My god. That yellow XJR-15 is the stuff of dreams. I always loved this car since I found it in NFS III, while the XJ220 sits a bit higher for me, the XJR-15 is another masterpiece. Also I would pay for a replica of those headsets (if they sound good, hahaha) A shame that Jaguar themselves couldn't decide if they wanted this or the XJ220, so they had a bit of in-fighting...
Definitely a car which should be better known. Not wanting to send your viewers elsewhere, but Jay Leno drove one of these on his UA-cam channel the other year
The XJ220 was the faster car with way, way higher potential for power. The standard XJ22O had 542bhp the XJ220S had 680bhp! The V12 was heavy, down on power and way down on torque. The only benefit would be a nicer soundtrack and that's about it. Turbo's were the thing in the 80s and into the 90s with the XJ220s competition being the F40 (although the F40 was awful compared to the Jag, being a stripped out racer. Even the performance figures were bollocks/BS due to the Italian habit of lying about power outputs and performance figures!) and the Porsche 959 (a car that actually had a very high quality interior and technology not needing stripping out to perform!) with both cars using relatively small capacity, twin turbo charged engines. Though the XJ220 annihilated both performance wise!
@@davekennedy6315 I agree. The V6 was essentially a modified V64V engine from the 6R4-a masterpiece of an engine! Unfortunately, though the XJ220 was just stunning, everything else about the car was poorly done by TWR. Cheapy Ford Fiesta switches, high weight and terrible build quality on the most expensive car in the world is not much good IMO... By the time TWR brought out the much lighter and more powerful S version all the damage had been done. Still....soooooo gorgeous!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@@rooramblingon895 yeah those looks excuse a lot. Drives tend to really like the car too. Yeah it had its issues but just look at the F40 in comparison? It had literally nothing inside to get the weight down enough to make its power count (and knowing Ferrari their figures were probably all BS anyway! I remember seeing a race between an F40 and a Porsche 959 that on paper was slower across the board. In reality the 959 whipped the F40 on everything, yet still had a luxury interior and was a far more comfortable and usable car)
The only reason I have any idea about this car is that I was a young lad growing up in the UK and I remember it being in the press and TV at the time I wish we could have seen it on our roads but we were never lucky enough 😢
When car pals asks me to nominate what are for me the 5 most revolutionary road-legal cars produced in the last 40 years this is my usual answer: Audi Quattro, Ferrari F40, Bugatti EB-110, THIS TWR-JAG and the McLaren F1. PS: my personal "list" was in order of time, not in order of importance ofc.
Different times. The F1's V12 was essentially a built BMW V12 from their 8 Series which itself only had around 400 or so HP in the BMW cars themselves. More than 600hp on a road-going car at the time was pretty massive. The XJR 15 probably did have more than 450hp though.
Did Peter Stevens design the McLaren F1 or style the McLaren F1? If he designed it, what did Gordon Murray do, and why is Stevens not making a GMA T50? 🤔 Anyway, the XJR-15 didn't just have oversteer, it had snap-oversteer...the kind which got the nickname widowmaker on several other cars! I like the motor, not only because it looks and sounds great; but, also because it tried to kill Jeremy Clarkson in one of his videos.
Sorry for being late on reply, I've watched alot of documentaries on the McLaren f1, Peter helped style the F1 after he and Gordon finished wind tunnel testing, Gordon wanted the f1 to be a clean slate with the smallest amount of drag possible with the cockpit specs intact, Peter did the clay moulding and finishing shape touches, everything was still Gordons vision from start to finish but Peter helped bring it to life if that makes sense.
Well British, when price tagging things, are overpricing their products and engineering to bonkers levels. Well this car is definitely a competitor of Ferrari F40, sure drag races from naught to 60 with turbos singing was always for Ferrari to win, but on move and on revs where Ferrari lags and needs to downshift Jaguar might be better. All carbon Ferrari costed at the time 200.000 pounds while Jaguar costed 1.000.000 pounds. And i think if it had a much more down to earth price, this car might have been next to F40. But 1.000.000 pounds seriously the customer paid Jaguar's debts with the car.
wrong-hand drive is fine if they are putting the shift stick on the proper side, to the right of the driver. would still feel funky to be sitting on the wrong side of the car, but would at least not be the disadvantage most wrong-hand drive cars are.
@@gordon2zz778 yes, i've heard people say that, but steering input with a single hand in the short time your hand is off the wheel during shifting isn't meaningful. even if you were to spend several seconds with only one hand on the wheel, it being your dominant hand vs non-dominant isn't going to make any difference. the dexterity of your dominant hand comes in many times more handy at shifting than steering.
@@automobilistic most people are right handed, so wrong hand drive has you shifting with your non-dom hand. holding on to a wheel is much easier than shifting. only really matters if the car is manual tho :/
My god. That yellow XJR-15 is the stuff of dreams. I always loved this car since I found it in NFS III, while the XJ220 sits a bit higher for me, the XJR-15 is another masterpiece. Also I would pay for a replica of those headsets (if they sound good, hahaha)
A shame that Jaguar themselves couldn't decide if they wanted this or the XJ220, so they had a bit of in-fighting...
It was a side project from TWR which Jaguar decided to sponsor on the side. Their main focus was the XJ220.
@@traviswalker8933 God bless Tom
I always wondered if the Pagani Zonda's design was somehow inspired by this.
I think you've probably just nailed it.... So similar in design
I never knew about the XJR-15 but I can see the similarities now!
Definitely a car which should be better known.
Not wanting to send your viewers elsewhere, but Jay Leno drove one of these on his UA-cam channel the other year
Not sure, racing cars made road worthy always lack popularity.
if I was one of the poor saps that got stuck with an XJ220 I'd do everything in my power to bamboozle someone into a trade for one of these haha
I remember there was a kerfuffle when the 220 got the Turbo 6 instead of the V12. Made the XJR-15 much more desirable with it's actual V12.
The XJ220 was the faster car with way, way higher potential for power. The standard XJ22O had 542bhp the XJ220S had 680bhp! The V12 was heavy, down on power and way down on torque. The only benefit would be a nicer soundtrack and that's about it. Turbo's were the thing in the 80s and into the 90s with the XJ220s competition being the F40 (although the F40 was awful compared to the Jag, being a stripped out racer. Even the performance figures were bollocks/BS due to the Italian habit of lying about power outputs and performance figures!) and the Porsche 959 (a car that actually had a very high quality interior and technology not needing stripping out to perform!) with both cars using relatively small capacity, twin turbo charged engines. Though the XJ220 annihilated both performance wise!
@@davekennedy6315 I agree. The V6 was essentially a modified V64V engine from the 6R4-a masterpiece of an engine!
Unfortunately, though the XJ220 was just stunning, everything else about the car was poorly done by TWR. Cheapy Ford Fiesta switches, high weight and terrible build quality on the most expensive car in the world is not much good IMO...
By the time TWR brought out the much lighter and more powerful S version all the damage had been done.
Still....soooooo gorgeous!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@@rooramblingon895 yeah those looks excuse a lot. Drives tend to really like the car too. Yeah it had its issues but just look at the F40 in comparison? It had literally nothing inside to get the weight down enough to make its power count (and knowing Ferrari their figures were probably all BS anyway! I remember seeing a race between an F40 and a Porsche 959 that on paper was slower across the board. In reality the 959 whipped the F40 on everything, yet still had a luxury interior and was a far more comfortable and usable car)
@@rooramblingon895 whoops, apologies if any of that is repeated.
Never heard of this road going car before and that's why i love this channel!😍
Its always been surprising to me how unknown this car is! I've always really liked it, and I'm glad I'm able to share it!
@@automobilistic I know about this car ever since I've driven it in NFS Hot Pursuit 3.
The only reason I have any idea about this car is that I was a young lad growing up in the UK and I remember it being in the press and TV at the time I wish we could have seen it on our roads but we were never lucky enough 😢
I figure after binging your videos for days now, I'm subscribing..
Thanks for your hard work.
Thanks! Plenty more on the way
Awesome car. Love how ridiculous it is especially the pilot headsets. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Ive seen the race at the end, its between 3 imports in Japan and the XJR15 was the only stock car.. its an absolute masterpiece
The Gran Turismo soundtrack is appropriate to the era 🙂
Why this jewel of a car isn't celebrated and salivated over to this day is a mystery, indeed.
those videos are really good, hope you get into people's recommended more lol
XJR-15 is cooler than the XJ220.
" the car is Bonkers " ahahahahahaa
Best coment ever in a car Video 🤣👍
When car pals asks me to nominate what are for me the 5 most revolutionary road-legal cars produced in the last 40 years this is my usual answer: Audi Quattro, Ferrari F40, Bugatti EB-110, THIS TWR-JAG and the McLaren F1.
PS: my personal "list" was in order of time, not in order of importance ofc.
it's a crime that polyphony digital never inlcluded it again in future gt games
Jaguar could have been near the top of the supercar game if they continued to create cars like this.
1. I touched 2 of the 49 cars built, 2. is this the background music from Gran Turismo?
Can you do tommy kaira ZZII
Good suggestion, I'll add it to the list!
How about the Too overlooked
D- Jag heir,
X-13?
bet it's more then 450hp un officially . Hard to believe a same period 6litre v12 had 200hp less then the McLaren f1's 6.1litre v12 .
Different times. The F1's V12 was essentially a built BMW V12 from their 8 Series which itself only had around 400 or so HP in the BMW cars themselves. More than 600hp on a road-going car at the time was pretty massive. The XJR 15 probably did have more than 450hp though.
Did Peter Stevens design the McLaren F1 or style the McLaren F1? If he designed it, what did Gordon Murray do, and why is Stevens not making a GMA T50? 🤔
Anyway, the XJR-15 didn't just have oversteer, it had snap-oversteer...the kind which got the nickname widowmaker on several other cars! I like the motor, not only because it looks and sounds great; but, also because it tried to kill Jeremy Clarkson in one of his videos.
Sorry for being late on reply, I've watched alot of documentaries on the McLaren f1, Peter helped style the F1 after he and Gordon finished wind tunnel testing, Gordon wanted the f1 to be a clean slate with the smallest amount of drag possible with the cockpit specs intact, Peter did the clay moulding and finishing shape touches, everything was still Gordons vision from start to finish but Peter helped bring it to life if that makes sense.
shuld have ben raced in BPR GT
so much sexier than an F1, in my pathetic opinion ; )
And in forza it's one of the best cars
Synchro box for me, please
"THE CAAAH IZ BONKEZ" ah them Brits.
looks like a zonda
Well British, when price tagging things, are overpricing their products and engineering to bonkers levels. Well this car is definitely a competitor of Ferrari F40, sure drag races from naught to 60 with turbos singing was always for Ferrari to win, but on move and on revs where Ferrari lags and needs to downshift Jaguar might be better. All carbon Ferrari costed at the time 200.000 pounds while Jaguar costed 1.000.000 pounds. And i think if it had a much more down to earth price, this car might have been next to F40. But 1.000.000 pounds seriously the customer paid Jaguar's debts with the car.
wrong-hand drive is fine if they are putting the shift stick on the proper side, to the right of the driver. would still feel funky to be sitting on the wrong side of the car, but would at least not be the disadvantage most wrong-hand drive cars are.
and what exactly is the disadvantage normally associated with right-hand drive cars?
once you get used to change gears with your left, its pretty handy cuz your dominant hand is always on the steering wheel
@@gordon2zz778 yes, i've heard people say that, but steering input with a single hand in the short time your hand is off the wheel during shifting isn't meaningful. even if you were to spend several seconds with only one hand on the wheel, it being your dominant hand vs non-dominant isn't going to make any difference.
the dexterity of your dominant hand comes in many times more handy at shifting than steering.
@@automobilistic most people are right handed, so wrong hand drive has you shifting with your non-dom hand. holding on to a wheel is much easier than shifting. only really matters if the car is manual tho :/
It's right-hand drive, not wrong-hand drive.
Typical English ‘that’ll do’ mentality on this car. No interior. It’s not a bug it’s a feature. Same goes for RHD only.