which may explain why the top end looks very DFV like.

[pSyCoSiS]

One of my all time dream cars.

I'd be happy with a non-s model in silver.

Proper mechanical engineering.