If you’re a fan of Jaguar, you’ll be very interested to see what Ian Callum has to say regarding the new design. There’s a series of videos you can check out over all the official Jaguar site for the new XJ. Here’s the transcript from the third film:
“The car is very modern, and it certainly meets up the expectations of people who understand design with a capital D, I have no doubt about that whatsoever.
It’s a very well crafted car. It’s also a very designer led car so that combination, I think, is quite unique. The lines are beautiful, but we reinterpreted them in quite a different way that actually is right and correct for the twenty-first century – and that is what’s important. A Jaguar should be very beautiful, very clear in its intent, but relevant for its time.
With this car I really do feel that I’ve taken almost thirty years of learning and put it into something that is very complete for me; and that’s taken a lot of discipline, a lot of pushing; on my part, on my design teams part, and the engineers. But I think we’ve achieved something very special indeed.”
What do I think about the Jaguar XJ? Well, it’s more than fair to say that Jaguar has been on a bit of a roll recently, producing some fantastically good looking (and wonderfully driveable) cars. With that in mind, I’m excited to see the rest of the videos in the series and in particular to see what the car looks like in the metal on 09/07/09.
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