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In the post Leyland era, Jaguar employees formed “The Saturday Club” to work on pet projects outside of company time. Chief engineer, Jim Randle, had a vision for a spiritual successor to the XJ13 (as famously wrecked, through no fault of his own, by Norman Dewis<\/a>) – a v12 mid-engined two-seater coupe.<\/p>\n

Almost unbelievably, Jaguar decided to make it, with the help of TWR, and the car that went into production, as a serious rival to the Ferrari F40<\/a> and Porsche 959, was eventually fitted with a twin-turbocharged V6 engine in order to meet emissions standards. The car’s limited production run of only 289 ensures that it remains one of the most highly sought-after cars by wealthy collectors.<\/p>\n

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The only truly British supercar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,6],"tags":[953,1113,2002,15,85,2003],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-features","tag-british","tag-british-cars","tag-features","tag-galleries","tag-issue-6","tag-jaguar","manufacturers-jaguar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJaguar XJ220 - Supercar with Teeth - Influx<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A serious rival of the Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40, the rare Jaguar XJ220 was a fleeting success of engineering and design.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/jaguar-xj220\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jaguar XJ220 - 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