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Unleash the moustache comb, ready your finest karate chop and begin stacking piles of empty cardboard boxes: the Jensen Interceptor is back!
British firm CPP – the company behind the mad Bowler off-roader – has confirmed that it will bring this sleek four-seater into production next year, complete with all-aluminium chassis and ‘ultra-exclusive’ price tag.
It will be built at Jaguar’s former Browns Lane plant in Coventry, and will
bear the Interceptor name: CPP was appointed to engineer and build the car by
Healey Sports Car Switzerland (HSCS), which owns the rights to the Jensen name.
Don’t confuse this car with the spruced-up Seventies classic that inspired the
telly boys to become ‘The Interceptors’ in the last series: that car used a
classic Interceptor body underpinned with some very modern Corvette bits. This
is an all-new car. CPP hasn’t released any technical details, but we’d expect
the new Interceptor to get a historically accurate V8 under the bonnet (the
original used 6.2- and 7.2-litre Chrysler blocks), albeit with rather more
power than its predecessors. These days you can’t keep pace with suspiciously
swarthy baddies unless you’re packing at least 500bhp.
CPP says the first production Interceptors will arrive in 2012, though the
first customers won’t receive their orders under 2014, which gives them plenty
of time to groom their handlebar moustaches to a state of bushy, twitchy
readiness.
But can the new Interceptor possibly be as cool enough to impress James Steed,
Roger St. Hammond and Jason Clarkson?
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What do you think?
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ferrariboy90 commented on this article
at 02:46 pm on 20 September 2011
it looks brilliant!! hope they improve handling issues and use a turbocharged engine first comment yay!
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f40man commented on this article
at 03:19 pm on 20 September 2011
Does this mean the British car industry is coming back? Any way the design looks good and hopefully will be just as fast
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Takk commented on this article
at 03:48 pm on 20 September 2011
@ferrariboy90: you're thinking of GT4, aren't you? That one was a female dog alright. I couldn't make it do a corner without losing all streetcred. This sketch looks rather *fill in anything positive*. Nicely retro without trying too hard. The front looks a bit '90's Mitsubishi though.
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pires.josem commented on this article
at 04:17 pm on 20 September 2011
It looks awesome. Hope not to be disappointed when they build it.
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MarlonS69 commented on this article
at 04:55 pm on 20 September 2011
@ferrariboy90. Really?! Are you 10 years old?
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