Behind the Wheel of the Jaguar XE SV Project 8

The most powerful street-legal Jaguar ever is a sedan.

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00:00 Ok so a couple of laps in Jaguar's XE Project A, built by a really small team of engineers

00:19 and the concept is simple.

00:24 Create Jaguar's smallest car, the XE, and put in their biggest honking supercharged

00:30 V8.

00:31 So this thing has 600 PS, 592 horsepower and to contain some of that performance it's

00:59 four wheel drive which is a bit unusual I guess for this sort of car.

01:04 There's a track height and a road height, suspension system, driven it on the road already

01:09 surprisingly works pretty well.

01:17 Great brakes, engine is a monster, gearbox, ZF 8-speed works surprisingly well on the

01:23 track.

01:24 Chassis is really sweetly balanced, yeah you can slide it, you can be precise with it.

01:34 It gives you options and not all four wheel drive cars do that.

01:39 You also don't get boring, understeery, heavy feeling that you can get with a four wheel

01:47 drive system, not just noisy but actually focused and really drilled down.

01:56 It feels cohesive in the way it's been executed but it's still got a hot rod feeling which

02:03 is what you want.

02:04 I mean you want it to feel a bit silly if you're spending this much money.

02:10 (electronic music)

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