The Jaguar XKR-S GT isn’t your average gentleman’s V8 coupe. This is the most extreme road-going Jaguar ever: a supercharged, 542bhp powerhouse fitted with bucket seats, a roll cage, and massively uprated suspension, brakes and aerodynamics to give a look and feel totally alien to any other Jaguar.
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Only 10 of these XKR-S GTs will ever come to the UK in right-hand drive, and they’ll cost a cool £130,000 each. Still, that didn’t stop CAR’s Ben Barry belting up and thrashing the one of them around Rockingham circuit. Has Jaguar has pulled off the stripped-out road-racer trick? Found out here…
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