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Driven: the world's fastest front-wheel-drive car - and it's a Golf. You donât really hear of Q-cars any more. Thirty years ago the phrase was commonplace, but has fallen into effective disuse today. A Q-car was a high performance machine designed to look like it couldnât pull the skin off a cup of cold cocoa.
The XJ220 lost six cylinders and two driven wheels on the way to production, but it still managed to claim the title of fastest production car in 1992. The original concept version featured a V12 engine and all-wheel drive, but the production model had to make due with a twin-turbocharged V6, and rear-wheel drive.