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More than 25 months of testing across the world"s harshest environments, and it ends with a leap of faith through the air. Ladies and gentlemen, the new, not-electric baby Jaguar SUV has just set a Guinness World Record for the furthest barrel roll in a production vehicle.That"s right, all those words happened. SUV. BARREL ROLL. World record. At London"s ExCel centre, stunt driver Terry Grant swallowed as many brave pills as humanly possible, gunned the throttle on Jaguar"s shiny new E-Pace baby SUV, and took a 160-metre run up to the hit the air at speed.The result? He managed a bona fide 270-degree barrel roll 15.3 metres through the air, landing cleanly on all four wheels, no doubt breathing a huge, huge sigh of relief immediately after. Props to anyone who read that sentence while humming a slide whistle" la The Man with the Golden Gun."As far as I am aware, no production car has ever cleanly completed a bona-fide barrel roll, and therefore it has always been an ambition of mine to perform one ever since I was a boy," Grant explained after the jump. Honestly, the man"s got 21 Guinness World Records to his name.
Date written: 13 Jul 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8492
More than 25 months of testing across the world"s harshest environments, and it ends with a leap of faith through the air. Ladies and gentlemen, the new, not-electric baby Jaguar SUV has just set a Guinness World Record for the furthest barrel roll in a production vehicle.That"s right, all those words happened. SUV. BARREL ROLL. World record. At London"s ExCel centre, stunt driver Terry Grant swallowed as many brave pills as humanly possible, gunned the throttle on Jaguar"s shiny new E-Pace baby SUV, and took a 160-metre run up to the hit the air at speed.The result? He managed a bona fide 270-degree barrel roll 15.3 metres through the air, landing cleanly on all four wheels, no doubt breathing a huge, huge sigh of relief immediately after. Props to anyone who read that sentence while humming a slide whistle" la The Man with the Golden Gun."As far as I am aware, no production car has ever cleanly completed a bona-fide barrel roll, and therefore it has always been an ambition of mine to perform one ever since I was a boy," Grant explained after the jump. Honestly, the man"s got 21 Guinness World Records to his name.
Date written: 13 Jul 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8492
