The TWR Supercat is a supercharged V12 restomod

The Supercat is the result of a two-year process of design and engineering, based on the XJS platform. It’s certainly aggressive with the design being handled by Khyzyl Saleem and Singer’s Magnus Walker. Otherwise known as Kyza, Saleem is an astonishing design talent that made a name for himself with computer generated edits on Instagram. 

He’s known for seemingly imagining and creating the impossible, so it’s fitting that this started life as an XJS and now looks like a lithe, athletic race car for the road. 

Happily, the vibe is more than skin-deep, with TWR Performance endowing the Supercat with a V12 engine (of undisclosed capacity) with a supercharger, good for over 600PS, which delivers its power to the rear wheels via a six-speed manual transmission.

No word on exact performance numbers just yet but given the power, we hope the design saw a wind tunnel on its way from Kyza’s mad mind to the autoclave. We say autoclave because of course, the bodywork of the Supercat is all carbon fibre. It looks like it might have as the details are delicious, from those air-channeling buttresses, to the turbine wheels, to the massive diffuser and indeed, the monster splitter to meet it.

“After more than two years of extensive design, engineering and development work, we are proud to unveil the design of TWR’s debut product,” said Fergus Walkinshaw, TWR director and Founder.

"The outcome is a true drivers’ Super-GT built from the foundations of the iconic Jaguar XJS and appropriately named the Supercat. This bold expression of the breed fulfils our mission to build cars worthy of TWR’s winning legacy, starting with this remarkable car as it enters its 50th year.”

Just 88 of these mad machines will be built, to commemorate the TWR Jaguar XJR-9’s 1988 Le Mans win. The pricing is no joke, though, with a £10,000 deposit required to secure a car that will set you back at least £225,000. Struth. Order books are open now and the car will be fully revealed in the summer.