Jaguar XE SV Project 8 Sets Dubai Autodrome Lap Record

Jaguar XE SV Project 8 added a new lap record in Dubai to its growing list of global achievements, confirming its place as the world’s fastest production, four-door saloon car. The stock, standard four-seater configuration, Jaguar XE SV Project 8 lapped the 5.39 km Dubai Autodrome GP circuit in 2 m 18.81 s , making it the fastest four-seater, four-door saloon car around the circuit. 

The Jaguar XE SV Project 8 is the most extreme Jaguar saloon ever produced. Based on the award-winning Jaguar XE, the SV Project 8 is the most track-ready version designed, engineered and hand-assembled by Jaguar’s Special Vehicle Operations. To preserve the exclusivity and collectability of the most powerful and agile Jaguar road car ever, the brand will build and sale no more than 300 examples worldwide. 

Salman Sultan, Regional Public Relations and Social Media Manager said: “The Nürburgring is a well-worn test bed for manufacturers to challenge themselves against the competition but that is only one track. With the Jaguar XE SV Project 8, our aim is to definitively prove that it is the fastest four-door saloon in the world by setting records at several tracks around the globe under different climatic conditions and surfaces.”

It is a four-door sedan with genuine supercar performance having already broken two previous speed records, the challenging 20.8 km Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany in November 2017, followed by California’s Laguna Seca Raceway in September last year.

The new lap record was accomplished by Jaguar Land Rover Test Driver & Engineering support, Xavi Barrio Duato. Xavi brings with him a wealth of driving experience gathered in Spain and China over decades.