Jaguar XJ220
One mistake that manufacturers sometimes make is to take deposits from customers for a new model based on the concept version. This is what happened to Jaguar after it started showing off the XJ220 concept at car shows in 1988. They took literally hundreds of orders with cash deposits for the V12 four-wheel drive supercar, only to discover that they couldn't actually make a street-legal version with all of those features intact. By the time they finally delivered the first customer car, the big V-12 had shrunk to a 3.5L V-6, and the four-wheel drive was gone. Customers were pissed, and some demanded their money back. Ironically, the production version's performance was actually very similar to the prototype, which was capable of 0 to 60 mph on 3.5 seconds and over 200 mph.
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