To celebrate the British International Motor Show this year we picked our 100 best British cars. Check out our selection to help you choose your favourite home-grown motor.
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14 Jaguar XJ220 (page 14 of 25)
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Born from the TWR-Jaguar racing programme, the XJ220 was a modern-day successor to the stillborn XJ13 V12 from 1966: a proper mid-engined supercar. The prototype's 48-valve 6.2-litre quad-cam V12 made over 500bhp, and Jaguar, by now owned by Ford, promised 220mph and 0-60mph in 3.8 seconds - it was to be the world's fastest production car, a road-going version of the 1988 Le Mans winner. The 1989 production car had a turbocharged V6 instead, producing 542bhp, which was still good for 200mph and 0-60 in four seconds. But it was the collapse of the supercar collectors' market that did for the £290,000 XJ220; just 280 were made.
