The Jaguar XJR-6 is one of the Jaguar entries the open record knows by name, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable. Its designer of record is Tony Southgate.
How it came about
The Jaguar XJR-6 is a Group C sports prototype race car, designed, developed and built by TWR, with the aim of competing, from 1985, in the World Sportscar Championship. A total of six Jaguar XJR-6s were built and they contested in the World Sportscar Championship until 1986, before Jaguar replaced them with the Jaguar XJR-8.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Jaguar's history is not in doubt: the Jaguar XJR-8 followed it. Its Jaguar stablemates include the F-Type and the Vanden Plas.
The money
EPA combined economy is 21 mpg, about $4,450 a year in fuel at the EPA's assumptions. Condition, mileage and specification move any single car a long way from a headline figure.