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  XJ220   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It was to use the best talents of Jaguar's design team, its racing technology that won at LeMans in 1988 and 1990, and the metal fabricators that built up bodies for the great Jaguar models of the past.
Jaguar had trouble selling all 275 cars built (yes, it was expensive) and a few new ones were sold at substantial discounts.
The contrast between the XJ220 and its prewar ancestor, the SS100, is dramatic.
www.seattlejagclub.org /XJ220.htm   (433 words)

  
 RapidCars.com: Jaguar XJ220   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It was designed by a group of Jaguar engineers who secretly got together on Saturdays with the goal to build the fastest car in the world.
When Jaguar found out about it, they were so impressed they put it in the 1988 Birmingham auto show.
Originally intended to be powered by a V12, Jaguar opted for a twin-turbo charged V6 which allowed a lower weight and smaller size.
www.rapidcars.com /xj220.php   (144 words)

  
 The Jaguar XJ220
The Jaguar XJ220 was originally just some engineer's sketches, but it quickly became a car.
Only 170 of these were built and at the time they were the fastest cars on the streets.
Not as nice in side as other jaguars, the manufacturers skimped out to lower the weight.
eat-my-dust.tripod.com /jaguar/jaguar.html   (57 words)

  
 jaguar-XJ-220   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jim Randle, Jaguar's chief engineer at the time, wanted to create the ultimate supercar and convinced several of the other engineers at Jaguar to help him make his dream reality.
The first XJ220 concept car made its debut at the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show and was received with overwhelming enthusiasm.
Jaguar intended the XJ220 to be a very limited edition car, producing only 350 cars from 1991-1994.
www.myautoworld.com /autos/jaguar/jaguar-XJ-220/jaguar-xj-220.html   (583 words)

  
 Classic Cars Page
The Jaguar, followed the British tradition (and further defined this tradition), was more powerful and elegant than its German rival, while the Porsche had better handling and stronger brakes (sadly, Jaguar's drum brakes were not up to its job).
Their idea was a car powered by a V12 as Jaguar's tradition, but with advanced 4-valves heads and a full 6 litres of capacity so that target power output was set as high as 500 hp.
As a result, Jaguar found it difficult to sell the production run of 350 cars, especially the price was set at a sky-high 475,000 pounds, which was four times of a Lamboghini Diablo and twice the price of Bugatti EB110.
www.autozine.org /classic/jaguar.htm   (1651 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ8 - Jaguar XJ
Jaguar XJ8 - Jaguar XJ Jaguar XJ Overview
The Jaguar XJ is a saloon produced by Jaguar, launched in 1968.
This was the first supercharged Jaguar in the company's history and only the second car Jaguar ever made that used forced induction-apart from the extremely rare and expensive Jaguar XJ220.
www.jaguar-xj8.com   (1816 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220 on fastest cars database
The XJ220 first appeared at the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show.The original XJ220 concept featured a V12, unlike the twin-turbo V6 that was in the production car.
XJ220 a Saturday afternoon project that blossomed into one of the fastest road cars ever.
It was replaced with a Tom Walkinshaw -developed 3.5 L V6 based on the engine used in the Rover Metro 6R4 rally car and fitted with twin- turbochargers, generating 549 bhp of maximum power at 7000 RPM and 473 ft·lbf of torque at 4500 RPM.
www.fastestcar.net /xj220.php   (514 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220 - Ford, Jaguar & Aston Martin, Concepts & Supercars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The XJ220 was first shown at a Salon in Birmingham in 1988.
Jaguar Sports was given the assignment to research the possibilities of a production-model.
The XJ220 doesn’t brake away, although there are about 550 growling hp transferred to the rear wheels.
supercars.ifn.cx /xj220/index.php   (886 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
At this time, Jaguar didn't even know that there were people making a really fast, hold-nothing-back sports car.
When Jaguar found out, their excitment went over-board and they demanded that this car be put in the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show.
Once the fasted car of its time, the Jaguar XJ220 will go done in history as one of the most desirable cars of all time.
www-atdp.berkeley.edu /9931/dfan/xj220.html   (139 words)

  
 autoclassic.com :: the history of classic cars : 1989 Jaguar XJ220
With the exception of the McLaren F1, the mid/rear-engined Jaguar XJ220 was the fastest and most practical of all.
The ‘Walkinshaw’ XJ220 was shown a year later, this time significantly smaller than before, with a twin-turbo V6 engine of the type being used in current Jaguar racing sports cars, and only with rear drive.
Even though the XJ220 was tested at 213 mph, and everyone seemed to love its styling and general behaviour, Jaguar could do nothing about the general collapse in economic confidence in the early 1990s.
www.autoclassic.com /features/classic_car_history/jaguar_xj220.html   (563 words)

  
 Sports Vehicle Encyclopedia: Jaguar XJ220
The Jaguar XJ220 supercar is not quite as super as it was originally intended.
The car was previewed in 1988 as a groundbreaking 48 valve, V12, 4-wheel drive dream car capable of 220 miles an hour, hence the name.
But unforeseen financial and development problems meant that the delayed production XJ220 was powered by a V6 driving the rear wheels, and it was 'only' capable of 213 mph, so really it should be called the XJ213.
www.diseno-art.com /encyclopedia/vehicles/road/cars/jaguar_xj220.html   (92 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220 information, specifications, history, and images.
There are very few production cars that can claim to be have been born out of a spare-time project, but the Jaguar XJ220 is the most famous of all.
Jaguars chief engineer, Jim Randle, dreamt up the idea of creating the ultimate supercar on Christmas and fired up enough enthusiasm with colleagues to start a 'Saturday club' to work on the project.
The prototype XJ220 was an immense beast, mainly because it had to be accomodated around TWR racing components and Jaguars massive V-Twelve engine mounted in a central position.
www.conceptcarz.com /vehicle/z518/Jaguar_XJ220/default.aspx   (462 words)

  
 Jaguar XJR-15 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jaguar XJR-15 is a rare supercar produced by Jaguar.
Because of its V12 engine, power-hungry buyers saw the XJR-15 as an attractive alternative to the Jaguar XJ220, which was powered by a twin turbo V6.
While Jaguar never exported the XJR-15 out of Europe, at least three are known to have made their way to the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaguar_XJR-15   (480 words)

  
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Jaguar XJ220 is the latest entry into the crowded Amiga driving game market.
The Jaguar steers quite well with the joystick (mouse control is also available, though no analog joystick.) Your computer opponents are not the dumb, predictably perfect, always-finishing-in-the- same-order opponents seen in other games.
If you stick the Jaguar Disk 1 into the machine and switch on, Jaguar XJ220 takes control before the computer has a chance to load Kickstart, and then trips and falls on its face.
www.cucug.org /amiga/amiinfo/reviews/JaguarXJ220.txt   (1238 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220 - februarys' car of the month - car audio - ben-tullett.com
Before the introduction of the McLaren F1, the XJ220 was the fastest car in the world.
This is beautifully designed car but difficult to drive, the XJ220 retains all the amenities usually associated with a Jaguar and is the finest true GT in the world.
Only 280 of these remarkable hand-built vehicles have been produced, making the XJ220 extremely attractive to the enthusiastic buyer, but it's worth nothing to the unadulterated power of this magnificent machine.
www.ben-tullett.com /caraudio/jaguar-xj220.html   (297 words)

  
 Carpages.ca - 2003 Jaguar Fuore XF10 Concept
Now that Jaguar is seeing some relative success with its Formula 1 program, or at least it's not fighting it out with the back markers as much as it did last season, the premise of a new supercar is at the very least feasible.
Wearing the Jaguar badge means that comfort is paramount, but not at the expense of optimal support.
Whether Jaguar does something as 'outside the box' as this Fuore concept, or goes the safer, and probably more intelligent route of a classically proportioned supercar, it's exciting to consider the prospects.
www.carpages.ca /go/conceptcars/2003_jaguar_fuore_xf10_concept.aspx   (1060 words)

  
 The Jaguar XJ220   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The 1993 Jaguar XJ220 made it's American television debut that summer in a made-for-television race series called "Fast Masters", which was lovingly dubbed "Crash Masters" by appalled sportscar lovers.
Equipped with a 3-1/2L twin turbo V6, taken from the TWR Jaguar XJR-10 IMSA sprint-race prototype race car, these cars were legitimate 210mph cars in the hands of professionals.
One endurance race-prepared XJ220 won it's class at the 24 Hours of LeMans before a technical disqualification took away their hard-fought win.
www.ktsmotorsportsgarage.com /quiz/quiz11.html   (208 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220S Supercar - Features - European Car Magazine
The XJ220 concept car made its debut at the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show, and general response from the industry and public alike was very encouraging.
That's a lot of power, but prospective XJ220 customers, many of whom had already dropped the equivalent of a hundred grand USD to be placed on the waiting list (the XJ220's initial cost was around #340,000), felt betrayed by the changes.
As these words are written, the titanium car is being shown at Rusnak Jaguar in Pasadena, Calif., in a cordoned section of the dealership's showroom floor.
www.europeancarweb.com /features/0505ec_xj220s/index.html   (1041 words)

  
 Gone In Sixty Seconds Movie Mistake : Jaguar XJ220
Like 5 or 10 minutes later Sway pulls up in the same Jaguar XJ220 that drove by the docks earlier, when she was stealing the old pink Chevy, and reports it in as Bernadine.
Later she brings the jaguar xj 220 (bernadene) to the yard.
The XJ220 is the car that Sway and Memphis steal while the couple is having sex.
www.slipups.com /items/9146.html   (658 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | Rare Jaguar sells for £105,000
The Jaguar XJ220 had just 111 miles on the clock when it was rolled in to its hidden lock-up at Marlborough Carpets in Cardiff in June 1993.
The Jaguar, with a top speed of 200mph, was up for sale at auction as the main asset of the liquidated firm.
The XJ220 made its debut as a concept car at the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show,and later went into production in 1991 when Jaguar Sport created the purpose-built factory in Bloxham near Oxford.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/3005938.stm   (280 words)

  
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Было принято решение о выпуске малой партии (около 350 штук) XJ220, причем двигатель V12 был заменен на 6-цилиндровый объемом 3,5 л.
приводили только задние колеса и разгоняли XJ220 до 210 миль/час.
Jaguar отказывается от алюминиевого кузова нового S-Type в пользу более традиционной конструкции.
www.jaguar-auto.ru   (366 words)

  
 1994 Jaguar XJ220 Serial Number 220628 - main page
We are pleased to offer the best XJ220 Jaguar in the U.S. 1994 XJ220 s/n 220628 is one of fourteen XJ220s kept by the Jaguar Factory as new cars and was delivered to its first owner, Gary Bartlett, as a “new” car in 1999.
XJ220 s/n 220628 is the only Jaguar XJ220 to have its U.S. certification work done by Jaguar’s Whitley Engineering Center in Coventry and so has none of the under hood heat and overheating catalyst problems common to these cars.
Jaguar XJ220 s/n 220628 was featured on the cover of Autoweek magazine, January 08, 2001 and won the Grand Marshall’s Trophy at the Ault Park Concours d’Elegance, June 9, 2002.
www.ferraris-online.com /pages/carintro.php?reqcardir=JA-XJ220-220628   (233 words)

  
 Jaguar Magazine - For Lovers Of Jaguar Cars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Jaguar National Rally is the highlight of the enthusiast’s year, and this year it was staged at Noosa on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.
Jaguar sets its goals for the next 10 years with Mark Webber as its centrepiece.
A Jaguar XJ220 and XJR15 are in Melbourne and only minutes apart.
www.jaguarmagazine.com /issue110/thisissue.htm   (219 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220 - Classic Driver - MAGAZINE - classic car of the week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With a 0-60mph time under 4 seconds and a top speed well in excess of 200mph, the XJ220 was quicker, sleeker and — at £403,000 - more expensive than any of its supposed rivals.
Ford took over Jaguar in 1989 and in January 1990, when the prestige market was riding the crest of a wave, £50,000 deposits were invited on a forthcoming supercar — originally intended to be a 4-wheel drive V12.
This suggested that by the time of delivery, scheduled for 1992, the car would carry a price tag of around £400,000.
www.classicdriver.de /uk/magazine/3400.asp?id=11445   (298 words)

  
 1993 Jaguar XJ220 Comments - Carsurvey.org
Since then you have added another 161687 to it (we are still talking about a Jaguar XJ220).
Jaguar is one of my favorite car makers.
Jaguar didn't provide the car people thought they had ordered and many customers declined to buy them, prompting Jaguar to sue them.
www.carsurvey.org /viewcomments_review_35353.html   (836 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220
The story behind the XJ220 is an inspiring one yet a sad one too.
Together with colleagues in the 'Saturday Club' at Jaguar they toyed with the idea on an unofficial basis until Jaguar started getting excited by the idea properly and official plans were put in place to build what was to be the fastest ever road car.
The original idea was to use a TWR developed V12 inspired by Jaguar's racing successes but financial constraints forced the team to use a V6 unit and to drop the four wheel drive.
www.pistonheads.com /milestones/xj220.htm   (577 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220 by Detail Cars
The Italian GT Cup was one of the stronger regional championships, and it boasted Ferrari F40's, the ususal Porsches, and yes, a Jaguar.
One of the TWR XJ220C's (#51) was the first retirement, on lap 6, with a blown head gasket.
The TWR Jaguar had decided to enter their car as being prepared to IMSA's GT specifications.
diecastsportscar.com /detail_jag.html   (520 words)

  
 Jaguar XJ220 S TWR - Supercars.net
If the Jaguar XJ220 was the fastest production car in the mid nineties, then the TWR supercar made from the LeMans race version had to be astonishing.
In January of 1993, Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) and Jaguar Sport launched the XJ220C to compete in the GT class (Group N) of FIA motor sport.
Although the standard XJ220 was clothed in a lightweight aluminum body, TWR's version replaced every panel, expect the doors, with carbon fiber.
www.supercars.net /cars/880.html   (316 words)

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