[LeonOfTheDead]

Originally Posted by Ferrer

Gearbox too? I doubt Daimler has a manual that can cope with the immense torque of the V12.

Nope. It was due to the McLaren-Honda link in the F1 cars.

By the way I don't think turbos are a Honda speciality.

that's what they told us during the visit, and what I read on mags.

Originally Posted by Equinox

LeonOfTheDead, I'll try and find a source for that... It was a while ago now, so I'll have to do some archiving

But I can tell you that a lot of people were dissatisfied with the car (Jaguar XJ220) , which is why it took so long to sell all of the cars. When the car was first developed it was to have a V12, 530-bhp engine and was supposed to be four-wheel drive. But the V12 was dropped for design issues due to the size and it was difficult to for it to pass emissions laws at the time. Then they put a 3.5 L V6 with Garrett T3 turbochargers. It had around 540 something horsepower... 549 bhp if I am correct. Customers complained about the noise from the exhaust and the turbo lag. The all wheel drive was dropped as well for a rear-wheel drive set-up. By the time the car came out in 1992, their was a bad economic downturn. The car couldn't justify its asking price of $625,000 at the time. Not to mention all the changes Jaguar made were after a handful of customers already placed orders, and when Jaguar changed most of the cars design, those customers where not happy and threatened to sue. A lot of them cancelled their orders which is why it took so long to sell all the cars.

I'll still look for a source, but this is what I can tell you right now... Hope it helps some.

Yeah, I knew the history behind the XJ220 and its floors, but didn't know it took so long to sell all of the cars

Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen

The Zonda uses a Cima gearbox IIRC, same as the Koenigseggs.

the Cima will be used on the next Cinque version, don't know about the R version.

Pagani don't produce the gearbox, that I can assure you, the factory consists of three rooms, and I visited all of them. nor I ever hear that they bought it from a different source.
I know about the weird MB manual gearboxes, maybe they (AMG) are able to meet decent stadards since the car is produced in so low figures and the costs of the part itself isn't really an issue considering the car starts at 600.000 €