It set a new four-door production car record around the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife last year – the ‘gold’ standard for all-round high performance. Top speed is 321.8 km/h and 0-96 km/h acceleration takes just 3.3 s. Project 8 is a four-door car with genuine supercar performance. The Jaguar XE SV Project 8 development team at Special Vehicle Operations keep pushing boundaries – the drive to do that is in our designers’ and engineers’ blood.” John Edwards, Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations Managing Director, says: “ The fastest high performance saloon in the world just keeps getting faster. Since its public debut at last July’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, the fastest-ever four-door Jaguar has undergone numerous enhancements to ensure Project 8 is the fastest and most thrilling of all road-legal four-door sedans. (Warwickshire, UK – 26 April 2018) Engineering fine-tuning on the new Jaguar XE SV Project 8 has almost finished, ahead of production starting in June. The Nürburgring Nordschleife record underlines our commitment to deliver the most extreme Jaguar ever to Project 8 clients, who will soon experience this sensational sedan for themselves.”
The hand-assembled XE SV Project 8 takes that principle to the limit, extracting supercar-beating performance from Jaguar’s most compact four-door sedan. John Edwards, Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations Managing Director, added: “ SVO exists to push the boundaries of performance, luxury and all-terrain capability. This astonishing Nürburgring Nordschleife record validates the success of such extensive changes.” As a result, only the roof and front door skins of Project 8’s body are carried-over unaltered from XE and 75 percent of its mechanical hardware is new. Mark Stanton, SVO Director, said: “ The SVO design and engineering team’s mission was to create the most track-focused road-legal Jaguar in history – not only the fastest, but also the most agile. The incredible time of 7 min 21.23 s is nearly 11 s quicker than the previous fastest sedan around the legendary 20.7 km German circuit and puts the 441 kW Project 8 ahead of some of the world’s fastest two-door coupés and supercars. (Fen End, UK – 28 November 2017) Jaguar’s SVO-developed XE SV Project 8 is now the world’s fastest four-door car, following a production-intent prototype’s record lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
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