{"id":95988,"date":"2022-04-08T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/30-years-of-jaguar-xj220\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T08:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T08:41:17","slug":"30-years-of-jaguar-xj220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/30-years-of-jaguar-xj220\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Jaguar XJ220"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It could have been a huge success, but thanks to a financial crisis and a board decision that wasn’t understood by many buyers, the Jaguar XJ220 never achieved the unit sales that were expected. It was 30 years ago that this supercar came onto the market. After 280 units, production was ended. Slowly but surely, the Briton is becoming a sought-after classic car. But how did this project actually come about? In the 1980s, Jaguar competed for victories and successes in the Group C World Sports Car Championship against Sauber Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, among others. Accordingly, there was great interest among wealthy car fans in a road-going sports car whose V12 powerplant was derived directly from the racing engines. At the 1988 British Motor Show, the Jaguar XJ220 concept car was finally unveiled. The number behind the familiar letter abbreviation was intended to indicate the possible topspeed in miles per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Development together with TWR<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On the very first day of the show, a number of blank checks were already piling up in the backstage area of the Jaguar stand. Nevertheless, it took until December 1989 before Jaguar officially gave the green light for series production. TWR (Tom Walkinshaw Racing), the team responsible for Jaguar’s successful Group C racing cars, was brought on board as development and production partner. A press release was issued stating that only 350 examples of the XJ220 would be produced. Within a very short time, more than 1,200 orders were received. Some interested parties even sent the required 50,000 GBP down payment by check to be sure to receive a vehicle. But while the study still had all-wheel drive and a 6.2-liter V12 engine, the data and the car were trimmed down in series development – in the truest sense of the word.<\/p>\n\n\n

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