Jaguar XJR-S V12 6.0 litre
Jaguar XJR-S 1992. .Very rare TWR / Jaguar Sport V12 6.0Litre XJR-S from 1992. Very low kms and has been dry stored for the past 15 years. Now fully recommissioned and ITV tested this car is located in southern Spain where it was supplied when new. It is LHD and, of course, on Spanish plates. It is dark green with magnolia leather trim and everything is in first-class condition and is as it should be. Fitted Arden split-rim alloy wheels and all the usual Jaguar refinements. The car is delightful and is really what the XJ-S ought to have been when it was first introduced! €29900. Contact Ian Giles for more info. ian@iangiles.com
This LHD auto 1992 Jaguar XJR-S V12 6.0-litre was delivered new to Spain in 1992 and is one of the last of just 431 LHD 6.0 XJR-S models ever made.
When the Jaguar XJR-S was launched in August 1988, Jaguar was riding the crest of a reputational wave, having just claimed its 6th Le Mans victory and, in 1987, won the World Sportscar Championship.
It was a genuinely bespoke model produced by Jaguar Sport - a high-performance wing jointly owned by Jaguar and the Tom Walkinshaw Racing Group. Initially powered by a 5.3-litre V12, the engine was upgraded in 1989 to a bespoke 6.0-litre unit with Zytek fuel injection. It was good for 334 bhp and 160 mph.
Boasting a new forged steel crankshaft, forged alloy pistons, modified air intake and a dual exhaust system, the engine was unique to the XJR-S and was only phased out once Jaguar introduced its own 6.0-litre V12.
The XJR-S proved to be an immediate winner with contemporary journalists. In a Motor Sport magazine group test, the Jaguar handed out a humiliating spanking to a Porsche 928 GT, a BMW 850i and a Ferrari Mondial T – no mean feat.
Motoring journalist Andrew Frankel recalled that test some years later: "Suddenly, almost 30 years on, we realised we were looking at the true successor to the E-type; a car capable of doing to the likes of the Mondial what the E had done to the 250 GT. [...] Yet, unlike in the Porsche 928 GT, there was no fuss, no drama, no deafening din of tyres on bitumen; there was just calm, relaxed and blindingly fast progress".
While the XJR-S may have looked pretty much like a standard Jaguar XJR coupé, virtually every mechanical part was unique. Each car left the factory as a hand-built unit from Jaguar Sport’s manufacturing facility at Bloxham, which had attained legendary status as the skunk-works unit that built the seminal XJ220.