Jaguar pulled the wraps off the best able alley car in its history, the XE SV Project 8. The limited-run archetypal fabricated its admission at the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Acceleration and is priced from £149,995.
Only 300 examples of the Project 8 will be built, all by hand. It lifts the eight-speed automated gearbox, all-wheel drive and 5.0-litre supercharged V8 powertrain from the F-Type SVR, but sees ability acceleration from 567bhp to 592bhp. Jaguar claims a 0-60mph time of 3.3 abnormal and 200mph top speed.
• Jaguar XE SV Project 8 sets new Nurburgring record
The Project 8 actualization a host of race-ready tweaks that ensures alone 25 per cent of the accepted XE’s genitalia are agitated over. In agreement of anatomy panels, alone the beanie and roof are the same, and alike the headlights accept been confused by 14mm to acquiesce allowance for the widened wheelarches.
The Project 8 actualization a host of race-ready tweaks that ensures alone 25 per cent of the accepted XE’s genitalia are agitated over. In agreement of anatomy panels, alone the beanie and roof are the same, and alike the headlights accept been confused by 14mm to acquiesce allowance for the widened wheelarches.
To affirm the authority of the Project 8’s performance, the British marque beatific a archetypal about the Nurburgring and has appropriately claimed the appellation of the fastest four-door alehouse to lap the acclaimed clue with a time of 7:21.20s.
Despite actuality accessible to UK customers, all Project 8s will be left-hand drive. This is to advice with optimum weight distribution. Every car has a rear-biased all-wheel-drive system.
The abysmal advanced splitter, huge rear addition (both are adjustable) and rear diffuser all comedy a allotment in creating downforce, after creating too abundant annoyance at aerial speed, Jaguar claims. The Project 8 gets adapted aluminium anatomy panels, a carbon fibre bonanza and bonnet, as able-bodied as different 20-inch admixture wheels. A quad-exit titanium bankrupt is additionally standard.
Continuously capricious dampers acquiesce the XE to sit 15mm lower on track, while a set of able new carbon bowl brakes and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres are fitted. Finally, there’s an cyberbanking alive cogwheel – a aboriginal for the XE.
Every archetypal gets a comfortable autogenous with appropriate Achievement seats and different Oyster adverse stitching; in the rear the three seats accomplish way for two sculpted chairs, with added abutment on the squabs and bolsters.
Despite this hardcore appearance, all cars get a 10.2-inch Touch Pro infotainment arrangement with sat-nav and a 4G WiFi hotspot. There’s additionally a 12.3-inch agenda apparatus array featuring new Dynamic-i software that adds a alarm and G-force meter.
A Clue Pack is available, which ditches the rear seats and adds magnesium-framed buckets with four-point harnesses in the front. Clue Pack cars are 12.2kg lighter, and get a appearance atramentous roof and twin-stripe decals.
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Project 8 is the additional limited-edition archetypal from JLR’s Appropriate Vehicle Operations. The division’s bang-up gives some accomplishments on the new creation.
Q: Why accept the XE for the new Project car?
A: “The designers and engineers at Appropriate Operations are consistently advancing up with wild, crazy ideas. And the abstraction of the best powerful, acute road-going Jaguar alehouse anytime seemed to be the craziest and the best appropriate now. Once you adjudge that, again the XE makes sense, because it’s our best active alehouse and has the aluminium platform.”
Q: Did Project 7 barter accept ascribe into the idea? And will you be giving them aboriginal abnegation on Project 8?
A: “We didn’t argue them anon but we do accept a abutting accord with them in general. And yes, I anticipate we’ll be talking to them about Project 8.”
Q: You’ve said in the accomplished that you could accept fabricated 500 Project 7s instead of 250. So why are you alone authoritative 300 Project 8s?
A: “There’s still not a lot of science in the number! But allotment of Project 7’s address was its rarity. So 300 is 50 added cars, but still exclusive.”
Q: There’s not alike a ‘regular’ XE SVR at the moment. Could Project 8 legitimise that model?
A: “We accept no audible affairs for an XE SVR, I accept to say. Who knows area we’ll be in 12 months’ time, if acknowledgment to Project 8 is able enough.”
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