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Why the Jaguar C-X75 was never made ?

Jaguar's C-X75 : The concept that never made it to production !

C-X75 the car started as a show-car to celebrate 75 years of Jaguar. In 2011 a handpicked team of engineers was assigned the task to develop a supercar with the speed of  a Veyron, range of a Volt,
and carbon emissions of a Prius.The car was developed in collaboration with the F1 team Williams F1.

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The C-X75 had a combined power output of 850hp and 1000Nm of torque, produced from 1.6 litre
dual boosted(supercharged and turbocharged) 4 cylinder engine which was capable of generating 502bhp at 10,000 rpm. Up to 5,500 rpm it is supercharged, after that turbo handles the sorcery, which keeps it going to a limit of 10,200 rpm. There are 2 electric motors one at the rear and one at the front each making 200hp and 300lb ft of torque.It came with a 7 speed automated manual transmission allowing gearshifts in under 200 milliseconds.Its very first prototype exceeded 200mph with ease during testing and had a theoretical maximum velocity of 220mph.


Jaguar's motive to develop this car was to "produce real-world technologies" that would take automotive technology to new heights and the technologies that were being developed for this car had the potential to be used in future products of the Jaguar Land Rover brand. For instance:
  • This car had a micro- gas turbine (only the concept)! from the company Bladon Jets to generate enough electricity to extend its range, while running solely on battery power the C-X75 has a range of 110kms.
  • Jaguar also focused on the aerodynamics to improve performance, the rear carbon diffuser that guides airflow from under the car creating down-force, had an active aero foil that automatically lowers as the speed increases.
  • Even the electronics and cooling system was revolutionary, instead of using heat sinks into conventional water-based coolants, the coolant was non-conducting, so it could be passed directly through electronics to cool them without shorting them out!! (science allows you to do that ? I didn't even know .....)
  • The carbon-fibre structure of the Jaguar's C-X75 wasn't a single piece.They used a process called resin transfer because it was relatively cheap and could be made easily in high numbers.This compression molded technique from Williams allowed them to incorporate carbon fibre pieces into an aluminium body shell. 
                             
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All the above points will make you think "we have seen these things in the new hypercars", "active-aero foil ?...... check the Huracan Performante" .Yes, I know but these are the cars of 2017, while this Jag possessed such high end technology in 2013, the time of McLaren P1, Porsche 918 and the LaFerrari. Though it was supposed to be a competitor to these cars .

In May 2011, Jaguar announced plans to build it from 2013-2015, a limited number and a downsized boosted petrol engine instead of the micro gas turbine. Jaguar's C-X75 was to be priced between 1.15-1.43 million$. The production version was thought to have an electric range of 50kms.
But in December 2011, due to the great recession and ongoing global market crises the production was cancelled and the project was "indefinitely suspended".

Though it made a comeback in Spectre, the 2015 James Bond film.

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