Jaguar XJR-15: the forgotten supercar for sale

Posted on 18-02-2016 at 23:02 by Dizono – 55 Comments”

Think of a Jaguar-supercar and you think of the XJ220. Rightly so, because a blood-curdling beautiful and insanely fast car. Still earns this XJR-15 more than the verdomhoekje where they are now.

Only three times earlier, it was the XJR 15 for the past eleven years on Autoblog on bid and that is very little for an outright supercar. We may use the Jag also quiet multitude in the row of the Cizeta Moroder, Mosler MT900 and the Nissan R-390. That last is what I call not for nothing, this thoroughbred sports car of which only two straatlegale copies were built, shares the cockpit, windows and roof with the Jaguar.

Between 1990 and 1992 built Jaguar exactly 53 copies. Really strange, it was a period in which the XJ220 as a concept was shown, but that development was in 1992 in production. Initially, with V12, but it was a twinturbo V6. In the engine compartment of the XJR-15 is still one of the twaalfcilinder, just like the rest of the car is derived from the XJR-9 Group C race car which Jan Lammers in 1988, the 24 hours of Le Mans managed to win.

The lifting block came from a Group C racer, but the head came from the Group of A-car. This increased the capacity by a litre to 5993cc. Good for about 450 hp and a top speed of 305 kilometers per hour. A topsnelheidheid which, incidentally, was constrained by the gear and not by the air resistance. Good work so of messrs Southgate and Stevens, who were responsible for the aalgladde carriage. The latter would shortly after the signs of the XJR-15 also McLaren leave, to the F1 on paper.

At this moment, Germany is one of the 53 ever built is on sale for 1.2 million euros. An amount that he probably will not sell since it is about nine tonnes more than you aderhalf years back for a XJR-15 paid. It is so big that bubble is now not… The Jag is not in a or other elegant toko to purchase, but is just on the just popped by the current owner. So we see the huge Jag in a seemingly what tight garage on a Persian rug parked, where he company of a bright red Lamborghini Countach 25 Anniversario. Clearly a lover.

Gallery: Jaguar XJR-15.

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