Given that the XJR-15 is by every means a race car, it is not particularly comfortable or fitting around town. But isn’t that the whole point? Let’s just explore that for a moment. The car has a 6.0 liter V12 taken from a LeMans competitor and modified to fit into a new and improved tub. Though the XJR-15 actually uses a 6.0 Liter, there were also 5 LM cars which utilized the original 7.4 L… How mental is that?! The car has no sound deadening or fancy filler materials. It is a carbon fiber tub and chassis, with a double wishbone push-rod suspension bolted to a racing spec engine. You can smell, hear and feel every emotion of what racing in the 90s must have been like. After flipping each system switch into the ‘on’ position, you are ready to crank the car to life. It will want to take a second but eventually the glorious V12 will scream awake and you will be ready to rock. The folks at Jaguar Sport made sure to include some rather useful headphones and a integrated comm system in the car should you have a passenger and wish to talk. Unfortunately, without them you WILL NOT be able to hear yourself or your guest while the car is running, it is indeed that loud. Entering the car was incredibly difficult yet 100% what you’d expect out of a proper race car- a centralized tub. I have an enormous amount of respect for the drivers of LeMans that withstand these circumstances for 7/8 hours at a time.

To dive more into this beautiful one of a kind machine, I wanted to point out some key elements I just couldn’t go without mentioning. The massive OZ wheels that were fitted in 1990 are still just as revolutionary as ever. The car has two fluid entry ports on the body, driver side for OIL and passenger side for GAS. The cars massive 6.0 L V12 sits directly behind the thin carbon wall, and you can see every hose, line, and port completely from the exterior. TWR had zero intention of adding weight in places where the XJR-9 did not need it. In order to make this a fundamentally road capable car it only needed three things really; AC, comm system, and some road safety. There are no creature comforts to be seen and you best believe you won’t need them. The seat is effectively one very thin piece of material- to keep you as low and responsive as possible. Zero to 60 came in at just under 3.9 seconds with a top speed of 191 MPH. If in 1990 this was considered the benchmark for road going super cars, Jaguar Sport entered the fight with something that wouldn’t be matched for decades. As the great Tiff Needell said on the XJR-15 “the handling is EXCITING, to say the least” as he was storming around Silverstone in one of the first examples- he went on to give props to the XJR-15 as a truly exceptional road-race car. For us enthusiasts, just a chance to drive a truly remarkable car like this is everything super car fans dream of.

Check out the Jaguar Sport XJR-15 below