[MattKellett]

I believe the car lost customers through shear bad luck!

The V12 was just going to be too hard to meet emissions and was just going to be too heavy. The weight the car was going to carry with the V12 and 4 wheel drive would tip the scales too high for a tire to survive 220mph.

By dropping the V12 for the turbo V6 meant emissions could be met and with the weight savings of also removing the 4wd, tires could meet requirements. It should be noted that the V6 was a motorsports engine, first used in the Metro 6r4 group B rally car and subsequently in the Le Mans TWR sports race car, producing way more horsepower than the V12 could hope for.

These two main reasons gave most of the 1500 deposit customers the reason for backing out. As when the car started production the economic collapse at the end of the 80’s had occurred.

Speculators retreated with several deciding to sue Jaguar. I believe it took around 6 years for them to sell the 250 cars they built.

I think they’re stunning, but just so huge! I think they’ve dated fairly well in my opinion.