This is a 1,900PS electric Jaguar | FOS Future Lab

The interesting thing about this latest Vision GT project, is that it’s a ‘track-only’ derivative of an existing vehicle, modified for motorsport. The original Vision GT, unveiled in October 2019, has been completely re-evaluated for the transformation into an endurance racing car. “We were given one objective: take everything that makes the Jaguar Vision GT Coupe so special – the performance, the handling and the soundtrack – and take it to another level,“ said Jamal Hameedi, Engineering Director, Jaguar SV.

In part, the extensive modifications to the car have been based on feedback from gamers on how the original performed. So, how do you make the most extreme virtual Jaguar into the most extreme virtual racing Jaguar? More power and more aero are good places to start.

The original’s three-motor powertrain has been beefed up, with an extra motor thrown in for good measure. The combined output is 1,903PS (1,400kW) and a scarcely-believable 3,360nm (2,478lb ft) of torque, available at the twitch of your right foot… or right hand. The claimed performance numbers are staggering: 0-62mph in under two seconds and a top speed of 255mph (410km/h). Power is nothing without control, so the now de rigueur claims of highly sophisticated all-wheel torque vectoring are present and correct. 

That top speed is achieved by balancing downforce with drag, with the style and aero treatment taking inspiration from Mulsanne-conquering Jaguars of old. While the wheelbase is shared with the Vision GT, end to end, the SV is a massive 861mm longer, helping keep the drag coefficient at an impressively low Cd 0.398. Considering the enormous XJR-14-inspired rear wing, giant splitter and other aero addenda, louvres and apertures, that’s mighty impressive. The big Jag is also good for 483kg of downforce at 200mph.

The driving experience from the inside has been enhanced, too. New ‘Typefibre’ fabrics cover the racing seats, as used in Jaguar’s Formula E car and there’s a new soundtrack, too. Yes, a new soundtrack in this EV racing car. The existing sound has been ‘further enhanced’ for the GT SV, generating “a sound that is even more purposeful and distinctive, and is authentically yet futuristically Jaguar’. It is said to build ‘to a crescendo at the 40,000rpm redline” – colour us curious.

Perhaps one of the most interesting tidbits about this project is that, for something that will only ever run in the virtual world, Jaguar actually made one. Yes, a physical model of this quite literally other-worldly racing car. The vast majority of us won’t get up close and personal with the Vision GT SV until 2021, when the car releases on the game. Whether that will be on GT Sport, or the upcoming Gran Turismo 7 title, remains to be seen. We suspect the latter.