Scorpiontamer Rowan Atkinson sold his McLaren F1 for £8million and that had been crashed by him twice the first crash was the biggestinsurance claim on a car ever in the U.K.
Bloke down the road from me has a silver one, even though I dislike silver cars, on an xj220, it still makes me gawp every time I see it. Absolutely beautiful car.
Anonnymouse Hacker Yeah that's super cars though. I'd imagine this is hypercar territory for the time. Just look at cars today in the upper supercar area. Aventador SV, F12 TdF. Both well over 700, and that's not even the best. Technology has come a long way don't you think?
+SirLimpsalot Rare and appreciating at last. An amazing v6 engine and I still think they look beautiful. Even if it had the V12 I don't think the top end speed would be much higher plus it would weigh allot more and cooling to consider. Active aerodynamics these days make car styling wayyy to fussy. The XJ220 S is sweet. Out of curiosity what was the colour of the XJ220 you saw? Not far from Edinburgh myself.
The car isn't rare, it's people that buy them as an investment and never drive it and leave it to rot in the garage and the engine seizes up from all the oil dripping down away from the engine. The 2010 Pontiac Vibe only sold 97 models. The 2011 Mercury Milan only sold about 30 or less. Plenty more rare cars than a XJ220, its just people do not drive an XJ220 on the road. It is trailered to and from car shows.
I got to drive a jag s-type R for a couple weeks to bring it over 2500 miles so we could sell it as a used car. It only had 940 miles when we aquired it. Not only did it sound better than any bone stock production car i had ever heard at the time, fuck me was it a drift machine. Within the first 5 minutes driving the thing I drifted the entire 360° freeway entrance perfectly. The rear diff was a thing of beauty. It was on or off. No bullshit. The gear ratios were kind of odd, BIG gap on the 2-3 shift but 3-4 was unbelievable. When you revved it the thing cracked like a whip. Seriously i had a super tricked out Audi b5 Rs4 at the time. I converted it to a single turbo, haltech stand alone ecu, lightweight single mass flywheel and a whole bunch of other stuff. It made 512hp at all 4 wheels. My point being, with that flywheel being less than 3 lbs in my audi, the thing sounded very impressive. The jag sounded more tight. Anyone know what im talking about?? I wanna say it was a 2009 s-type R. It was FFFFUUUUGLY as all get out but, the British racing green, the staggered wheelset they came with, and that glorious supercharged V6 left me giving absolutely zero fux about the stupid ass front end. I almost bought it, then I learned how much a 23 year old kid would have to pay for full coverage insurance on the thing. Guess...go ahead I'll wait...... WRONG!!!!! $506 A MONTH was the cheapest I could find. That was $128 less than the payment itself. The car was so cool I STILL almost bought it. But my best friend who I worked with at the time was like "Bro, I love you, but you're gonna hate yourself in 90 days if you go through with this. You can go buy a brand new Shelby gt500 for less." So that's what I did, hahahahaha!!!
This ones the best top gear the American one so so an the new one like not worth my time out em all it be the top gear an sad part is I'm from America lmao
Rampid Panjandrum we make shit loads of cars and all sorts today, where have you been living the last 20 years? Think you need to watch the top gear episode that shows what Britain still make, including pretty much all the F1 cars!
FunFact: The Jaguar XJ220 had 1500 deposits laid down to buy the car. When the truth of it not living up to the hype, only 275 actually got bought. Facts buddy, facts.
Jaguar Chasseur Stealth TORNADO. There were only two built 001, and 002. 001 is currently for sale in Ireland, for a lot less than £53 thousand. The cost of road tax in the republic, for this beast would make your eyes water. I'm sorely tempted to buy it, but SWMBO would go ape.
Your right. 001 was currently for sale in Ireland. I bought it. Which is the one Clarkson drove in this clip. Yeah I kept the old Irish tax disc in the window showing it was €1890 per year. Outstanding. I also own 002 aswell so I have both in my possession. 2 very seriously fast cars.
Some people don't understand that the aftermarket passed 1000 horses in the 60's. ALL cars have tons of potential if you're willing to compromise comfort, user friendlyness, fuel consumption and/or reliability. Cost is usually what "holds back" most cars though, they are engineered to affordable, they wanna sell them after all.
I DONT think so lol, Hennessy did make vipers (tuned them up and what-not atleast) but I'm pretty sure it was just called the Hennessy viper get or gts or maybe team Hennessy Viper? I don't quite remember but it was my favorite car in gran turismo.... 3? My memory isn't working very well this morning... Plus he said the name of them and it wasn't Hennessy js lol
+geterhero They were called the (viper) venom like he said in the video. I remember them using that paint scheme on some of the examples that showed up in Motor Trend. You can look it up on Hennessey's website.
+geterhero Hennessey wasn't a big name back then like he is now so there's a good chance they referred to it as venom rather than Hennessey Venom Viper. He was one on the few people tuning that car back then that appeared in magazines. I'm sure there were a few other ones, but his was the only one showing up in car magazines at that time. I had a subscription to Road & Track and Motor Trend and read each month from cover to cover multiple times lol. I was obsessed.
+Anthony Mancini yep, you're right, I stand corrected, I didn't think they would reuse the name but atleast its a good one they're using lol, I didn't realize they weren't well known back then so I just assumed Jeremy would've mentioned the name as in "Hennessy Viper Venom or Viper Venom Hennessy... Though now in saying it it just muddies up the name lol
which is why it won overall in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring three times, the rolex 24 at Daytona once, class championship wins at 24 Hours of Le Mans 3 times, the 12 Hours of Sebring once, the Petit Le Mans once, the Fuji 1000km once, and the Mil Milhas Brasileiras once. Also series championships for the FIA GT five times, the American Le Mans Series twice, the FFSA GT Championship four times, and the Belgian GT four times as well as the Italian GT (IN THE HOME OF FERRARI AND LAMBORGHINI!) twice.
Cars back then had to rely on mechanical engineering and driver skill to not kill you as soon as you turn the wheel, but now you can have 1000bhp and driver aids do most of the work for you.
That jaguar will always be my favorite car. I had a model of it as a kid and loved it. I seen a purple one once on the motorway (highway) was so damn loud.
Poor XJ220 what have they don't to you, it's my favourite car since I was a child born in 1983 but first saw this car at a local car/plane show and omg I fell it move with it and it's always been my fave car ever
What do you mean????? You think that series 14 or something later is bad I know the new top gear after the trio is not as good but the trio's top gear was always great
"He took a bloat of a car" .... a car that was built by him for Jaguar in the first place. every single XJ220 was built by JaguarSport, a joint venture by TWR and Jaguar. The XJ220 worked as standard, it just didn't sell well because of the recession, although TWR also managed to built and sell 50 of the obscenely expensive (£500k) XJR-15s which of course had the V12 which the XJ220 so badly missed ... the XJ220S, was just a road version of the XJ220C... like 911RS's
probably because it was cheaper for them to mount super chargers on the Jag engine rather than by whole engines? That's the only reason I can think of.
Saw an XJ220 the other day on the A40 between Burford and Cheltenham, and I was like OMG, my girlfriend really wasn't interested lol but I was shocked to see a XJ220 on the road, such a rare car, reminds me of playing Gran Turismo as a kid
Yep. And the Porsche 917 had 850 hp back in -72. Hovever. None of these cars were street-legal. The cars in this vid are. So, back then 680 hp in a street-legal car with full warranty was unheard of. And yes, the XJ220S had full warranty.
The ultimate tuned car in my opinion is the Toyota Supra. I don't know of any car form the 90s which puts out over 800hp on stock internals. There are a lot more around than the XJ220 and they are a lot cheaper to buy and tune, and amazingly they are just as reliable when tuned.
