It’s not a body kit, I believe the whole body has been remade in carbon fibre to include those changes! I used to own an original TWR XJS and that did include a bolt on body kit which did apparently increase top speed by 4 mph without any of the additional upgrades!
@@chrisodonnell7022 The wheels look like they are an updated version of the original Speedline alloys that were fitted to the original TWR XJS back in the 80’s!
Fantastic to see at least someone making an ice jaguar especially after the JLR decision to stop making all ICE jaguars and only have SUV EVs from 2026. Another great British car brand going down the pan!
I used to live on the estate next to Tom Walkinshaw when i was a kid. Every so often you could hear them winding up some kind of sports car along their private road. They weren't quiet neighbours...
Yes as an Aussie, and a massive Ford fan ( Dick Johnson) back in the day ,those bloody Walkinshaw Jaguars used to give me nightmares. His son Ryan is a team owner over here in the Supercars championship.
Now that is what you call a car no hybrid powetrain or batteries under the floor, pure unadulterated design incorporated into automotive excellence. The guys behind this should be applauded wherever they go as they have created a masterpiece.
Great video- love the detail, but this is the first ever car video I have watched and thought what is the point in this car? It’s a modified XJS. A car that should be preserved or resto modded as in the outside kept the same not completely redesigned. Also don’t think it will appeal to the American market with a manual box. The mule to me looked better than the finished design. Love Jaguars and the Channel. This one not for me I am afraid! Keep producing the great content.
I think that saying “ If I won the Lottery I wouldn’t tell anybody but there would be signs” 😂 A XJS actually done right 👍Modern systems old school styling 👌
Have to admit that the design is pretty special. For me, if I could afford one, I'd get a dialed down test mule with the beautiful interior of the final car. Mad Max any time! Great video keeping the final car to the end and showing the 'steps of development' first. Loved it!
Ive been to podium place up in Newbury. I know you regularly film The Drive Torque Podcast with Joe Achilles here aswell. I had some great coffee and food and the supercars and art work about the place is very cool. I always knew this place was behind it. I never knew what they do so this video is awesome. They are a very talented team of resto-modders.
Peter…useless information really but I think they might like the registration number TWR 1 which spent many years on various cars owned by a man running a small corner shop near Hilary’s parental home. I saw it on a Rover 827i Sterling for years but now it is on a 2023 Audi 1.5 petrol. I did see it about a year or so ago and still in Bristol but I would think it was sold as the original keeper must have died many years ago . The DVLA will not help with tracing the current holder somebody might know via “social media” etc.🤔🙂🙂🙂R
XJS always been "the people's champ" glad someone finally did a proper resto-mod to one. This build should inspire Tata to get Jaguar back on track & create a new production coupe to go up against a BMW 850...
Doesn’t look too dissimilar to the Lister XJS conversions of the 80’s/90’s! I had a TWR but always lusted after one of the Listers which looked much more extreme and had the supercharged 7 litre performance to go with it!
Okay ive now watched as you said you did drive it. Which isnt strictly true, nevertheless my question is this, if michelin have worked on this car why had it got P4S on and not the new 5s compound?
How is him driving the vehicle not strictly true? He was the one behind the wheel out on the road i.e. driving the thing..? Were you not hugged as a child to be this bitter?
@PetrolPed right so the tyre hasn't been designed for that particular car? It seemed implied michelin worked with them but I don't understand what michelin input was other than to supply a tyre LOL. I know some car manufacturers will have a specially designed tyre for the car. I got the impression this was been Implied or was that just my Aspergers ?
Some OEMs do indeed have tyres designed for them. This is prohibitively expensive for a limited run project like Supercat. Michelin worked with the team to try a range of fitments and helped with the choices around width and profile. Maybe you should listen when you watch and you would have heard this being explained 🤷♂️
@@GuilNascimento Did he drive the vehicle that the video was about? NO! He drove a different car, car looked totally different! Are your eyes painted on?
What a great video Pete. Certainly cheered me up and gave me positive vibes about Jaguars, albeit the Supercat is another level and some. Stopped me thinking about the Teletubbies vibe that Jaguar have been sharing for their new EV. Well done TWR and for me that interior is to die for.
Great Vid, Thank you. I was a bit unexcited by the initial images released but the detail added in the vid re the suspension was most interesting.. as a dyed in the wool Jag V12 fan, I reckon there's a great opportunity for someone to start producing centrifugal blower kits.
Loving this re-imagining of the XJS in the Supercat, it really is a work of art and huige hats off to Khyzl Saleem, you have ceated a real masterpiece. Although I hope the aerial on the supercat is correctly fitted unlike the aerial on the original XJS in the video which isnt!!! (5.17 in the video) sorry I am a stickler for detail. Well done TWR, with the Supercat, these will sell like hot cakes. I want one!!
Love the idea and work done But the only thing I don't like are the 4 Porsche Turbo boxes on the thing - Jags are synonymous with CURVES ( I suppose that was 'Mr. Porsche' Magnus Walkers 'genius' idea was it?)
Great video, growing to like the bodykit and atleast its not got a V6 hybrid in it ;-) I grew up with the Return of the Saint and was one of my favourite cars as a kid
I love it! They’ve taken a 1970s icon and made it into a 2020’s icon, but with all the power and sophistication of a modern super GT. I watched the TWR cars race when I was a boy and this brings it all back! I want one! Now, I wonder much can I get for a kidney?
I think the marketing department / hierarchy at JLR , need to be watching this . Premium cars have to be 1) good 2) Desired . This is a thing of beauty looks amazing
Oh my lordy lord, what a piece of engineering and design, the sound of that Mule car 'Mad Max' was simply glorious. Great video as always Pete , keep them coming and unfortunately RIP Jaguar as we know it 😞
Everything is perfect. But i would change its speedometer, from a 0-200mph (0-320kph) speedometer to a 0-220mph (0-360 in kph), 220mph as the max speed
Maybe one day old XJSs will be with more than 8 dollars. I love Them but the old XJS to me seem ridiculously cheap. I bought a mint one for 10k. So a mint V12 roadster beautiful to look at drives like nothing else. Really underrated.
The last time I saw a TWR XJS was in February 1998 when unfortunately I was unceremoniously pushed into the rear of it by a truck hitting me from behind on the A40 just after the Hanger Lane Underpass in London. The wheelchair accessible Mercedes V-Class I was driving was totalled as was the XJS because the impact was transmitted up through the buttresses like rear wings and actually caused the roof to ripple. Thankfully my self and the two people in the XJS only suffered whiplash and the Truck driver was prosecuted. It was just a shame to see such a special car written off.
@ the one with the ugly car. And nasty interior! Let go through it… No matter where you pause and screen shot this interior, you’re not more than an inch away from poor quality. Which old radio did they use those buttons from? Shall we clean them before we use them? No just spray over the dirt it’ll be rite. Which fisher price toy did they take that dash screen from!!🙈 Which apprentice reject graphic person did the programming? Did they not realise that TWR did crap body kits in the 70’s because they simply didn’t have access to better tools🤷🏼♂️ Your not supposed to build to that standard today😂 The back of the car looks like those videos where they find a 70’s trans am in a bush. Where someone once tried to make a ‘bandit’ car. But gave up and dumped it. Every area of the dashboard is flat yet still worse designed and buikt than a bmw m1 or DeLorean. How far apart are these cars!! The back seats came out. And got replaced with one of those eBay Chevy track beds. Those air vents look like me and my daughter made them from toilet rolls and a kinder toy. What we’re supposed to all go along with the nonsense that this is a well designed well turned out car? Come off it. Then look at the presentation of be car. The owners don’t even have enough pride in themselves. Or realise that yes how they look and how they respect (or clearly don’t) themselves is massively relevant and important to the brand and what millionaires are buying into. There’s simply not one thing about this car or its team that is well turned out. Everyone hates the truth now days🤷🏼♂️
@@simonmenzies3142 I applaud you Sir 👏👏Thank the Lord that someone has the b***s to say it, exactly as it is!! Furthermore, a bunch of us Jaguar forum members, will be putting our likes down on your comment. Hopefully, the channel creator will allow those likes to be seen, rather than preventing them going through!!. After all, It ain't all about kissing his a**.
Personally, I thought the ‘mule’ looked best, but that sound would never get old - perfect! I’m amazed it handled that well with seemingly bicycle width rear tyres, but it was a mule after all I suppose. Hope they have great success and sell out ten times over. I wish them luck in the US.
Congrats - you distract more info from the interviews than many of your colleagues! Well done. Amazing beast. Lv the engine/manual upgrade! WOW, Will TWR sell the engine upgrades separately?
somewhat ironic that this video is published on the day jaguar 'rebranded' and deliberatly destroyed its own history
lol, sad but true
Oddly, I think Mad Max looks better than the finished article which is a bit OTT for my taste.
In addition to all you say in your opening monologue, didn't TWR run Holden V8's in Australia?
I love the wheels. I dislike the body kit. But I love the concept
I dislike the wheels but love the bodykit🤣
It’s not a body kit, I believe the whole body has been remade in carbon fibre to include those changes!
I used to own an original TWR XJS and that did include a bolt on body kit which did apparently increase top speed by 4 mph without any of the additional upgrades!
@@chrisodonnell7022
The wheels look like they are an updated version of the original Speedline alloys that were fitted to the original TWR XJS back in the 80’s!
Disappointed they didn't put a stick man saint on the bonnet. (Oh come on, we all had that Corgi XJS didn't we?? 😃)
I certainly did. One of my favourite toys as a kid 👍
TWR without an XJS would not be TWR. Brilliant.
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Fantastic to see at least someone making an ice jaguar especially after the JLR decision to stop making all ICE jaguars and only have SUV EVs from 2026. Another great British car brand going down the pan!
Yeah sad to see 😢
I thought the only car to have been announced is a saloon?
I used to live on the estate next to Tom Walkinshaw when i was a kid. Every so often you could hear them winding up some kind of sports car along their private road. They weren't quiet neighbours...
Nice 👌
Yes as an Aussie, and a massive Ford fan ( Dick Johnson) back in the day ,those bloody Walkinshaw Jaguars used to give me nightmares. His son Ryan is a team owner over here in the Supercars championship.
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The mule should have been nicknamed... 'Pablo' I believe he had many.
😂😂😂
Maybe your first look, but we saw it first on "Number 27" YT channel, which probably accounts for ya lower views. You gotta get in earlier fella!!
I just delayed putting it out after the 0800 embargo to my normal time of 1800. Tricky to know what to do 🤷♂️
@@PetrolPed keep mixing up the thumbnail! This video is so much better than the Number 27. Maybe do a pic of you driving?
Now that is what you call a car no hybrid powetrain or batteries under the floor, pure unadulterated design incorporated into automotive excellence. The guys behind this should be applauded wherever they go as they have created a masterpiece.
Indeed 👍
Great video- love the detail, but this is the first ever car video I have watched and thought what is the point in this car? It’s a modified XJS. A car that should be preserved or resto modded as in the outside kept the same not completely redesigned. Also don’t think it will appeal to the American market with a manual box. The mule to me looked better than the finished design. Love Jaguars and the Channel. This one not for me I am afraid! Keep producing the great content.
No speed limits were broken here🤣
Fantastic machine, I have already been in touch with TWR ....
Great 👍
I kind of really want the body kit in the same vein as The Mule for my XJS...
Maybe not the bonnet and front bar, but my god the wide body!
I think that saying “ If I won the Lottery I wouldn’t tell anybody but there would be signs” 😂
A XJS actually done right 👍Modern systems old school styling 👌
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I enjoyed watching the video, the Restomod looks great, I was reading about It today 😊
I'm so glad!
Have to admit that the design is pretty special. For me, if I could afford one, I'd get a dialed down test mule with the beautiful interior of the final car. Mad Max any time! Great video keeping the final car to the end and showing the 'steps of development' first. Loved it!
Thanks Guy. Glad you liked it 👍
I like the test mule exterior, too.
Lovely looking thing, my first boss had an XJS. While waiting for Jaguar to revisit the name this will do nicely.
Yep 👍
Ive been to podium place up in Newbury. I know you regularly film The Drive Torque Podcast with Joe Achilles here aswell. I had some great coffee and food and the supercars and art work about the place is very cool. I always knew this place was behind it. I never knew what they do so this video is awesome. They are a very talented team of resto-modders.
Thanks for this 👍
So lovely seeing a TWR Jaguar back again nice video Mr P
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Peter…useless information really but I think they might like the registration number TWR 1 which spent many years on various cars owned by a man running a small corner shop near Hilary’s parental home. I saw it on a Rover 827i Sterling for years but now it is on a 2023 Audi 1.5 petrol. I did see it about a year or so ago and still in Bristol but I would think it was sold as the original keeper must have died many years ago . The DVLA will not help with tracing the current holder somebody might know via “social media” etc.🤔🙂🙂🙂R
That would be cool 😎
Hello ped
Hope you are doing well keep up the great work 🤝
Thanks, you too!
Evening all! Hope everyone is doing well and are having a great week so far.
Hey there!
Great video! What a noise!
Indeed it is!
After the new out-of-touch marketing move...😒 This made it even more depressing. Beautiful build
Yeah. I agree 👍
Love to see the XJS getting some power. Awesome that they continued with the Jag V12. Great video.
Thanks 🙏🏻
XJS always been "the people's champ" glad someone finally did a proper resto-mod to one. This build should inspire Tata to get Jaguar back on track & create a new production coupe to go up against a BMW 850...
Yep 👍
Evening all peddlers
Hi 👋
Would the K&N filters not be fighting against the heat soak from the exhaust manifold and not pulling in cold air?
A question for Fergus 😬
What a great car. The mutant child of the XJS and an Audi UR quattro rally car.👏👏👏❤❤❤
Doesn’t look too dissimilar to the Lister XJS conversions of the 80’s/90’s!
I had a TWR but always lusted after one of the Listers which looked much more extreme and had the supercharged 7 litre performance to go with it!
Okay ive now watched as you said you did drive it. Which isnt strictly true, nevertheless my question is this, if michelin have worked on this car why had it got P4S on and not the new 5s compound?
Quite simple really. S5 is still quite a new tyre and is only available in limited sizes. It was available in the size the TWR team needed.
How is him driving the vehicle not strictly true? He was the one behind the wheel out on the road i.e. driving the thing..? Were you not hugged as a child to be this bitter?
@PetrolPed right so the tyre hasn't been designed for that particular car? It seemed implied michelin worked with them but I don't understand what michelin input was other than to supply a tyre LOL. I know some car manufacturers will have a specially designed tyre for the car. I got the impression this was been Implied or was that just my Aspergers ?
Some OEMs do indeed have tyres designed for them. This is prohibitively expensive for a limited run project like Supercat. Michelin worked with the team to try a range of fitments and helped with the choices around width and profile.
Maybe you should listen when you watch and you would have heard this being explained 🤷♂️
@@GuilNascimento Did he drive the vehicle that the video was about? NO! He drove a different car, car looked totally different! Are your eyes painted on?
Great design . Details of Ferrari Testarossa and Porsche 959 in those rear hips and ducktail . Awesome
Glad you like it!
Such a tidy design for the xj , thanks for showing us this Ped
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Great interviews! Nice to have more details
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well Ped another brilliant video.Thank you.👍👍
Thanks 👍
What a great video Pete. Certainly cheered me up and gave me positive vibes about Jaguars, albeit the Supercat is another level and some. Stopped me thinking about the Teletubbies vibe that Jaguar have been sharing for their new EV. Well done TWR and for me that interior is to die for.
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Always loved the XJS and this one is bloody awesome.
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Great Vid, Thank you. I was a bit unexcited by the initial images released but the detail added in the vid re the suspension was most interesting.. as a dyed in the wool Jag V12 fan, I reckon there's a great opportunity for someone to start producing centrifugal blower kits.
The challenge is the amount of work the head needs. You can’t just strap on a supercharger 😢
Loving this re-imagining of the XJS in the Supercat, it really is a work of art and huige hats off to Khyzl Saleem, you have ceated a real masterpiece. Although I hope the aerial on the supercat is correctly fitted unlike the aerial on the original XJS in the video which isnt!!! (5.17 in the video) sorry I am a stickler for detail. Well done TWR, with the Supercat, these will sell like hot cakes. I want one!!
Me too 😂
Pete OOO Pete how did you pull this one , what a drive, thats what the XJS should have been from day one
Quite an experience 👌
Love the idea and work done But the only thing I don't like are the 4 Porsche Turbo boxes on the thing - Jags are synonymous with CURVES ( I suppose that was
'Mr. Porsche' Magnus Walkers 'genius' idea was it?)
Fantastic, i really hope these guys make it with their dreams, this resonates so much with petrolheads ❤
Indeed 👍
Best of luck TWR with this Project, so good I want one.
You and me both!
Tough, functional, perhaps a little "busy", but organized and masculine. Green and white (TWR colours here in Australia) would look great.
Sounds great!
Beast of a beast!! Magnificent!
Great video, growing to like the bodykit and atleast its not got a V6 hybrid in it ;-) I grew up with the Return of the Saint and was one of my favourite cars as a kid
Me too 👍
I love it! They’ve taken a 1970s icon and made it into a 2020’s icon, but with all the power and sophistication of a modern super GT.
I watched the TWR cars race when I was a boy and this brings it all back! I want one!
Now, I wonder much can I get for a kidney?
Good evening Peddlerz.😊
Hello there!
I think the marketing department / hierarchy at JLR , need to be watching this . Premium cars have to be 1) good 2) Desired . This is a thing of beauty looks amazing
Thanks 🙏🏻
Good Gravy! That is ......something else......effing amazing!
Oh yes!
Okay, I think everyone’s reviewed this car now. We can move on.
4 outlets if I’m not mistaken 🤷♂️
Oh my lordy lord, what a piece of engineering and design, the sound of that Mule car 'Mad Max' was simply glorious. Great video as always Pete , keep them coming and unfortunately RIP Jaguar as we know it 😞
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Omg, I saw the first XJS in London the year it got launched. Earls Court, i believe.. same year, the Porsche 911 Turbo got launched.
And here we have some delicious food for the algorithm ;-)
Yum 😋
Everything is perfect. But i would change its speedometer, from a 0-200mph (0-320kph) speedometer to a 0-220mph (0-360 in kph), 220mph as the max speed
What a beast, definitely one for the lottery win list, and great vid Pete 👍
Cheers Buddy 👍
Khysyl….someone taller than Pete 😮
Yep 😂
This was great content Mr Ped, beats those EV videos all day long
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Great video what a car with incredible people behind it, deserves every success. nailed another one Pete.
Thanks 👍
That looks absolutely awesome.
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Maybe one day old XJSs will be with more than 8 dollars. I love
Them but the old XJS to me seem ridiculously cheap. I bought a mint one for 10k. So a mint V12 roadster beautiful to look at drives like nothing else. Really underrated.
A modern TWR restomod would have been so much better.
That’s what this is 🤷♂️
oh i love that !
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"Be still, my heart."
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Hello evening all.
Hello there!
Evening Peddlers
Hi 👋
I have a woody like never before……. Utterly beautiful. Would prefer a 7.0lt atmo tho. 👍🥃🇦🇺
The last time I saw a TWR XJS was in February 1998 when unfortunately I was unceremoniously pushed into the rear of it by a truck hitting me from behind on the A40 just after the Hanger Lane Underpass in London. The wheelchair accessible Mercedes V-Class I was driving was totalled as was the XJS because the impact was transmitted up through the buttresses like rear wings and actually caused the roof to ripple. Thankfully my self and the two people in the XJS only suffered whiplash and the Truck driver was prosecuted. It was just a shame to see such a special car written off.
Ouch 😣
How did they widen the body, carbon fibre wings?
Yes. All the body is carbon 👍
@@PetrolPed carbon fibre wings and sills bonded to the original steel body.
Carbon bonnet and boot lid.
Wonder what they think of the Jag “re-brand”? What a piece of kit!
Probably the same as everyone else 😢
@ just watching a Sky news Australia report on their ad. Reasonably brutal
Leepu and Bernie from chop shop are back I see.
I thought that abomination they made for Ross kemp got crushed!!!
Who made the interior a 3yr old?
Not sure which video you were watching 🤷♂️
@ the one with the ugly car. And nasty interior!
Let go through it…
No matter where you pause and screen shot this interior, you’re not more than an inch away from poor quality.
Which old radio did they use those buttons from?
Shall we clean them before we use them?
No just spray over the dirt it’ll be rite.
Which fisher price toy did they take that dash screen from!!🙈
Which apprentice reject graphic person did the programming?
Did they not realise that TWR did crap body kits in the 70’s because they simply didn’t have access to better tools🤷🏼♂️
Your not supposed to build to that standard today😂
The back of the car looks like those videos where they find a 70’s trans am in a bush. Where someone once tried to make a ‘bandit’ car.
But gave up and dumped it.
Every area of the dashboard is flat yet still worse designed and buikt than a bmw m1 or DeLorean.
How far apart are these cars!!
The back seats came out.
And got replaced with one of those eBay Chevy track beds.
Those air vents look like me and my daughter made them from toilet rolls and a kinder toy.
What we’re supposed to all go along with the nonsense that this is a well designed well turned out car?
Come off it.
Then look at the presentation of be car.
The owners don’t even have enough pride in themselves.
Or realise that yes how they look and how they respect (or clearly don’t) themselves is massively relevant and important to the brand and what millionaires are buying into.
There’s simply not one thing about this car or its team that is well turned out.
Everyone hates the truth now days🤷🏼♂️
@@simonmenzies3142 I applaud you Sir 👏👏Thank the Lord that someone has the b***s to say it, exactly as it is!! Furthermore, a bunch of us Jaguar forum members, will be putting our likes down on your comment. Hopefully, the channel creator will allow those likes to be seen, rather than preventing them going through!!. After all, It ain't all about kissing his a**.
Ed sheerans let himself go 😂
All fine and dandy until you come up to a speed bump.
No. It’s has nose lift 👍
@@PetrolPed Touche!
Personally, I thought the ‘mule’ looked best, but that sound would never get old - perfect! I’m amazed it handled that well with seemingly bicycle width rear tyres, but it was a mule after all I suppose. Hope they have great success and sell out ten times over. I wish them luck in the US.
Bicycle width?, they are 325,s
@ …are they?
Brilliant video
Thanks 🙏🏻
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my dad had a v12 XJS in that colour.....
Please guys call Jaguar go save them!
😂😂😂
just looks amazing
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😊
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what Faguar should be doing.
Definitely nice, old school looks with a little twist
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Needs gold BBS wheels on 🤔
Hi
Hi 👋
Good evening everyone!
Hi 👋
Awesome - great video 👏🏼👏🏼
Glad you liked it!
Magnificent. I can dream
Me too 😂
Excellent and fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic vid Pete. This is what Jaguar SHOULD be doing, rather than the way they are going :(
I agree 👍
Wow wow Pete that is stunning looks amazing I won't one fantastic video.
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Great video and an amazing piece of heritage with great racing heritage. Loved this one Pedro.
Thanks Dan 👍
Wow how has the great TWR legacy of racinng and Jaguer got to th e recent rebranding of jaguar ? could be the end of an iconic british brand.☹
Yes maybe 😬
On the day Jaguar decided to trash its brand (if you haven't seen it, you will be aghast...) TWR demonstrate how to build a Jag.
Oh I’ve seen it 😢
I think I prefer the look of The Mule......with a little tidying....
Congrats - you distract more info from the interviews than many of your colleagues! Well done. Amazing beast. Lv the engine/manual upgrade! WOW, Will TWR sell the engine upgrades separately?
Much appreciated!
Phenomenal stuff! 😎
Thanks 🙏🏻
To be honest i quite like the look of the 'mule'. Always loved the XJS, hope this new version does well.
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