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1991 Jaguar XJR-15

United States • 14 Aug 2021

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AI Listing Summary

This 1991 Jaguar XJR-15, chassis number 028, is one of only 27 road-going examples ever produced. Displaying a mere 78 miles, this supercar has been meticulously preserved and recently recommissioned, making it a very desirable collector car.

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The car is described as being in outstanding preservation, with only 78 miles at the time of cataloguing. The listing mentions the carbon body panels are readily visible and the car received an extensive recommissioning in 2021.

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By the mid-to-late 1980s, Jaguar had firmly re-established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the top echelon of motorsport.

Jaguar formed a partnership with Tom Walkinshaw Racing, called Jaguar Sport, in 1986; its objective was to compete, and win, in the same World Sportscar Championship (WSC) where Jaguar had built its racing legacy with its C-Type and D-Type racers.

Jaguar honed the performance credentials of its’ XJR prototype race car platform through various model iterations.

This culminated with the XJR-9 and XJR-12, which won the 1988 and 1990 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as the 1988 WSC Championship, wearing the iconic Silk Cut-sponsored purple and white livery.

This monumental success on the track would form the building blocks for what followed from Jaguar.

Demand for a roadgoing version of the XJR-9 was apparent, and so the thundering, ground-breaking XJR-15 was birthed with development by Jaguar Sport.

The development direction of a “race car f...