Why Jaguar Sued Its Best Customers

The Jaguar XJ220 didn't just break production car speed records; it shattered the hearts of the billionaires who ordered it. In the late 1980s, the supercar world was defined by uncompromised poster cars—until a group of off-hours Jaguar engineers created a 12-cylinder, all-wheel-drive monster that promised to rule them all.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" — out now. The true story of global power has been whitewashed by the victors and the fixers. This book tells the side of history they tried to bury. 👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏎️ IN THIS EPISODEIn 1988, the Jaguar XJ220 concept arrived as a spectacular, V12-powered tribute to Jaguar’s Le Mans legacy. But by the time it reached production in 1992, the dream had morphed into a beautifully tragic controversy. In this video, we dive into the radical engineering of Britain’s forgotten hypercar and the PR disaster that doomed its legacy. From the legendary "Saturday Club" that built the prototype to the furious lawsuits from customers who felt cheated, we explore how the XJ220 became the fastest car in the world—and why history remembers it as an expensive bait-and-switch.What’s inside:The "Saturday Club" origin: How a secret passion project by Jaguar engineers forced management's hand.The technical compromise: Losing the V12 and all-wheel drive for a twin-turbo V6 and rear-wheel drive.The customer revolt: The economic crash, the spec-sheet swap, and the high-profile lawsuits that followed.The forgotten crown: Why a car that briefly held the production speed record at 217 mph was instantly overshadowed by the McLaren F1.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 LINKS & SUPPORT📚 The book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH📺 Documentary channel: https://youtube.com/@thatjasonhassett🔔 Subscribe for weekly post-mortems on the cars, companies, and engineering decisions that shaped modern motoring.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#JaguarXJ220 #SupercarHistory #SaturdayClub #V6Turbo #TopSpeedRecord #McLarenF1 #TheCarNerd #CarHistory #AutomotiveHistory #90sSupercars #HypercarLegend