Jaguar enhances XE SV Project 8 racecar
Jaguar Special Vehicle Operations has announced finetuning on the claimed world’s fastest road-going sedan has almost finished, ahead of production starting in June.
Since its public debut at last July’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Jaguar XE SV Project 8 has undergone numerous enhancements to ensure it remains the fastest and most thrilling of all road-legal four-door sedans.
The Project 8 is a four-door car with genuine supercar performance.
Top speed is 200 mph and 0-60 mph acceleration takes just 3.4 seconds.
In November, it set a new four-door production-intent sedan record around the Nurburgring Nordschleife – the ‘gold’ standard for all-around high performance.
Its fastest lap of 7 minutes 21.23 seconds was quicker than many supercars, and broke the old four-door record by more than 10 seconds.
With a 592 hp version of the legendary supercharged Jaguar 5.0-liter V8, the XE SV Project 8 is the most powerful Jaguar road car to date.
No more than 300 of these limited edition cars will be made; all hand-built by Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations at its Technical Center in Coventry.
Unlike most high performance production sedans, the all-wheel drive XE SV Project 8 is studded with genuine motor racing technology.
This includes, as standard, adjustable ride height, adjustable camber, an adjustable front splitter and rear wing, a flat underbody, a differential oil cooler, Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 road-legal track tires on forged 20-inch wheels – a production car first – and ceramic wheel bearings similar to those used in grand prix cars.
The front uprights, two-part upper wishbones, ball joints in place of rubber bushings, twin coil springs, dampers, lower suspension bushings, rollover protection system4 and latest specification carbon ceramic brakes are all new and bespoke to the XE SV Project 8.
The only carryover body components from the standard XE are the roof and front door skins, both made from aluminum.