It was a side project from TWR which Jaguar decided to sponsor on the side. Their main focus was the XJ220.

@@traviswalker8933 God bless Tom

I remember there was a kerfuffle when the 220 got the Turbo 6 instead of the V12. Made the XJR-15 much more desirable with it's actual V12.

The XJ220 was the faster car with way, way higher potential for power. The standard XJ22O had 542bhp the XJ220S had 680bhp! The V12 was heavy, down on power and way down on torque. The only benefit would be a nicer soundtrack and that's about it. Turbo's were the thing in the 80s and into the 90s with the XJ220s competition being the F40 (although the F40 was awful compared to the Jag, being a stripped out racer. Even the performance figures were bollocks/BS due to the Italian habit of lying about power outputs and performance figures!) and the Porsche 959 (a car that actually had a very high quality interior and technology not needing stripping out to perform!) with both cars using relatively small capacity, twin turbo charged engines. Though the XJ220 annihilated both performance wise!

@@davekennedy6315 I agree. The V6 was essentially a modified V64V engine from the 6R4-a masterpiece of an engine! Unfortunately, though the XJ220 was just stunning, everything else about the car was poorly done by TWR. Cheapy Ford Fiesta switches, high weight and terrible build quality on the most expensive car in the world is not much good IMO... By the time TWR brought out the much lighter and more powerful S version all the damage had been done. Still....soooooo gorgeous!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@@rooramblingon895 yeah those looks excuse a lot. Drives tend to really like the car too. Yeah it had its issues but just look at the F40 in comparison? It had literally nothing inside to get the weight down enough to make its power count (and knowing Ferrari their figures were probably all BS anyway! I remember seeing a race between an F40 and a Porsche 959 that on paper was slower across the board. In reality the 959 whipped the F40 on everything, yet still had a luxury interior and was a far more comfortable and usable car)

@@rooramblingon895 whoops, apologies if any of that is repeated.

I think you've probably just nailed it.... So similar in design

I never knew about the XJR-15 but I can see the similarities now!

Not sure, racing cars made road worthy always lack popularity.

Its always been surprising to me how unknown this car is! I've always really liked it, and I'm glad I'm able to share it!

@@automobilistic I know about this car ever since I've driven it in NFS Hot Pursuit 3.

The only reason I have any idea about this car is that I was a young lad growing up in the UK and I remember it being in the press and TV at the time I wish we could have seen it on our roads but we were never lucky enough 😢

Thanks! Plenty more on the way

Good suggestion, I'll add it to the list!

Sorry for being late on reply, I've watched alot of documentaries on the McLaren f1, Peter helped style the F1 after he and Gordon finished wind tunnel testing, Gordon wanted the f1 to be a clean slate with the smallest amount of drag possible with the cockpit specs intact, Peter did the clay moulding and finishing shape touches, everything was still Gordons vision from start to finish but Peter helped bring it to life if that makes sense.

Different times. The F1's V12 was essentially a built BMW V12 from their 8 Series which itself only had around 400 or so HP in the BMW cars themselves. More than 600hp on a road-going car at the time was pretty massive. The XJR 15 probably did have more than 450hp though.

and what exactly is the disadvantage normally associated with right-hand drive cars?

once you get used to change gears with your left, its pretty handy cuz your dominant hand is always on the steering wheel

@@gordon2zz778 yes, i've heard people say that, but steering input with a single hand in the short time your hand is off the wheel during shifting isn't meaningful. even if you were to spend several seconds with only one hand on the wheel, it being your dominant hand vs non-dominant isn't going to make any difference. the dexterity of your dominant hand comes in many times more handy at shifting than steering.

@@automobilistic most people are right handed, so wrong hand drive has you shifting with your non-dom hand. holding on to a wheel is much easier than shifting. only really matters if the car is manual tho :/

It's right-hand drive, not wrong-hand drive.