SSO Blog: Ferrari F50 to Jaguar XJR-15

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SSO Blog: Ferrari F50 to Jaguar XJR-15

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Just posted a new article on our journey from a Ferrari F50 to a Jaguar XJR-15:

https://karenable.com/car-collecting-jo ... ar-xjr-15/

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Still my choice for most beautiful car ever so wonderful to see more pictures of one being used properly.

Ownership sounds like quite a balance of pleasure and pain, really sounds like TWR made only the minimum effort to make the thing habitable although that's a story of itself apparently. Can't imagine useability like noise and heat insulation would detract from the driving experience at all. Getting the engine into a road spec without the warmup proceedure and low speed manners might be a touch harder.

Interesting to speculate how "good" you could make something like an XJR15 with modern engine management and some effort on insulation and sealing. Resto-modded XJR-15, heresy I know ;)
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RobYob wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:33 am Interesting to speculate how "good" you could make something like an XJR15 with modern engine management and some effort on insulation and sealing. Resto-modded XJR-15, heresy I know ;)
The gentleman I sold the XJR-15 to did exactly that. He installed air-conditioning, modern engine management, and upgraded the suspension. It has made it a vast easier and much better behaved car to drive. However IMHO it actually detracted from what it should be. Half the fun in driving the XJR-15 was having to deal and adapt to the handling, engine management, and Group C cockpit living conditions.
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Evo. "The Thrill of terrifying and obstructive cars" :lol:

Very cool whichever way you favour your XJR-15.

Does the new owner write about it at all?
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RobYob wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:05 pm Evo. "The Thrill of terrifying and obstructive cars" :lol:

Very cool whichever way you favour your XJR-15.

Does the new owner write about it at all?
He doesn't write about it but did participate in a video on the car:

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How I've managed to not catch that Petrolicious before I don't know but thanks, that was 8min of pure porn.

Quite a pair one of those guys has of the XJR-15 and 220S in violent orange :o
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RobYob wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:09 pm How I've managed to not catch that Petrolicious before I don't know but thanks, that was 8min of pure porn.

Quite a pair one of those guys has of the XJR-15 and 220S in violent orange :o
I think the XJ220S has been moved one. He does however have a F40 and Carrera GT.
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