Car and Driver 10Best tested: Ferrari Testarossa, 173 mph Top-selling cars: Imports and domestics chosen by marque, not by place of manufacture. Price cap: $35,000 Fastest car tested: 750iL "V12", 158 mph Top-selling cars: Eliminated half domestic/half import rule as impractical. Price cap: $35,000 Fastest car tested: Chevrolet Corvette "ZR-1", 175 mph Top-selling cars: New rule: No more than two places per marque. Price cap: $35,000 Fastest car tested: Chevrolet Corvette "ZR-1", 176 mph Top-selling cars: Price cap: $40,000 Fastest car tested: Ferrari F40, 197 mph Top-selling cars: Price cap: $40,000 Fastest car tested: Lamborghini Diablo, 204 mph Top-selling cars: Institution of the 2.5x
Jaguar V12 engine championships for the following decade. Jaguar V12 engine The Jaguar V12 engine was a V12 automobile engine produced by Jaguar Cars. Based loosely on an earlier design for an intended Le Mans car, the Jaguar XJ13, it was first seen in the Series 3 Jaguar E-type of 1971. The V12 was only Jaguar's second engine design to go into production in the history of the company. The all-alloy block was fitted with removable wet liners and had a SOHC two-valve alloy head with flat block mating surface, and the combustion chamber in the piston crown carved in a shallow cup