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Originally Posted by :Exige:

It ended up a rebodied Metro 6R4 .......... not a sexy V6 Metro and real world acceleration results that you would compare to a family saloon, not a supercar...

That's a disappointing lot of half truth you have there. Just because it used a development of the V64V engine it doesn't make it a 'rebodied' 6R4, does it? I don't think they made them 4WD....? Or am I mistaken?

And as for 'sexy V6 Metro'...er, the 6R4 could hardly be described as a Metro for these purposes could it??

As for 'real world acceleration figures'...well surely we tend to compare 0-60s don't we? Under 4 seconds? That's a hell of a family saloon.

No, the XJ220 was not the car it could've been, there's no denying that, but that it wasn't is surely down to market forces. I believe the attempts to renage on contracts to buy quoting 'reduced specification' were just speculators realising the bottom had dropped out of that particular market.

The McLaren F1 was a whole new ball game, that's why everyone wanted to bail out!!