169 Jaguar XJ220 Concept Car - Quad-Cam V12 4WD Prototype (1988)

Jaguar XJ220 Concept Car - Quad-Cam V12 4WD Prototype (1988) Engine 6995cc Quad Cam V12
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This extraordinary car was never intended as a production model, the XJ220 concept car was the work of a dozen specialist engineers and designers, on a voluntary basis in their own time, with help from about forty of Jaguar’s suppliers. The team behind the car became famous as ‘The Saturday Club’.

XJ220 was the brainchild of Jaguar’s Chief Engineer, now Professor Jim Randle, who originally planned to make a Group B car, equally at home both on the road and the racetrack – a limited production supercar, to match the Ferrari F40 and the Porsche 959. He came up with the basic concept in December 1984, and engineering and styling work began in early 1985. The designer responsible for the shape of the car was Keith Helfet, the South African born Royal College of Art graduate who had become Jaguar’s Senior Sports Car Designer.

The XJ220 concept car had chassis, engine and drive train based on the Jaguar Group C racing cars, with the addition of a prototype four wheel drive system. At the same time, it offered traditional Jaguar qualities, with a superb leather interior, and the beautifully shaped aluminium body. It was never intended to be a production car, it was unveiled on the Jaguar stand at the International Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham on 18 October 1988

Interest was so great that a feasibility study was carried out, and in late 1989 the project was approved. The production car was a very different animal though a Supercar in its own right. Retaining the Keith Helfet designed body shape, built at Jaguar Sport a joint venture between Tom Walkinshaws TWR and Jaguar in Bloxham Oxfordshire between 1992-94 the car was now powered by a TWR V6 engine and rear wheel drive only, and originally sold at a list price of £400,000. The top speed was around 213 mph (343 km/h), as measured in independent road tests – enough for the XJ220 to claim the title of the fastest production car in the world at that time.

BUT WHAT IF this car had reached production

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Shot 15.05.2016 at the Gaydon Motor Museum, Warwks REF 117-169

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