A highlight was overall victory for the Group C XJR-9 at Le Mans in 1988. This prompted TWR to develop a road-going version of this race car, using much of its technology and mechanical components.

Designed in collaboration with Porsche tuner Magnus Walker, TWR's restomod has racing roots and comes with a manual.

In fact, it was basically a street-legal production version of Jaguar's Le Mans-winning XJR-9 racecar. To accomplish this, Jaguar started a joint collaboration with Tom Walkinshaw Racing ...

Those races were won by two different (but related) cars, the XJR-9 and XJR-12, both of which were built by Tom Wilkenshaw Racing. The builder was able to convince the automaker that there would ...

The Jag itself was technologically advanced as well as historically significant, being the first road car to use a carbon tub and carbon panels, but Tom Walkinshaw’s idea of making an XJR-9 for ...

The most noteworthy of these was certainly the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR-9, which cracked Porsche’s seven-year streak of victory at the prestigious race, and also earned Jaguar ...

more. Lots more. In exchange for your shillings, you’ll be getting the world’s first car to sport a carbon fibre body, and the follow-up to the hugely successful XJR-9 and XJR-12 prototypes ...

"I’m very inspired by the 70s and 80s era – IMSA, Trans-Am, Group A touring cars – but also original Jaguar design – the XJR-9, XJR-15, and most importantly the XJ220," he explains.

Its racing exploits saw the V12 used by Jaguar's official team, called Tom Walkinshaw Racing, and powered the Le Mans winning XJR-9 of 1988. It later appeared in the XJR12 and the Lister Storm ...