Mr S1

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Just found this whilst having a nose about on the web. Supposedly it's genuine, and in Dubai....

Escow-Van

Wouldn't surprise me, at least it won't rust!

TIFF

Holy Shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know in Dubai there was a big thing where people would lose everything and have 24 hours to get out the country before they can never leave or something......

AJC

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There's a similar picture. Of an XJ220

Mk4 Lew

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yeah it is real such a shame aswell

TIFF

And an RS200 sat in a underground carpark

AJC

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Yep. Forgot about that one.

Mr S1

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Seen the RS200 one, there's something else parked next to it IIRC ?

Not an F40 though, however you look at it....!!!!

rog

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Iv'e seen this before on other forums, i'm 99.999% sure it's not in Dubai, there was a story to it but can't rememebr what it was, something to do with it being broken and left at a garage.
The RS200 is in an underground car park in Japan.
There are loads and loads of pics of supercars like that F40 that were left in Iraq and have been destroed since, sems like the middle east has lots of this type of thing, there's an abandoneed corvette stingray (hardtop) about 1/4 of a mile from where I am now in Oman.

focusv8

When you are a Son, Nephew or whatever to someone who has oil riches valued at a Gazillion dollars, abandoning a car / cars with a value of $100,000 means nothing.

Mr S1

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That's it, everything is disposable. If it packs up, needs work or runs out of fuel (?!) then you just buy another one.

TIFF

I remember years ago there was a story of a guy who owned a big business, cant think what it was, in the UK....He bought a Jag XJ220 when they came out and then the arse fell out the market....big ressesion....He bricked this 220 into a room, bricked it up so you couldnt get to it.......

Anyway, his business went under and when the place got sold someone took a wall down and found it behind the wall.......... Now THATS a find

Mr S1

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Ooooh, proper barn find !

TIFF

Taken from the Auto-Trader--

"Not all classic car investments work out as planned: in 1992, a Cardiff-based businessman bought a Jaguar XJ220 - which had a list price of Ł415,000 - and stored it away for safe-keeping. Ten years later, the liquidators of Marlborough Carpets found the car behind a bricked-up staircase at the company's warehouse; it has just 11 miles on the clock. However, given that a low-mileage example of this limited-edition supercar fetched just Ł85,000 at auction in Geneva recently, this ultra-low-mileage car has been valued at just Ł100,000, according to The Times.
The XJ220 was the fastest production vehicle of its time, until the launch of the McLaren F1. It boasted a top speed of 218 mph and a 0-60 mph acceleration time of 3.8 seconds, thanks to a 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 engine producing 542 bhp and 475 lb ft of torque.
It was intended to be Jaguar's answer to the all-dominant Italian supercars, but didn't really take off, and less than 280 were made. What a waste, however, to hide one in a carpet warehouse for ten years... and its owner didn't even get to drive it."

TIFF

Found this XJ220 abandonded in the Qatari desert......









Real shame as it should look like this....

rog

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Yeah I remember reading about that and seeing the pics!
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIA...220/28788.html

Here's another
http://www.teamspeed.com/forums/ferr...rrari-f40.html

Mr S1

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Now THAT is a crying shame....

PAUL S

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The f40 pic is a rep based on a Pontiac Fiero, and the XJ220 was in Qatar at a repair shop and not abandoned, just caught up in a sand storm at the time

Lambchop

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Mythbusters to the rescue

fezzajsy

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DanW@FastFord

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There's is no way that's a real F40. I'd put a lot of money on it being a replica, most likely Pontiac Fiero based. There's lots wrong with it, notably the fact that it looks too short, the swage line is much too angular, the there are no 'quarterlights' on the front windows.

gjh

Well thats those myths well and trully busted. But I do remember those stories about a lot of people loosing money in Dubai and just fleeing out of the country and leaving everything like a ghost town.

RSNUT!

that is a good website

have you seen these?? very similar...

http://www.luxury4play.com/

http://luxhomes.com/

Lee1

Lol @ some of the comments on that f40 thread.

"Breaks my heart"

"I think I want to cry"

They need to get a grip. saying that though I think I've seen the same sort of comments
on the abandoned ford thread on here

RS 5tu

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Looks abit short to be real and the wheel fit is poor too, ide say it was a rep

Jimbo.

It's pretty obvious just by the side skirt alone, but as said it's way too short, front wheel looks to be wrong offset and the windows different.

s2turbsZVH

[QUOTE=TIFF;5524395]Found this XJ220 abandonded in the Qatari desert......






If this is abandoned why are the windows all squeaky clean and the tyres fully inflated ????

Clearly it had been driven there and was just very dusty.

S2=RSTmatt

Yeah , the thing next to the rs200 is an old bmw m5 or 5 series apparantly

rog

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http://speedhunters.com/archive/2010...ord-rs200.aspx

gjh

Is that really a real RS200^? A great shame if it is, seen a couple for sale asking around the Ł100k mark.

rog

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Yes it is.

Porkie

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Mr S1!!!! thought you knew your supercars!!

shocked dude...

and that XJ220 is now way abdandoned!! its just bit dirty in very dusty country!

7sean7m7

My uncles mother in law now lives in Dubai and apparantly alot of buisnesses have gone under and they just flee the country. She said she has found numourous supercars just left on the side of the road full of sand with the keys left in. Vipers, ferrari's anything..

Porkie

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Rubbish.

Mr S1

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I know mate, that's why I said 'if this is real' as the site I got it from said it was - but I wasn't convinced....but saying that the Arab guys do abandon some cars they really shouldn't so it wpuldn't have surprised me !

Glenn_

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That f40 looks like a rep to me too. Wasnt there 2 different types of xj220 some of them had the door closer to the front wheels. I the front wings are different.

7sean7m7

And why is that?

Lambchop

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You're saying that some random has found NUMEROUS abandoned supercars and you wonder why people don't believe you? AFPMSL

rog

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I'm there on tuesday, let me know where they are and I'll take them for a drive!
Chop, I'll park it at the airport so you don't have to get a rental car.

Cragrat

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I bet he's found some of that too...