Otherwise there's no way this Mercedes-Benz SL600 V12 would ever make it under the hood of this Datsun 280Z. You read that right, a huge V12 in a teeny Z car. “Imagine a poor man’s Jaguar E ...

Originally good for 301 horsepower and 336 LB-FT of torque, the 6.0 V12 was Jaguar’s last great engine before the brand wandered off into Ford-powered ambiguity. It made its name with a quiet ...

That car did indeed come with a V12, and it was based directly on Jaguar's Le Mans racers. That was the XJR-15. The XJR-15 ended up being one of the most manic cars of the modern era and never ...

Under all that glitz and glimmer is a 5.6-liter supercharged V12 engine that was developed in-house by the TWR engineers, which produces around 650 horsepower and 538.4 lb-ft (730 Nm) of torque.

With further modifications, the V12 appeared in the Jaguar XJR-6 race car of 1985. It grew from 6.2 to 6.3 liters, before expanding again to 7.0 liters for the XJR-9, pictured above, which won six ...

They’re cheap—regularly under $10,000 in varying conditions, from what I’ve found—and are available with hulking V12 engines, so I always fantasize about their kickass project car potential.

The shell (heavily based on the Series I E-Type) was mated with a customized Series II frame, and a Jaguar V12 (borrowed from the Series III variant) was installed under the hood.

At its peak, that V12 made just over 300 horsepower, about 60 more than the inline-six. These days, neither is going to feel like a rocket ship. Per Hagerty, a 1996 inline-six convertible like you ...