The TWR Supercat Is a Jaguar XJS With 600 HP of V-12 Energy
What higher means for Tom Walkinshaw Racing to make its return than by respiratory new life right into a forgotten Jaguar?
The British motorsport firm, which is usually referred to as TWR, is again greater than twenty years after its demise with a roadgoing restomod referred to as the Supercat. The pinnacle-turning grand tourer relies on the Jaguar XJS and is one thing of a non secular successor to the agency’s most well-known creations, the XJ220 and XJR-15.
TWR is among the most profitable British racing groups in trendy historical past. It labored with a number of automakers, however its most fruitful partnership was with Jaguar. Collectively the duo received the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, in 1988 and 1990, and constructed a pair of racing-inspired, street-legal supercars, the XJ2200 and XJR-15, underneath the JaguarSport identify. Monetary points had sunk the corporate by 2002 however it’s up and working once more underneath the stewardship of its late namesake’s son, Fergus Walkinshaw.
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It’s solely becoming that the brand new TWR’s first car could be based mostly on a Jag, even when the XJS has largely been forgotten since going out of manufacturing within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. The restomod appears extra muscular due to its closely sculpted hood and fenders, although the unique design’s elegant drawn-out form and swooping strains nonetheless come by clearly. TWR isn’t prepared to indicate off the car’s inside simply but, however it’s arduous to not be impressed by what it’s shared up to now.
The Supercat, just like the XJS earlier than it, will likely be powered by a V-12. TWR hasn’t mentioned how huge the 12-cylinder mill will likely be, however it will likely be supercharged and is anticipated to provide greater than 600 horses. It’ll even be related to a six-speed guide that sends energy to the rear set of wheels. No efficiency numbers have been offered, however it wouldn’t be remotely stunning to study that the automotive is quick—on the very least sooner than the XJS.
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The Supercat is anticipated to make its full debut on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace this July. TWR has introduced that it’s going to construct simply 88 examples of the car. The retromod received’t come low cost, with construct slots beginning at £225,000 (or roughly $280,000 by the present alternate fee).
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