C-X75 stunt car hits the road

The latter were produced by Williams Advanced Engineering using a rock-solid spaceframe chassis with Jaguar’s venerable supercharged V8 powering the rear wheels. These were the cars that performed the Vatican City jumps, drifts and handbrake turns that we saw on screen. I adore movie stunt cars because they’re so great to drive. I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon in one of the Spectre C-X75s several years ago and it was a blast.

Like competition cars, stunt cars are built for a single purpose, meaning they’re light, simple and tough as old boots. But unlike a racing car, stunt cars need to be easy to fling about the place, so they’re set up to be benign and progressive at the limit, with not too much grip, plenty of steering lock and lots of wheel travel.

They are, essentially, designed and built to be fun to drive. The BMW E46 M3-powered Aston Martin DB5 replicas built for another Bond film, No Time to Die, were just the same. How wonderful, then, that one of those C-X75s might actually be used now that it can be driven on the road. There are plenty of other supercars and hypercars with more power and way more sophisticated electronics and so on, but I would venture that few will be more enjoyable to drive.

CALLUM has added catalytic converters, fitted indicators and changed the glass to meet type approval standards. The Intercooler will be at the Sunday Scramble in April with our own breathtaking display (more on that soon), hoping for a glimpse of a Jaguar C-X75 on the public road.

Ian Callum tells the tale of the Jaguar C-X75 in this two-part article for The Intercooler