With an estimate over $3 million, this 1988 XJR-9 (with XJR-12 specification!) will be among 80 cars for sale. Some of the other cars may have fender skirts, but none will have won Daytona.

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The XJR-9 didn't just serve as an inspiration – Jaguar set out to create a literal "race car for the road," with the XJR-15 using the same design philosophy and the same technology as its parent.

In 1988, race car driver Andy Wallace took the top spot at Le Mans. He did so in the Silkcut-liveried Jaguar XJR-9 LM. Since then, that car has become an iconic machine and is instantly ...

This unique Jaguar XJR-15 will go under the hammer with less than 1,000 miles (1600 km) on the clock via RM Sotheby’s at their Monterey Auction, set to take place between August 18-20.

The XJR-15 set for auction, chassis 043, is one of 53 built by JaguarSport—a joint venture by Jaguar and Tom Walkinshaw Racing—between 1990 and 1992. Of those, just 27 were street-legal.

Based on the Jaguar XJR-9 race car that won Le Mans in 1988, and intended as a celebration of that car, the supercar was actually designed by Jaguar Sport, a subsidiary of Tom Walkinshaw Racing ...

The 1988 win also featured one of the coolest sports prototypes of all time, the mighty XJR-9. A car so mighty, huge gearbox trouble in the last half-hour of the race couldn't phase it.

That's probably because the XJR-15 was a joint effort between Jaguar and Tom Walkinshaw Racing to use the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning Jaguar XJR-9 race car's underpinnings in something ...

With the XJR-15 tipping the scales at 1,050kg (2,315lbs), 0-60mph came in 3.9 seconds while top speed was limited due to gearing to 191mph (307km/h).

The XJR-15 was conceived by Tom Walkinshaw as a way to bring the idea of the Le Man winning Jaguar XJR-9 to the road. The XJR-15 was created under the Jaguar Sport brand.

When new, the XJR-15 carried a monumental $960,000 price tag, around $100,000 more than the later McLaren F1 and equivalent to roughly $1.7 million when adjusted for 25 years of inflation.