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(from Bertone Press
Release) Jaguar B99 GT: Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson’s
“Dr Jeckyll and My Hyde” novel helps us all understand how great
paradoxes can coexist inside the human soul. Jaguar has thrived on
such a powerful duality for decades, combining the subtleties of
exclusive luxury cars perfectly suited to red carpet evenings and
the predator-like brute force of the full race cars perfectly suited
to 24 hour race track punishment. For this reason Bertone has
decided to transform the elegant B99 luxury sedan into a GT race
track monster.
The carryover components
of the original sedan (front doors, greenhouse, hood and trunk) are
very obvious but the 2.5 meter wide body leaves no doubt, the race
version is just as wild as every Jaguar in the jungle, ready to eat
the competition alive. The overall height car has been lowered 100mm
compared to the street version, and has been given a mere 50mm
ground clearance along with a perfectly flat belly for aerodynamic
efficiency. The Pirelli PZero race tires are 325/30/19. The giant
front spoiler pulls in the cooling air while the giant rear
extractor returns it. The side spoilers are filled with giant
exhaust side pipes. The rear spoiler is a traditional bi-level race
spoiler. The interior has been completely emptied and filled with a
safety roll cage, a full race drivers seat and a few minimalist
instruments. The graphics are in bright fluorescent green in
contrast with the silver body and the carbon fiber aerodynamics
components.
In order to meet the
demanding performance requirements on the track, the modular “pure”
hybrid system in the B9 has been modified to include two additional
Lucchi electric engines for a four-wheel drive layout producing the
equivalent of 725 kW, around 980Cv. Now the Jaguar racing dynasty
has a new member, the B 99 GT.
