Another stunt vehicle from “Specter,” the Jaguar C-X75, has been sold. Jaguar previously celebrated its 50th anniversary with the exceedingly premium coupé – and 007 himself was pursued by a criminal. A C-X75 from “Specter” is expected to be auctioned in Abu Dhabi by the end of 2019; another replica is now for sale in the United Kingdom.
With the C-X75, Jaguar commemorated its 75th anniversary at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. And they didn’t go overboard; after all, the British had lost out on not just a magnificent design, but also a brilliant drive. Four electric wheel hub motors and two tiny gas turbines worked as range extenders in the C-X75 exhibition vehicle. The technology produced 780 horsepower and propelled the supercar from 0 to 100 in three seconds.
Instead of a little series, a movie vehicle is used.
Jaguar had no clue which path the automobile will go at the moment.
Originally, a limited batch of 250 vehicles was planned to be released in collaboration with Williams Advanced Engineering, the development division of the same-named Formula One team. Unfortunately, owing to Jaguar’s financial woes, this never transpired.
The C-X75, on the other hand, became a cinematic star. The automobile may be seen in a furious car pursuit through Rome in the James Bond adventure “Specter” from 2015. Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista), the villain, seeks to lure 007 himself (Daniel Craig) inside the Aston Martin DB10. For some, it ends up in the river, while for others, it ends up on the nose of a flaming automobile.
For the filming, Williams created seven C-X75 replicas. The one with the appropriate chassis number 007 is now available for purchase:
Its present owner is selling one of the movie vehicles for 720,000 pounds net in Specter Trim via the web portal “Pistonheads” and the British luxury automobile and vintage car dealer Simon Drabble Cars; a buyer from Germany would have to spend a little more than a million euros for the car. The vendor and Simon Drabble are both oblivious to technical details. However, according to the dealer’s website, this C-X75 was initially delivered straight to the present seller by Jaguar Land Rover, and it has since been serviced by the local classic department.
In 2019, it was unsuccessfully auctioned.
The car with chassis number 007, however, is not the first Specter Jaguar C-X75 to be sold. One of the stunt vehicles was auctioned off at RM Sotheby’s as part of the Formula 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi 2019.
The auction house predicted a price of between 800,000 and 1.2 million dollars at the time (today the equivalent of between 712,000 and 1.07 million euros). Despite the exotic sports vehicle’s extravagant history and the presumably rich audience, no one offered enough money to purchase the sports car.
The film cars feature a V8 compressor from a Jaguar F-Type instead of a gas turbine hybrid motor.
The fact that the stunt vehicles lack the over-drive of the 2010 show car may have turned off potential purchasers. Instead, the supercharged V8 engine from the Jaguar F-highest Type’s variants is utilised, which generates at least 550 horsepower and 680 Newton meters of torque.
However, in order to make the automobile more controllable for the stunt driver, the power was slightly reduced. The engine was put in the C-X75 as a mid-engine rather than a front-engine. It also doesn’t send power to all four wheels, only the back ones. A mechanical limited-slip differential separates it from the rest of the car.
Rally chassis and space frame
But that isn’t the end of the renovations. The film vehicles feature Ricardo manual six-speed gearboxes with incredibly little shift travel that are consecutively handled using the shift paddle on the left of the steering wheel. This frees up the driver’s right hand, allowing him to focus on the hydraulic handbrake and making lovely drifts with the C-X75.
In addition, the Jaguar features a rally chassis and is based on a tubular space frame with unusually thick steel tubes, using Williams’ WRC experience. After all, the sports vehicle had to be made tough enough and have enough suspension travel to handle travels over Roman cobblestones, antique steps, and hilly embankments, among other things.
The interior is reminiscent of a race car cockpit, since it has been stripped down to its fundamental bones.
The Specter-C-X75 is mainly devoid of comfort features such as panels and upholstery on the inside. Two Recaro bucket seats with six-point belts and controls in the style of a fighter pilot are available, as well as a rotary knob for adjusting the AP Race racing brake.
As an ex-“pod car,” I’m in better form.
The C-X75 with chassis number 24001, which was set to be auctioned in 2019, is in far better condition than the other stunt cars, thanks to Williams overhauling the engine and clutch after shooting. Another reason is that it was used as a “pod vehicle” for filming close-ups of Dave Bautista’s face while driving. The actor did not drive the car himself, instead relying on a stunt driver who sat on a frame erected on the car’s roof. The Jaguar could not be driven as dynamically as its siblings in this arrangement, therefore it suffered less.
The Jaguar C-X75 was supposed to be a limited-edition model, but it gained famous as a movie vehicle instead.
Following then, the C-X75 No. 24001 was seen a lot.
It was mostly driven over the circuit by Williams Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa at the 2015 Mexico Grand Prix to promote the film “Specter.” After that, the car was sold to a collector who drove it a few more miles and showed it off at various occasions. Unfortunately, there is little information on how the automobile fared following the failed Abu Dhabi sale.
The C-X75 isn’t quite as famous as the Aston Martin DB5, but it’s close. The stunt automobile is historically significant, particularly since “Specter” is one of the finest 007 adventures. Furthermore, the Jaguar is far less expensive than the legendary Bond car: the most recent 007-DB5 to be auctioned sold for a comfortable 5.75 million euros in the summer of 2019.
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