Het lijkt wel of de bronnen elkaar tegen spreken...
"Built as a potential Le Mans contender, it never competed in any race. Its development inevitably had to take second place to that of the much more important new saloon car which became the XJ6, launched in 1968. By the time XJ13 was completed, its design had become obsolete against new cars from Ferrari and Ford, never mind the Porsche 917. Anyway,
the Le Mans regulations were changing, and prototype cars were limited to engines of 3 litres. To run cars with larger engines, manufacturers had to build fifty examples as production cars (later reduced to twenty-five). "
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Mijn verhaaltje heb ik geschreven op basis van een artikel uit de Octane, wat overeenkomt met bovenstaande bron. Bovenstaande bron is overigens de eigenaar (organisatie) van de XJ13.
Wikipedia verteld wat jij ook beweert:
"The development of the XJ13, although treated seriously by the designers, was
never a priority for company management, and became less so following the 1966 merger with BMC. By that time Ford had developed the 7.0 litre GT40, and so the XJ13 was considered obsolete by the time the prototype was complete. The prototype was tested at MIRA and at Silverstone, which confirmed that it would have required considerable development to make it competitive. The prototype was put into storage and no further examples were made."