Jaguars are known for their speed. You don’t have to be a Jaguar mechanic or even a car expert to know that. You just have to be alive. And you haven’t truly lived until you’ve pushed a limited edition Jaguar to the absolute limits of physics at the Nürburgring. But let’s face the sad fact. Most of us haven’t.
But at least one lucky test driver did recently. Makes us want to quit our jobs and question the epitome of our pointless existence. Jaguar was recently spotted testing its limited-edition XE SV Project 8 at the Nürburgring last October.
And no, they weren’t just out joy riding, though we’re sure it must have been a blast. Rumors have it they may be planning to challenge the outright Nürburgring record for 4-door cars.
“The current record is the 6:57.5 set by the highly modified Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR earlier this year, though the Subaru is a one-off that isn’t street-legal,” Motor Authority reports. “When it comes to production 4-door cars, the record is the 7:32 set by the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio in 2016.”
The Price of Pure Awesomeness
Jaguar plans to build and sell 300 examples of the XE SV Project 8. How much will it set you back? Around $192,000. Sure, that’s steep, fatter than our mechanic’s piggy banks, but the car is handbuilt by Jaguar Land Rover’s SVO division. In other words, you get a lot for your money. This is no soccer mom mobile.
“Under the hood sits Jaguar’s familiar 5.0-liter supercharged V-8, tuned here to deliver 592 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque,” Motor Authority reports. “This is the engine’s highest tune yet and makes the XE SV Project 8 the most powerful Jaguar road car to date. Jaguar says the 0-60 mph sprint happens in just 3.3 seconds and a top speed of 200 mph is possible.”
