Jaguar XJ220

Jaguar XJ220 mid-engined supercar produced by Jaguar in collaboration with Tom Walkinshaw Racing as Jaguar Sportbetween 1992 and 1994. It holds the record for the highest peakspeed of the production car (350 km / h, 217 mph), until the arrival of the McLaren F1 in 1994. XJ220 XJ model is not related toanother, despite sharing "XJ" prefix.

In the 1980s, Jaguar's chief engineer Jim Randle, as part of the group, began work on what he sees as competition for cars like the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959. He imagined what essentially isupdated XJ13 - lightweight two-seater with a powerful mid-mounted V12 engine. Randle expanded on the idea by settling on all wheel drive for improved traction and better handling and an integral safety-cage so the car can safely run at very high speeds.From the beginning, the intention is to create a vehicle capable ofexceeding 320 km / h (200 mph). In the early days of the company, certain Jaguar employees have created an informal group they called "Saturday Club" (so named because they would meet after-hours and on weekends to work on petprojects-unofficial).

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