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Maybe it's some misplaced British pride, but we can't help feeling there are some cars that simply shouldn't be modified.
Japanese coupes, massive German saloons, they're fair game - but it's surely sacrilege to take the spanners to the lovely Jaguar XKR?
Not, admittedly, that this effort from German tuning house Arden is one of the worst. No scissor doors or snakeskin leather interior, at least. But that new front clip doesn't do much for the Jag's slinky lines, does it?
Slightly worryingly - you're looking at a 200mph convertible: Arden has bumped power from 510bhp to an F430 Scuderia-pummelling 540bhp courtesy of a new exhaust, with the happy consequence that it'll now top out at a nice round 200mph.
When the roof's down, quite what happens to your face at that speed remains unclear. As, presumably, does your vision.
Still, 200mph or not, we've got to put our foot down here. This modified XKR is a wrongness. Anyone want to disagree?
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Zonda-R commented on this article
at 01:35 pm on 10 August 2009
I love this JAG!!!
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AlKim commented on this article
at 02:05 pm on 10 August 2009
It does 200mph on a runway. In real life, it's limited to 70 by other traffic.
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Chris_D commented on this article
at 02:43 pm on 10 August 2009
With that front end it looks a bit like a toned down version of that Spyker featured a few series ago...not a bad thing but there was no need to change it in the first place
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stevo737 commented on this article
at 03:59 pm on 10 August 2009
One of my favourite cars the jag XKR but this one looks wrong wrong wrong!!! u dont need 200mph jst buy the standard XKR take out the speed limiter and ul be doin about 170mph and ul leave that cock in the M6 for dead! Stephen
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kevinskey commented on this article
at 04:08 pm on 10 August 2009
exactly what I was thinking, I reckon Spyker have a nice law suit on their hands! sacrilege to modify an XKR? Im pretty sure that TG was screaming out for tuners to modify this car when it was featured on the show
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