The Jaguar XE SV Project 8 Is A 592bhp Super Saloon Weapon
Two years after launching the XE, Jaguar still hasn’t whipped up a hot ‘XE SVR’. The company insists it has no plans to either. However, what it has done is make a really hot, limited-edition XE, and it’s called the SV Project 8.
Only 300 will be built, each with a supercharged 5.0-litre V8 up front making 592bhp. Yep, nearly 600bhp - that’s BMW M5/Mercedes-AMG E63 levels of power in a compact saloon. If you listen carefully, you’ll probably be able to hear an M3 crying in the corner.
Jaguar isn’t divulging a whole lot right now, and indeed hasn’t given us a full look at the car without camouflage. We can however see it’s packing some quite serious aero, and Jag has revealed that the car has been testing at the Nurburgring - expect some sort of bonkers lap time to be revealed in the near future.
The XE SV is the second ‘Collectors’ Edition’ car from by Jaguar’s Special Vehicle Operations - the first being the F-Type Project 7 - and will be hand-built at the SVO Technical Centre in Coventry.
All this begs the question: why not make a lightly watered down, mass production version? If the V8 fits in the XE’s engine bay, it’d be rude not to. Go on Jaguar, you know you want to…
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Comments
Come on Jaguar! An XE with a V8 and power in the 450-500 range would be quite capable of humiliating the competition and would give the brand the status in this class that it so clearly deserves.
Should have a BTCC version
What took them so long?!
Make more of them
I wish it didn’t have the annoying livery. It kinda makes it hard to see.
Seriously!?? They’re making this, but not an XE SVR!? And yet they’re building a stupid F pace SVR.
Jaguar has lost my respect in some ways, and I hope they get this message. BUILD AN XE AND XF SVR!! FFS
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