Classics Monthly

GRAHAM ROBSON

When the classic car ‘investment boom’ was at its height in the late 1980s, quite a few entrepreneurs saw this as a licence to print their own money. More than one such project was promised which proved to be mainly hot air and didn't progress beyond the stage of ‘wouldn’t it be good...?’ On the other hand Jaguar, and the fabulous XJ220 hypercar, was different.

The fact that the XJ220 which went on sale in 1992 was almost totally different from that original machine is

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