A pair of Callum-designed, British, aluminium cars

[Nigel_O]

Yes, yes, I know about the Fisker thing, but give me a bit of poetic licence....

Back in May, my youngest son spent three days with me sorting the paintwork on my V8 Vantage. This week, I returned the favour and spent a couple of days with him on his Jag XJ-L.

It has over 150,000 miles on it, so the front end has quite a bit of gravel-rash, but it polished up quite nicely....





Couldn't resist parking the Vantage alongside for a comparison of two of Callum's finest designs at opposite ends of the spectrum - quite a size difference...

[Sideways Tim]

Very shiny. Never realised how big the Jag is/small the Aston is

[samoht]

Very nice both of them, although the Aston is perhaps the more straightforwardly beautiful, definitely heading towards classic status.


I'm a big fan of Ian Callum's work, here (from the British Motor Museum) are another couple which never went into production, but should have!

[fatboy b]

The mk1 facelift XF and that era XJ are timeless designs imo. Audi seem to design cars that look old out the blocks. Aston I may try next.

[rodericb]

samoht said:

Very nice both of them, although the Aston is perhaps the more straightforwardly beautiful, definitely heading towards classic status.


I'm a big fan of Ian Callum's work, here (from the British Motor Museum) are another couple which never went into production, but should have!

I don't know the year exactly but there was a period where the premium Ford Group stuff had that very distinctive style. 1999? 2003?