Life with an XJ220

[RS_Phil]

Midway through a road trip to the Geneva Motorshow.

[illmonkey]

[Fast Bug]

I had the XJ220 game on Amiga too, autumn races had the worlds biggest leaves falling

RS_Phil said:

Midway through a road trip to the Geneva Motorshow.

Great photo

[stew-S160]

That has to be picture of the month?

[Krikkit]

stew-S160 said:

That has to be picture of the month?

Higher-res version would be nice if possible Phil, I'd love that as a desktop.

[RS_Phil]

So to appease everyones thoughts regarding old school supercars and unreliability etc. Myself and a bunch of friends decided to drive from the UK to Geneva to experience the motorshow. It's been a bit of an annual pilgrimage the past few years, however for one reason or another, the XJ220 hasn't joined the trip. This year was her year.

Long and short of it, I collected the car, met the gang in London and proceeded to drive from Central London to Geneva, via Spa, the Ring, Molsheim (pic) and into Geneva... and back. Not a peep, wiggle or wobble the whole trip. She was incredible on the motorways, engaging on the country roads and mighty everywhere else.

The perfect GT car for the week.

Edited by RS_Phil on Wednesday 22 March 15:12

[Grant20V]

Amazing

[Jonmx]

Excellent work! I'd planned on doing a similar Geneva trip in my MX5 but life got in the way.
A cracking thread OP and really refreshing to see an iconic car being enjoyed properly!

[marky911]

Amazing car and great thread!

I follow MrJWW on YouTube and it was great to see it appear on there for the Geneva trip. I hope you don't mind me leaving the links here. Not sure if YouTube links are still allowed are they? I'm a bit rusty on the forums now. Any problem from Phil or moderators then I'll delete them.

https://youtu.be/glkJ4zhtCBM

Car appears in this second video too but not much.

https://youtu.be/U29KYVyX8MY

Well done Phil, you have a nice life. Fair play to you.

[Riccardino]

What a beauty

Amazing that you also use it!!!

[Tickle]

Great work!

[kingkongsfinger]

Snow photo now my desk top. Previous desk top was the car in Wales. Superb photo indeed.

[patmahe]

I had two (main large) posters on my wall as a kid, one was a Bugatti EB110 and the other an XJ220.

The EB110 was brute force in a tiny shell.

The XJ220 was beauty and elegance and the stuff dreams it looked like it was in the outside lane of one of those speed bowls doing 200mph even when stationary.

I've bookmarked this thread for a proper read when I get the chance.

[F1GTRUeno]

RS_Phil said:

Midway through a road trip to the Geneva Motorshow.

Utter pornography right there.

Great to see one getting it's legs stretched around Europe.

[SpudLink]

RS_Phil said:

Midway through a road trip to the Geneva Motorshow.

Epic photo. Reminds me of EVO or Performance Car magazines at their best. A road trip to Geneva, with that photo on the front cover would have been a collector's item.

[McAndy]

Fantastic and, as others have said, a great snow photo!

As an aside, profile is not the Chiron's best angle!

Edited by McAndy on Friday 24th March 08:39

[godzilla84]

I remember buying my current Land Rover from a dealer in Knutsford who had a silver one of these in his show room along with a red F40. I was more excited about being able to touch my childhood poster cars than I was about buying my new car.

[RS_Phil]

Got lost... took a photo.

[McAndy]

Good of you to log it here; thanks.

[coopedup]