RE: Showpiece of the Week: Spectre Jaguar C-X75

[Sine Metu]

A really beautiful car but never a fully developed car. Although I hate the scourge of corporate grills attempting to link a car like this somehow to a basic three box saloon. In any case, Jaguar are in real financial difficulty. They're meant to be making great stylish characterful pacy saloons/SUV's to earn the bread and butter and so far it hasn't happened in decades. Halo cars don't shift mainstream boxes which have to sell of their own accord when it comes to handing over the cash. And by the hundreds of thousands. They should have sold the design rights to McLaren.

[anonymous-user]

Sad that the same team that designed that stunner turn out derivative and boring stuff like the current XE and XF :-(

[Jellinek]

roland82 said:

The proposed gas turbines were the first thing I thought of too.

Lazadude said:

Wasn't the CX75 originally designed for and powered by Gas Turbines?

Fully electric (Motor at each wheel), making 700+ bhp with a range of 600 miles?

Why isnt that mentioned, its why its a much more interesting car design than just a charged 4 pot.

Edited by Lazadude on Monday 5th November 08:01

An interesting point is that the turbine electric hybrid concept was conceived at Jaguar in the 1980’s under John Egan’s tenure. Seems incredible that there was that much foresight then, but then again, 80’s was a very special decade for the company.

[Shakermaker]

roland82 said:

The proposed gas turbines were the first thing I thought of too.

Lazadude said:

Wasn't the CX75 originally designed for and powered by Gas Turbines?

Fully electric (Motor at each wheel), making 700+ bhp with a range of 600 miles?

Why isnt that mentioned, its why its a much more interesting car design than just a charged 4 pot.

Edited by Lazadude on Monday 5th November 08:01

OK I am glad I'm not the only one who thought of these

[HRCM]

Jellinek said:

An interesting point is that the turbine electric hybrid concept was conceived at Jaguar in the 1980’s under John Egan’s tenure. Seems incredible that there was that much foresight then, but then again, 80’s was a very special decade for the company.

MMmm - that's interesting.

The original C-X75 prototype's micro turbines were designed by Bladon Jets. Their website doesn't appear to mention the project now - boo!

[Rich_W]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

anniesdad said:

Gorgeous. Anybody else thinking this is kinda what the Speedtail should have looked like?

Exactly what I was going to post....

Me three!

McLaren need to hire that stylist!


I think people forget that Jag was burnt by the timing of XJ220. And does currently have a bit of a cash flow issue, which limits development a bit.


I agree that this with the V8SC in would sell very well. They could even mimic the XJ220 interior a bit rather than this prototype one.



Maybe get current Ford Focus air vents though, not the Mk4 Escort ones they went with back then!

[DomRoePhotography]

Utterly gorgeous! A crying shame that this never made full production, as it's one of only a few of the modern supercars that I genuinely find beautiful.

If I had the money...

[450Nick]

thegreenhell said:

I wish they'd put it into production just so we wouldn't have that awful 'holy trinity' phrase. What would you call them if there were four vehicles in that class?

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