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The Jaguar XJ220 is not only the most exciting car Jaguar has ever built, it's also rarer than hen's teeth, which means that finding one for sale is very hard. A €200,000 example sounds like the bargain of the century until you see the state that it's in.
We've just discovered a blue XJ220 for sale at a luxury car garage in Munich, Germany. It only has 12,600 kilometers on the odometer but is in a really sorry state. Pretty much every panel on the car is badly damaged.
Based on the direction of the scratch marks on the hood, we think that the car hit something on its right-hand side, flipped and spun around a couple of times. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to precisely know what happened. But there was a blue XJ220 crashed in Belgium back in 2013, due to excessive speeding.
The XJ220 is was produced in strictly limited numbers between 1992 and 1994. It has a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V5 engine at the back, but engineers wanted to use a V12.
At the time of its conception, the Jag held the record for being the fastest production car in the world, capable of reaching a top speed of 213 miles per hour (approximately 343 km/h). However, it was very expensive, and some of the customers who placed pre-orders were disappointed with its power delivery and handling.
The first XJ220 came into the world as a concept car, launched at the 1988 British Motor Show. Tom Walkinshaw Racing was asked to produce a 6.2-liter version of Jaguar's legendary V12 with four valves per cylinder, quad camshafts and a target output of 510 PS.
An all-wheel-drive system was produced by FF Developments who had experience with such systems going back to the 1960s and the Jensen FF, considered the first of its kind. However, this was replaced with a V6 based on the Austin Metro 6R4's.
Considering all these things, we think that paying €200,000 for this particular XJ220 is a bad idea, even if a mint model probably cost three times as much. But if you still want to, here's where you can check it out.
Based on the direction of the scratch marks on the hood, we think that the car hit something on its right-hand side, flipped and spun around a couple of times. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to precisely know what happened. But there was a blue XJ220 crashed in Belgium back in 2013, due to excessive speeding.
The XJ220 is was produced in strictly limited numbers between 1992 and 1994. It has a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V5 engine at the back, but engineers wanted to use a V12.
At the time of its conception, the Jag held the record for being the fastest production car in the world, capable of reaching a top speed of 213 miles per hour (approximately 343 km/h). However, it was very expensive, and some of the customers who placed pre-orders were disappointed with its power delivery and handling.
The first XJ220 came into the world as a concept car, launched at the 1988 British Motor Show. Tom Walkinshaw Racing was asked to produce a 6.2-liter version of Jaguar's legendary V12 with four valves per cylinder, quad camshafts and a target output of 510 PS.
An all-wheel-drive system was produced by FF Developments who had experience with such systems going back to the 1960s and the Jensen FF, considered the first of its kind. However, this was replaced with a V6 based on the Austin Metro 6R4's.
Considering all these things, we think that paying €200,000 for this particular XJ220 is a bad idea, even if a mint model probably cost three times as much. But if you still want to, here's where you can check it out.
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