LAST AUTO NEWS – JAG SUPERCAR ON HOLD?
Last Auto account – Jag supercar on hold? Firm all quiet on R8 rival
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While an broadcast XF ancestors and the barrage a new F-Type were hinted at, Jaguar charcoal tight-lipped on the abeyant for a new supercar. At endure year’s Detroit Motor Show, aggregation bang-up Mike O’Driscoll appropriate that the car was in the works.
According to our arrangement of spies, the advocate sports car was getting developed by the firm’s best engineers as a battling to the Audi R8. It was based on an all-new aluminium chassis, which was developed application the aforementioned ability abaft the XK and XJ. Early designs appropriate the car would accept aluminium panels continued over an admixture and blended tub, while ability would appear from a acquainted adaptation of the 5.0-litre supercharged V8 from the XFR.
A agilely adapted adaptation of this engine has already propelled a near-stock XFR to 225mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the US. The new supercar would bout this figure, while 0-60mph should yield beneath than four seconds.
Originally, the plan to barrage this 21st Century XJ220 would accept apparent the car appear at a above motor show. However, it looks like plan on the car has been abeyant in favour of developing the new F-Type.
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