The Jaguar team, including Mark Stanton, Director of JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations (SVO), and Dan Connell, Head of Global PR & Communications for SVO will be visiting our Los Angeles office to show off the new Jaguar XE SV Project 8 and answer any questions the community has.

We will be doing a live video on Facebook during the afternoon (PT) on August 8th. We will post the video here in the thread or you can follow the page to get notified when we are live:
https://www.facebook.com/JaguarForums/

I know @zach05855 has one on order and may want footage or answers regarding specific details? Who else may have questions about this stunning vehicle?

 

Nice!

I'd love to get some more detail on the technical side.

I've read the intercoolers and the intake manifold are different in the P8 compared to the normal 5.0SC engine. It'd be great to hear what specific changes the team had to make to those parts and why. Hoping for more technical details than just the generic "we needed cooler air and more of it"

Also curious how the suspension differs from the XE S, aside from being stiffer and lower and having the modified adaptive dynamics settings. Is it connected to the chassis differently in any way? Is the chassis itself stiffer due to modifications? Is the overall geometry the same as on the XE?

Lastly what is the timeline for an SVR or R and what aspects of the project 8 should we expect to carry over?

 

Great job going to forum community for qna. Im sure austin7 will want to know if he can use the tune in his ftype...

 

Looking forward to it.

 

If I show up do I get to drive it :-)

 

Thanks for the comments and questions!

Unfortunately, I don't think any of us will get to drive it :-(

The car Jaguar is bringing for us to see isn't certified to drive on US roads but they will start it up and give us a detailed tour of the car.

-Nolan

 

Im interested in what's different with the engine such that they get the supercharger whine out of it when the rest of the jags are pretty quiet in that regard

 

My first Question, Weight balance front to rear. With the V8 up front and the AWD what will the weight distribution be?

 

Good one. He'll sue them if he can't.

 

+1

The air intakes and/or intake manifold are different from the normal V8. As to what's different about them, I'd like to know as well.

 

Thanks for the comments! The Project 8 will be visiting tomorrow and we will be live with the Jaguar folks around 2:45PM PT.

Also, we learned that the model we will see is this blue color:

 

Is the car more or less track focused than the Project 7

 

We were just live with the Project 8!

 

We got some additional information off camera that we will write up for the homepage and share within the next 24 hours.

The Project 8 seems to be, at the very least, as track focused as the Project7.

Only the front doors and the roof of the standard XE remain and everything else has been re-engineered specifically for handling dynamics, airflow, and weight balance.

 

Full coverage of our time talking Project 8 with the team at Jaguar: https://www.jaguarforums.com/article...interview-svo/

A few pics from the event

 

It is a beautiful motorcar !
Love the blue colour and big cat graphics on the bodywork.There is a time for being reserved and a time not to be. I can't wait to see and hear it out on the Warwickshire roads.

 

Thanks for covering my questions! That was awesome. Cheers guys.