Jaguar / Jaguar XJ220 Concept Car

The super two seated Jaguar XJ220 concept car

The Jaguar XJ220 concept car is a two-seater supercar produced by British luxury vehicle constructor Jaguar from 1992 until 1994, in collaboration with the expert automotive and race technology business Tom Walkinshaw rushing. The XJ220 held the record for the fastest production car all through 1992 after notes a peak hasten of 213.1 mph (343.0 km/h), before being superseded by the McLaren F1 in 1993, and held the Nьrburgring production vehicle lap record between 1992 and 2000 with a time of 7:46.36. The FIA Group B guidelines guided the notion in the direction of a mid-engine, four-wheel propel layout, with a Jaguar V12 motor as the power source. The notion vehicle was conceived and built at very little cost to Jaguar, as Randle called in favors from component suppliers and technology companies he and Jaguar had worked with in the past. In come back he offered public acknowledgement for their assistance and dangled the likelihood of future agreements from Jaguar.

Motor and transmission

Jaguar and motor designer Walter Hassan had before created a 48-valve variant of their V12 motor expressly for motorsport use. It boasted a twice overhead camshaft layout with four valves per cylinder, compared with the lone overhead camshaft and two valves per cylinder of the production engine, which was utilized in the Jaguar XJ and Jaguar XJS models at the time.
The mid-engine perplexing the design of the four-wheel drive scheme, and an innovative answer was needed to get propel from the back of the engine to the front wheels. The selected design took the front-wheel propel from the central differential on the back transaxle and sent it through the V in the centre of the motor using a quill propel, before connecting an inverted differential. The clutch was a twin-plate unit conceived by AP rushing.

Bodywork and interior

The conceive brief for the exterior constrained the use of aerodynamic aides, and directed for a stylish yet functional body alike to the Jaguar D-Type. Pull and lift were restricted at the envisioned ground clearance for street use, but the design allowed for added down force when the vehicle was set up for rushing; the body made round 3,000 lb (1,400 kg) of down force at 200 mph (320 km/h). The concept was furthermore intended to have a variable back wing that bent into the bodywork at smaller races. Aerodynamic work was undertaken at the Motor commerce study Association breeze tunnel using a 1:4 scale form, as the task was unable to allowance for a full-scale mock-up. The Jaguar XJ220 concept car had a Connolly Leather-trimmed interior made by Callow & Maddox, and was fitted with front and back heated windscreens, electric powered windows, air conditioning, warmed electrically adjustable seats with an Alpine Electronics CD player.

Transmission

Four-wheel propel was determined against early in the development method, for a number of causes. It was thought rear-wheel drive would be ample in the majority of situations, that the added complexity of the four-wheel propel scheme would hinder the development method and potentially be awkward for the clientele.