Jaguar’s controversial new concept electric car has been leaked online – showing the vehicle in hot pink in a design likened to FAB1 from Thunderbirds and the Barbie car. The Telegraph has the story.
Images appearing to show the new model have been posted on X by Autocar magazine showing the sleek, low-slung vehicle with a long bonnet and wide grille.
The car, which will be officially unveiled at Miami Art Week tonight, is shown in bold pink and metallic blue.
The hot pink vehicle has drawn comparisons with the FAB 1 car driven by Lady Penelope in the Thunderbirds and the Barbie car. Others have suggested that Jaguar should be renamed Pink Panther in light of the overhaul.
The styling suggests a marked gear change from traditional Jaguar models as the British car maker prepares for a new generation of electric models.
The company has been gearing up for its relaunch for weeks, attracting criticism online for seemingly abandoning its traditional customers in favour of a younger new market.
The leaked images of the concept car features slim, LED lights and large alloy wheels. It does not have a rear windscreen, instead boasting a rear-view camera on each side.
The interiors adopt a minimalist design with an oval-shaped steering wheel, while the company’s divisive new logo is emblazoned on the front and back.
Jaguar’s new design, which is expected to form the basis of its upcoming electric GT, has already attracted ridicule online. …
More widely, the company has been mocked for its advert featuring catwalk models but no cars. Meanwhile, the car maker ditched its historic ‘growler’ cat logo, replacing it with a new symbol featuring the letters J and L. …
Rawdon Glover, Jaguar’s Managing Director has defended the rebrand, saying criticism of actors in the campaign had featured “vile hatred and intolerance”.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Jaguar: a company which hates not only its customers, but also its products.
What a bloody ugly monstrosity!
Glad I’ve got a beautiful xf with a leaper on the front
Well, there’s the answer to Elon Musk’s question to Jaguar: “Do you make cars?”
Yes, apparently they do, but they’re hoping not to attract the traditional customer base that has kept them going for decades.
Unfortunately, I think the company’s present direction is going to attract the sort of people who go for EVs because that’s what TPTB want them to get. But when TPTB say we should all ditch private transport and walk/cycle everywhere, who will buy these joke cars then?
FAB1 from Thunderbirds was much more stylish than any “Barbie” car, and its driver – Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, oozed class, unlike the boss of Jaguar.
Parker and Lady P would not be seen dead in that thing. Anyway, FAB1 was a Roller…
The beautiful, classic Jag has been ‘transed’. Sacrilege. Now it just looks like something out of a comedy sketch. Like Penelope Pitstop’s motor got a 21st century revamp. Well it wouldn’t look out of place on Wacky Races.
I’d rather drive any of the cars from Wacky Races than that monstrosity.
Imagine working for Jaguar designing or building or selling cars or even sweeping the floor in the factory – in years gone by you might have felt some pride in the brand, in your work, in working for a firm with such an illustrious past. Now that twerp comes along as boss man and proceeds to try and destroy everything you’ve worked for – sales might plummet and you might lose your job but Rawdon Glover and his political agenda will fall on their feet and land some other high profile role.
To be honest, I like the look of this one for a Wacky Races contestant. I reckon you’d have to avoid potholes and I don’t think the suspension looks up to much;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1863602694104961255
Lol
If it’s not an EV it will be illegal soon or that thing will be all we can afford to drive
Made of wood – eco friendly
Is that what Milibrain meant by green jobs
It does not have a rear windscreen, instead boasting a rear-view camera on each side.
These guys are obviously engineering-wise completely bonkers, in addition to apparently considering Pride parades the pinnacle of aesthetics. Hostile takeover of Jaguar as British icon by the hordes of woke with an intent to destroy it thoroughly?
German car makers are already in intense trouble for abandoning – well – car making in favour of producing internet-enabled gadgets for generation climate change with some secondary mobility functions not working particularly well.
One pothole/speedbump and the undercarriage is knackered!
Can’t imagine how much it would weigh. With those low-profile tyres I can’t see it being a comfortable ride on UK roads.
Yes I know it is a concept car so expecting parts to make it road legal are not a requirement. Can’t help thinking wing mirrors, brake lights and number plates might mess up the clean lines. But even so in my opinion the word ‘pimpmobile’ springs to mind.
Now you’ve got me thinking of thick pink (synthetic) shag pile carpet, fluffy upholstery and heart-shaped cushions.
Do you think it even has a charging port?
Is the whole thing some sort of money laundering/tax avoidance scam? It makes me think of ‘The Producers’ – in this case they are producing a car for people who don’t like cars, but it’s going to be more expensive than other cars in its class.
Jaguar has a good name but they are scrapping the logo, the cars – pretty much everything.
The only people who can afford one will be super-rich so ordinary woke warriors are not going to be able to buy one, no matter how much they hate Elon Musk.
Added to which, they are very late to the EV party, launching their vehicle at a time when heritage car companies are about to go to the wall because no-one wants to buy – EVs.
It’s all very fishy.
‘Jaguar has a good name’? – that was pushing it before this recent debacle… what with cars bursting into flames or being nicked day and night due to woeful security
Historically good, I suppose
Agreed – some amazing cars in the past… why they don’t get inspiration for their future from them is beyond me
That won’t clear the snow will it, in terms of ground clearance, although the front of it looks like you could put some form of digger on to it.
No growler, so it’s asexual then?
Its an electric TVR.
As someone who has a few decades of engineering involvement in competition cars, it looks to me an amateur joke. I know its a ‘concept car’ but would have expected a first year student design engineer to have come up with something a great deal better.
Utra-low profile tyres ( 25% or less ) on 22″ or bigger wheels are a hostage to fortune on UK’s deliberately neglected and potholed roads. More so with the all-up weight likely to be 3 to 3.5 tonnes for a battery with capacity for anything over 200 miles. And where’s the front crumple zone ? – the production wheelbase will be shorter than this.
Grilles or flat fronts are irrelevant on an electric chassis. The square grilles front and rear look like the ‘design’ guy ran out of ideas or time or both.
The front looks absolutely ghastly – so crude and bloated. It looks more like a tank. Plus how much to fix/replace the rear view cameras when they inevitably fail?
Just to be controversial, I think the side profile actually looks pretty good.
All it needs is a V8, lots of leather and lots of walnut.
And no tech, of course.
And a rear window.
And a leaping cat on the bonnet.
And the original logo.
Oh, and a colour change…
While I hate to disagree, to me the side profile looks like a fish that has swallowed a brick.
And then been stood on…
“The styling suggests a marked gear change from traditional Jaguar models as the British car maker prepares for a new generation of electric models.”
Just as the electric car market hits an almost 50% drop on last year. Who’s their business advisor? Chris Packham?
It’ll be a star in the School Run Top Trumps competition. Out local experience is a bit like a street-level John Lewis car park.
I only came for the comments. Not disappointed.
It looks like a parody of a car, just like a drag queen looks like a parody of a woman.
Looks like every other concept car, designed by CAD/CFD in a wind tunnel
I don’t understand what is the ‘younger crowd’ that Jaguar are hoping to market to. Do young people only want to buy certain cars because the adverts feature LGBTQWERTY÷ people? Because they wear vivid clothes or have weird hair do’s?
Are they trying to market only to trans people? I don’t get it.
Jaguar seem to want to shed *all* of their existing customer base and replace it with an entirely new one. Surely they are about to see their customer numbers drop by over 90%..???
Hmmm….does fucking awful cover it?
Is Jaguars MD gay? Because his behaviour and abuse of the company, and his insulting memo to staff, indicate to me that he has aggressive, gay instincts. They can be very bullying especially in this age where homosexuality is top trumps.
Sorry to disagree, but homosexuality is not top trumps these days. That was at least a decade ago, before the proliferation of letters to designate whatever flavour of sexuality people want to claim on one or more days of the year came along.
Jag used to be run, like so many successful companies, by men. Now that women and homosexuality has taken over, they’re all fecked.
A bit like the UK since Labour took over, you mean? And there were Johnson and Sunak doing such a grand job…
Hang on, what do you mean none of those leaders identify as women or gays? How very inconvenient facts are for you, once again.
FAG-UArE. See, anyone can do it. Just make it pink and have some trannies dance around it.
It looks like a cartoon car. Perhaps they’re auditioning for a spot on Wacky Races?
Presume Lady Penelope will be buying one. Not sure Parker would like it though.
Sounds as if Rawdon would be more at home as editor of Vogue
All Jaguar has really is it’s marque/name. What a blow to that this CEO has made. Such arrogance and delusion. This is similar to the CEO of Coca-Cola when in his arrogance he decided phasing out Coke Classic was a good idea. He never survived and in fact has become a legend in business schools teaching about living in ivory towers and becoming full of yourself.
At least in a normal car, if someone runs you over you have a chance of trying to keep between the wheels, like in the movies. But with this model slung so low to the ground, you’ve got no chance at all. They need to put a “Cowcatcher” on the front.
Yikes!
I’m surprised it doesn’t have square wheels to match the rest of the design