JAGUAR XKR-S GT: Gloucestershire Jaguar's venerable XK coupe goes even more hardcore in the shape of this ultra-exclusive, ￡135k monster

摘要

IT WOULD HAVE been interesting to be a fly on the wall during the board meeting in which the new ￡135,000 XKR-S GT was given the green light. Because this, after all, is not a car that's likely to bolster Jaguar Land Rover's profit margins, despite its knee-trembling price tag. Even so, it's an important car for the company because, if nothing else, it shows just how boldly Jaguar is thinking nowadays. A decade ago a car as wild as the bespoilered, bewinged, 186mph XKR-S GT wouldn't have been given a moment's thought by the Jaguar top brass, but now it's here, in the flesh, grabbing the headlines and running with them in a manner that is totally out of proportion to the amount of money it cost to develop.