Jaguar X220 1994 Specifications | Auto Universe

Puma's XJ220 seemed to have it every one of the: a wonderful aluminum body, purchasers lining up with trade in for spendable dough hand, a 200-mph top pace.


How then would it say it was lessened to a bumper slamming humiliation in high quality TV display races? What's more, why did Jaguar wind up suing some XJ220 clients?

The Jaguar XJ220 is a two-seater super car created by British extravagance auto producer Jaguar from 1992 until 1994, in a joint effort with the authority car and race building organization Tom Walk in shaw Racing. The XJ220 held the record for the speediest generation auto all through 1992 in the wake of recording a top velocity of 213.478 mph (343.560 km/h), before being superseded by the McLaren F1 in 1993 when it recorded a top pace of 231 mph (372 km/h). The Jaguar held the Nürburgring generation auto lap record somewhere around 1992 and 2000 with a period of 7:46.36.



The XJ220 was created from a V12-engined 4-wheel drive idea auto planned by a casual gathering of Jaguar representatives working in their extra time. The gathering wished to make an advanced variant of the effective Jaguar 24 Hours of Le Mans dashing autos of the 1950s and '60s that could be gone into FIA Group B rivalries. The XJ220 made the utilization of building work attempted for Jaguar's then present hustling auto crew.

The name XJ220 was picked as a continuation of the naming of the Jaguar XK120, which alluded to the top velocity of the model in miles every hour. The idea auto had a focused on top rate of 220 mph (350 km/h) so turned into the XJ220. The XK120, similar to the XJ220, was an aluminum-bodied games auto, and when propelled was the speediest creation auto in the world.


The generation XJ220 finished in June 1992 was a two-seat mid-motor roadster outwardly like the first. Be that as it may, it had a 542-hp 3.5-liter twin-turbo V-6, back wheel drive, and routine directing and entryways. It was calm, agreeable, and quick; regardless of the possibility that it didn't achieve the 220-mph focus on that was the premise of its name, it certainly surpassed 210.

The advancement group took a gander at the two key contenders, the Ferrari F40 and the Porsche 959. These were fueled by conservative, lightweight motors; both the Ferrari and the Porsche utilized constrained impelling to acquire high power yields from little dislodging motors.