Thursday, August 26, 2004

XJ220

Just thought I'd mention that the garage next door had a special guest yesterday. Mrs Rasmussen and I were driving up Spylaw Street when a huge, black monster filled the street. It wasn't a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, and when it passed, it said "Jaguar" on its rear.
I had to find out which Jaguar it was, and a bit of Googling found that it was a Jaguar XJ220, put into production in 1991 as the world's fastest production car. 275 were built, but they were so expensive that they were very hard to sell.
It may not look of much on pictures, but in real life, on the street, wau.
Underneath its rear window lies a 3.5 litres V6 twin turbo with 542 bhp that can blast the XJ220 to 125 mph (nearly 190 kmh) in less than 12 seconds.
Sorry 'bout that. Matthias thought it was cool too.