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[edit] Top Gear

The XJ-S has been featured on BBC's Top Gear television series several times:

• Richard Hammond used a 1985 XJ-S HE as a test car to see the advantages of weight reduction by stripping the car of all of its amenities. With The Stig behind the wheel, the stock car had a 0-60mph time of 8.6 seconds. After stripping out 223kg (491.6lb) of weight (to Jason Dawe's dismay), the Jaguar the time was only 7.4 seconds. The 0-100mph time was also improved by five seconds. (Series 1 Episode 9, 22 December 2002)
• In the next series the stripped down '85 Jaguar (described as "old, rusty and basically worthless") was pitted against various exotic cars in standing quarter mile to see which country builds the world's best supercar. In a drag race against the German Porsche 911 Turbo, the Japanese Honda NSX, the American Chevrolet Corvette, the French Venturi Atlantique, and the Italian Ferrari 360 the Jaguar fared poorly, coming in last and very far behind all the other cars with a time of eighteen and a half seconds. Hammond then decided to cheat and had installed a NOS nitrous system on the car that added up 200hp for a total of 500hp. The race was then rerun and the Jaguar XJ-S then did the quarter mile in only thirteen seconds, beating all the other cars with the Porsche coming second and the Ferrari third. (Series 2 Episode 3, 25 May 2003)
• The original (black-suited) Stig was "killed" when he went 109mph in a modified XJ-S on the HMS Invincible, flying off the deck. All that was found of him was his glove. (Series 3 Episode 1, 26 October 2003)
• James May tested a XJ-S that had been modernized by Knowles-Wilkins Engineering to correct many of the original's flaws and was very impressed. (Series 4 Episode 6, 13 June 2004) May later used a Knowles-Wilkins XJ-S convertible to successfully traverse much of France in another television programme, Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure. [1]
• For a Cheap Car Challenge, the "£1500 coupé that isn't a Porsche challenge", James May purchased an XJ-S HE. He spent £1100 buying it, and it proved to be the least reliable car out of a group of three cars, the others being a Mitsubishi Starion and a BMW 635CSi. Despite this it managed to outlast the rival cars to ultimately win the challenge. However the presenters decided to declare the Starion as the best car of the challenge since it lost due to Clarkson fitting an oversized turbocharger for the final endurance race that overwhelmed the cooling system. (Series 6 Episode 2, 29 May 2005)

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