JD Classics have built a nut and bolt replica using one of the only original Jaguar V12 prototype racing engines from the era. Their recreation is called the 'True Spirit of XJ13'. Then stumbled across this video again of the original. Spectacular! Rest in peace Alain de Cadenet.

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Amen 🙏🏼

What a beautiful machine

Hello. does it have 2 camshafts per bank or not???Why not say those things?

Psalms nine one

My god that's a glorious sound I wish I could hear that jag go around a race track 😊

Too bad the XJ220 never had a V12.

this is beautiful but the original design from before the accident is nicer still

Spectacular!

Who was driving the chase car and what kind of car was it?

one of my fondest memories is watching this with my father as a child I had woke up and couldn't sleep he let me stay up and watch it with him on Xmas eve eating his favourite biscuits. every Xmas eve now since he passed o stay up on Xmas eve with a tin of his favourite biscuits and watch this movie and for that time it feels like I'm 8 again rest easy dad❤

You can clearly see where the E Type and XJ220 got their gorgeous looks from. In my opinion, the XJ13 is the second most beautiful car in the world, behind the Series 1 E Type Jaguar.

A Cinema classic! Thanks Bill!

They should make this car now. Classic design never dies yet sadly this car never even lived. Maybe it’s time to change all that.

No color can match British Racing Green. TITTZ!!!

Very nice 😊

Quel design magnifique. Et pas besoin de chauffage en hiver

Jaguar has always been very generous in showing and demonstrating the XJ13 all over the World. They even let me sit in it when it was at the Browns Lane Museum about 25 years ago. Even more incredibly, it used to be available for hire (as part of Jaguar's classic fleet) - but sadly you could only have it as a static display (with accompanying Jag employee to supervise), not actually drive it. Jaguar was generous - but not THAT generous 😀

now that is a race car. take that EVs. I have zero desire for a EV sport car, cause it is quiet and disconnected like playing playstation.

Quite sometime ago I met Mr. De Cadenet at the Monterey Historic’s. I am aware of Alain’s racing pedigree but one has to wonder when he takes one of these irreplaceable museum pieces out on a somewhat spirited drive are the owners biting their nails down to the nubs? Lovely man, lovely car. Miss you Alain and your wonderful series.

Beautiful.

When I sent my comment earlier I forgot to mention that I owned for 3 years a beautiful Mazda R X 8......4 door sports- car .... and the color was Cosmopolitan GREY...... and the seats were COSMO RED.....But the Wenkel engine... German was made by the name of the inventor......was very fragile and took a lot of Oil for this engine to run ..... but I enjoyed it so much when I owned her.....!!!! It sure had a lot of pep with 6 standard transmissions.....!!!!

I adore Ferrari Cars.... but this is the MOST OUTSTANDING AUTOMOBILE I HAVE EVER SEEN.... I owned a Triumph TR 7.....1977... and I have owned a Mazda Miata 2002 for the last 11 years... MY LITTLE BABY.....my pride and joy.....!!!! BRAVO to all these wonderful automobiles ON PLANET EARTH.....!!!!

i honestly dont get it. people tear up over this?

I find it wild that some people find this speech cringy. If anything, it's the most real reaction to having been through what just happened. Dude is hysterical from seeing his life flash before him. Murray sells it too.

Lol😂

I watch this movie every Christmas. My favorite scene is when he speaks to his brother through the TV and gives him that answer, to me that was magical.

Happy Xmas boys

Wow she sounds angry, and looks absolutely stunning! Ironic really, my two favourite cars, this and the 288 GTO, both built to race, but neither got the chance!

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

its such a comfort to see buddy hacket again.

what's amazing is that the entire thing was ad libbed. done completely on the fly. he really pissed off Richard Donner, who thought he was having a legit mental breakdown. it actually led to a near fistfight with a producer and Murray. but I'm glad they kept it. that speech was intense.

Here De Cadenet slipped on a fundamental fact. It was 1968 when FIA demanded that the Sportcars (up to 5 liters) would have been divided by the Prototypes (3 liters maximum) by at least 25 examples to be homologated (see the famous 917 1969 line-up picture) and Jag was not ready to prepare such a number of these wonders. It was designed specifically for that power, so it could not be detuned at 3L neather. And the rule stated that they had to be with a closed cockpit as a 3L+ Sportcar. That was the same reason why Ferrari made his "forfait" year in spite of a rule he judged absourd, since he could not run his 4,5L P4 and it's supposed successor (even if there was no design at the time for a P5 at all) - and he had to wait '69 to be ready with the absourdly gorgeous 3-liters 312P. For the sake of information, without Jag nor Ferrari, the 1968 LM was leaded by 3 of the new mighty 908s LH, supported by an updated boxer-8 907s ran by Scuderia Tartaruga, which clashed with another trio of GT40s Mk.I modified by none other but John Wyer's Team Gulf-Ford. And in that wet Le Mans held in September for the protests in France, the legend of the two-times winning GT40 chassis began with Lucien Bianchi and Pedro Rodriguez... and so, the infamous Ford Vs. Porsche duel began, with the 908 LH to be the first Porsche to win Le Mans and to be beaten by the same car, in absourd ways both times for it's two years of official Works Porsche career... quite redeemed in 1972 finishing 2nd overall behind the Matra MS670 Court of Pescarolo and Graham Hill, proving how great it really was. Unlucky but in the end, legendary. Sorry for the Off Topic but as a Le Mans historian and Porsche long-term fan I cannot help myself but start and keep writing about these magic stories of the Greatest Race in the World! 😅❤

00:30 I just noticed my guy here just straight up grabbed her tits. Not even like an accident either. He was thinking "Well, I'm about to die so....."

Jesus Christ, that snarl when it cranks!!! 😍

Sexy beast.

Only Tim Heidecker can compete with Bill Murray.

I never fancied an E type, but this looks stunning and sounds so good I don't have words.I wouldt trust it much over 150 as some of the cars from that era generated lift.

Wow!

Ah. The man Clarkson wishes he was.

When he started it my jaw dropped

This. I’d take this over any modern day hyper car. Too bad it never made it into a racing series, or better yet, production.

The best music video I've watched in ages!👍👍👍👍

… my god, what a beast. RIP AdC, you are a legend.

Wow, it would be a dream to sit inside and drive the car now, that sound is just so beautiful

Most beautiful Jaguar ever made. Seems to go round corners exceptionally well. What a machine!

Fantastic Jaguar. Thanks for uploading. One of the best things about Victory by Design is that Alain De Cadenet had a heavy right foot regardless of what he was driving, and how rare or valuable it was.

Wow

Beautiful