Re: Good looks, but hp a waste it uses the same engine as the XJ12, and the XJS... that's why the HP is low. it's not a true jaguar racing engine like the XJR12, giving off 700hp.
Re: Good looks, but hp a waste Look at the valvetrain! There's your answer. 2 valves? TWO VALVES! It's because it's not getting enough air . Yup, that's it.
Re: Good looks, but hp a waste wrong, wrong, and wrong. they were originally used in a support series for the european portion of the 1991 F1 season. The racing version came w/ a v-12 7.0 liter 725bhp engine mated to a TWR hewland 6spd. dog box. All but four were detuned for the street, One of the four I am selling on ebay right now. Search for XJR 15.
Re: Good looks, but hp a waste just because it doesn't have a lot of hp doesn't mean it still can't smoke other cars<A BORDER="0" HREF="http://www.supercars.net/emoticons.html"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="http://speed.supercars.net/cboardhtml/emoticons/smile.gif"></A>
Re: Re: i think the stats they are quoting are from the detuned road car not the race track car, cheaper to detune the engine than replace it with a smaller one hence V12 remains installed... anyway if you could afford it would you really care?! you'd just re-tune it!
Re: Good looks, but hp a waste actually, its not so bad, considering, the car does not really need excessive power to perform well, take a look at its power to weight ratio...physics states that weight and acceleration are inversely proprtional to each other, hence, greater mass, less acceleration...this car has a small mass, therefore what a car with twice the power and twice mass can do, so can this car...its more a case of not needing that much power to do what the car was built to do...look at the batmobile...
Re: Good looks, but hp a waste yeah but it's 8 years in the future from when this car was built. and dodge used a bigger engine. i think that helps support jaguar engines being more advanced even if its a decade older. or several decades (xj13)