land speed record

The Jaguar F-TYPE R Coupé is now officially the fastest production vehicle in South Africa. On 28 February 2015, at the Upington Airport, in the Northern Cape, a small group of Jaguar employees gathered to watch the 405kW supercharged V8 coupé being driven into the record books. The event was the culmination of just over six weeks of planning, and saw Jaguar tapping into its heritage; recalling the 40s and 50s, when it famously set numerous European land speed records with the XK120. "Not … [Read more...] about 13-year-old production vehicle land speed record broken