A big cat left to die

[exigeracer]

Not when it is a XJ220. Man this is incredible.

What if guy is dead? That would be more important...

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Umm... It's called a will?

 

[Jim Prower]

If there's no will, it'd go straight to a government auction to be sold to...someone else insanely rich, I guess.

 

[Rue]

I am blocked from seeing the article. Where is this?

EDIT: Forget my comment, it's in Qatar.

 

[MrCoty]

I thought this was the Auto News section? Wouldn't this be a better fit in the General Cars forum?

 

[maximumattack]

I thought this was the Auto News section? Wouldn't this be a better fit in the General Cars forum?

I'd say that this was news, after all we are discussing something we read as a news article on a different car news website, are we not?

 

[Jondot]

Can we raise enough cash to send Moglet and his amazing array of cleaning equipment out there?

We can make a difference, people!

 

[Robin]

We can make a difference, people!

Yeah we need to get a team together to go out on a rescue mission...

Anyone got a boat?...and a winch

 

[maximumattack]

I've got a Leatherman, you can almost guarantee it'll be useful for something on the mission

 

[Terronium-12]

There's no explanation for that.

Not an explanation I'd want to hear of anyway. I grew up drooling over the XJ220 - give it to me, I'll take damn good care of it - I'll even find a way to give it the V12 it deserves.

 

[Philly]

I'll go with the assumption that it was some rich person who went bankrupt and fled the country or something.

 

[TheCracker]

I'll even find a way to give it the V12 it deserves.

Don't know why everyone gets so hung up on the should-have-had-a-V12 thing. All the best Jags have always had 6-cylinder engines. It was always going to be a better balanced car with a smaller, lighter drivetrain.

 

[Terronium-12]

Don't know why everyone gets so hung up on the should-have-had-a-V12 thing. All the best Jags have always had 6-cylinder engines. It was always going to be a better balanced car with a smaller, lighter drivetrain.

For pretty much the exact same reason a lot of us are still hung up on why F1 cars are using V8's now. Of course price was/became an issue on both accounts, but there's no getting around the fact that V12's sound better, provide more power (given certain circumstances of course). If you designed a vehicle with the intention of using a V10 but you had to resort to using an inline-6 for one reason or another, you'd expect people to talk about it.

Of course, that's an entirely different engine dynamic but the general theory is still the same.

 

[mafia_boy]

But the XJ220 uses a V6, not an I6, with two decent sized snails hanging off it.

The V6 produced more power than the V12 they were going to use ever did (that V12 was a 510hp 6.2L V12 by the way). Also, find another FACTORY V6 that produces as much power that the XJ220 did which was 540hp. Won't find any I'm afraid.

 

[Terronium-12]

But the XJ220 uses a V6, not an I6, with two decent sized snails hanging off it.

The V6 produced more power than the V12 they were going to use ever did (that V12 was a 510hp 6.2L V12 by the way). Also, find another FACTORY V6 that produces as much power that the XJ220 did which was 540hp. Won't find any I'm afraid.

The VR38 has the potential seeing as each one is assembled by hand, I don't know what the highest natural output is to date, but they have tipped 500+.

 

[mafia_boy]

Usually, they are between 485-505hp, depending on whether it was built on a Monday around 10am or a Friday around 5pm.

 

[TheCracker]

For pretty much the exact same reason a lot of us are still hung up on why F1 cars are using V8's now.

How old are you! - V8's have been predominant in F1 since 1967.

 

[Blitz187]

Usually, they are between 485-505hp, depending on whether it was built on a Monday around 10am or a Friday around 5pm.

Make sense to certain degree... Slacking on Fridays to celebrate weekend...