Jaguar dominated Le Mans for three consecutive years in 1955, 1956 and 1957 in the D-type. A further two race victories were to follow years later in 1988 and 1990 in the XJR-9LM and XJR-12 ...
Our featured car for this ‘Anatomy Of’ story is one of the mightiest of them all: TWR-Jaguar XJR-9LM chassis no. 488, winner of the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours. Group C had its roots in a class ...
Jaguar will return to the Le Mans 24 hour race this year. The team last won the legendary La Sarthe endurance race twenty years ago in the Silk Cut liveried XJR-12 racer, but has had a distinctly ...
Jaguar will build just 394 examples. Why 394? That's the number of laps the Le Mans-winning XJR-9 covered in 1988, traveling the equivalent of 3,313.7 miles, roughly the distance from Miami to ...
Produced from 1990 until 1992, 53 of these Jaguar supercars were made. Basically a Le Mans prototype race car for the road, the XJR-15 came equipped with a mid-mounted 6.0-liter V12 engine making ...
Jaguar won the prestigious Le Mans 24 Hours in 1988 with its XJR-9 sporting the legendary ‘Silk Cut’ purple livery, and now the British brand is paying tribute to that iconic victory with the ...
Moreover, it could produce close to 650 hp in the early development stage, which was not far from what the Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR-12's heavier twelve-cylinder could deliver. The initial race ...
Le frère d'Alain Ferté a en effet participé 13 fois aux 24 Heures du Mans et a terminé deuxième du classement général en 1991, lorsqu'il partageait une Jaguar XJR-12 avec Davy Jones et Raul ...