RE: Jaguar R-D6
Wednesday 10th September 2003
Jaguar R-D6
Coupe look for new saloon concept from Jaguar
Discussion
It is a shame they have let the quiet elegance of the r-coupe go in favour of this. I rather think that the design types have popped out for a copy of Wallpaper* and some prada shoes and then nipped into the office to throw this derivative dogs breakfast of cool cues together, there is everything; alloy nonsense, wood pannelling, red led lighting, silly seats, exhausts designed to make the KA convertible thingy look a bit good, proabaly even a barman robot to be rude to you and charge you 20 quid for a Mojito.
There is an elegant car under all that twaddle, the back is wrong and the grille and silly doors are out of place and unnecessarily costly on a 'cheap' Jag so the bean counters should get them. I hope if they productionise it (fat chance I know) that the fripperies get removed and make way for an elegant coupe. At least they are trying.
There is an elegant car under all that twaddle, the back is wrong and the grille and silly doors are out of place and unnecessarily costly on a 'cheap' Jag so the bean counters should get them. I hope if they productionise it (fat chance I know) that the fripperies get removed and make way for an elegant coupe. At least they are trying.
I like it!
Thing to remember with Jaguar is that their core customers are slowly but surely releasing this mortal coil.
They need to create a new core market and their attempts to get a foot into any door should be applauded before they go the same way as so many other great marques...
Thing to remember with Jaguar is that their core customers are slowly but surely releasing this mortal coil.
They need to create a new core market and their attempts to get a foot into any door should be applauded before they go the same way as so many other great marques...
plotloss said:
I like it!
Thing to remember with Jaguar is that their core customers are slowly but surely releasing this mortal coil.
They need to create a new core market and their attempts to get a foot into any door should be applauded before they go the same way as so many other great marques...
......like BMW and Mercedes perhaps, once Masters of the "You've arrived" type car......
......now just expensive versions of VW.
Yes im sure Jag could also produce a hatchback, estate, pretend 4x4 off-roader, SUV, fat bloated pretend sports car, and every other combo going.....
......but why should they.
Jaguar have a rep for luxury barges and a heritage based around sports cars. There is no need to follow the herd and dilute the brand to the extent Merc and BMW have done.
What next - an entry-level shopping car from mothers and wifeys from Bentley.
this is certainly an interesting quandary. I was quite taken by the idea of an entry-level jaguar coupe with s-type styling (see 6th picture down in the right column), but this appears to have been a styling proposal of what I just described repackaged to again advertise jaguar's very recent foray into diesels and the fact that jaguar is looking to find out which modern styling direction it should take so that it can eventually let go of the safe but elegant styling shown in the new XJ. This car taken in isolation is nothing more than the best looking hatchback I've ever seen. That may be damning with faint praise though. If it gets produced, I'd love to have one, and I'd be thrilled to say I own a jag too, but somehow I expect passengers, upon seeing my new "jag" to say, "wow, they really don't make them like they used to," regardless of what they actually think about the car. It is not a jaguar in any traditional sense, but maybe that's what jag needs. Gosh I hope not. We need flavors in the automotive world, and jag producing a car such as this is a dilution the world should not have to stomach.
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