Jag XK

[jcp123]

Is it just me, or does it have a lot of Aston's looks in it? Makes some sense, as both are Ford companies...is it sharing its chassis with the Aston?

[Rockefella]

Is it just me, or does it have a lot of Aston's looks in it? Makes some sense, as both are Ford companies...is it sharing its chassis with the Aston?

The designer at Jaguar was the head of design at Aston Martin for the past 5 or 6 years IIRC. Ian Callum might be his name if memory serves me right.

[Street_Dreamer]

ian callum is his name and there have been many magazines and car journalists saying that the two cars look very similar since the concept version of the XK.

[Dary]

i think his name is Fisker

[Rockefella]

i think his name is Fisker

He was one of the designers too.. I think. He's started his own company which makes Fister Latigo's and Fisker Tramonto's off of Bmw 6-series chassis.

[Dary]

He was one of the designers too.. I think. He's started his own company which makes Fister Latigo's and Fisker Tramonto's off of Bmw 6-series chassis.

and Mercedes-Benz SL chassis.

[LandQuail]

Callum told Evo magazine that the constraints on car designers leave little flexibility in the way cars are penned. Look at the proportions of the Jag and recent Astons compared to, say, the Maserati 3200 GT. These aren't only homage to classic sports coupe proportions, they're the most effective packaging, and that satisfies the deep thinkers who run Aston/Jag.

The hood (of Bonnet, if that's your thing) of the Jag is bulbous and over-inflated to protect pedestrians. (Something about hitting the unyielding intake systems, or similar rubbish.)
Then there are crumple zones, and an adequate rollover protection structure and ten thousand other hard points and soft points and things that i'm to ignorant to know about.
And then you've got to fit a gigantic fuel tank in there somewhere...

But the overall profiles are so similar in this case that it's hard not to imagine that overlord Ford had a hand in concocting some "design DNA" bullshit to muddle the waters betwixt the two marques.

Damn shame that Jags aren't svelte, slinky; well, catlike machines anymore though. Get used to it.
Squawk.

[Kooper]

The hood (of Bonnet, if that's your thing) of the Jag is bulbous and over-inflated to protect pedestrians. (Something about hitting the unyielding intake systems, or similar rubbish.)
Then there are crumple zones, and an adequate rollover protection structure and ten thousand other hard points and soft points and things that i'm to ignorant to know about.
And then you've got to fit a gigantic fuel tank in there somewhere...

I never could wrap my head around that one - pedestrian safety -. Want to make life safer for pedestrians? Keep them off the road! And I don't care how many crumple zones they fit to a car, you hit a ped at even just 35 mph, that ped's compost in most cases. OK, I admit that certain technologies make the possibility of death to a pedestrian less likely in the event of a collision, but why make the hood blob-like? I can't remember which manufacturer it is, but it employs a system that detects when an object resembling flesh is struck heads-on, and simply pops the hood up to cushion the hapless jay-walker. Isn't that enough?

Anyway, that's my quota of bitching for the day, I'm off to bed.

[jcp123]

Callum told Evo magazine that the constraints on car designers leave little flexibility in the way cars are penned. Look at the proportions of the Jag and recent Astons compared to, say, the Maserati 3200 GT. These aren't only homage to classic sports coupe proportions, they're the most effective packaging, and that satisfies the deep thinkers who run Aston/Jag.

The hood (of Bonnet, if that's your thing) of the Jag is bulbous and over-inflated to protect pedestrians. (Something about hitting the unyielding intake systems, or similar rubbish.)
Then there are crumple zones, and an adequate rollover protection structure and ten thousand other hard points and soft points and things that i'm to ignorant to know about.
And then you've got to fit a gigantic fuel tank in there somewhere...

But the overall profiles are so similar in this case that it's hard not to imagine that overlord Ford had a hand in concocting some "design DNA" bullshit to muddle the waters betwixt the two marques.

Damn shame that Jags aren't svelte, slinky; well, catlike machines anymore though. Get used to it.
Squawk.

Yeah, most sports cars look the same to me too. Just that certain things like the Jag's broad shouldered stance and the shape of the wheel wells really just dripped of Aston. I don't really care one way or the other if it looks like an Aston though, so I guess I did "get used to it"

[F1_Master]

Yep, same designer, or was.

News show Ford has now sold Jaguar (or will), so the connection between Jaguar and Aston will be interesting to see in about 5-6 years.

[henk4]

Yep, same designer, or was.

News show Ford has now sold Jaguar (or will), so the connection between Jaguar and Aston will be interesting to see in about 5-6 years.

you mean after Ford has sold Jaguar to Renault?

[F1_Master]

Well, I didn't know Renault bought them. I've only read that Ford sold them.

[Gtek-i]

really? Is that good :cough no cough:

[henk4]

Well, I didn't know Renault bought them. I've only read that Ford sold them.

Renault has approached Ford earlier, but was then told Jaguar was not for sale. Now that it is, chances are that Renault might be successful.

[cmcpokey]

that bodes well for the states.. get renault the foot in the door to the states with the established jag dealership system, and then we will hopefully start getting renaults and peugeuts.