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DESIGN EVOLUTION: 80 YEARS OF JAGUAR - PART 2 (Part 1 was printed last month)

E ighty years of Jaguar means eighty years of icon-

ic design. The Jaguar family has changed with the times, but the bloodline to today’s range is clear. Here, we’re tracing just a handful of the key design mo-ments which we’re still inherit-ing inspiration from today. In part two, we start with the 1960s and see the creation of more iconic legacies. This was the time that truly established Jaguar design, and is still in-spiring the cars of today. 1960: A TRUE ICON The Jaguar E-type was once

called “the greatest crumpet collector known to man” by America’s Road & Track maga-zine, and has since become one of the most-loved examples of British car design. The E-type

has been revered right from its inception. Much like the XK120 before it, when the E-type was premiered at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show. It put every rival in the shade. It changed the perfor-mance car landscape forever. It perfectly encapsulated the fe-line grace of the Jaguar name. With its impossibly long and el-egant bonnet and sleek mono-coque design, E-type embodied beautiful form with impressive function. And, with a 3.8 litre straight six engine, its performance matched its looks. The all-aluminum lightweight E-type was the race-specific version, of which only 12 were built with an original 18 planned. These became legend, one that was revived in 2014 with the pro-

duction of the Missing Six. “Jaguar in the 1950s and 1960s was a really cool, modern brand. It wasn’t very consistent, and the cars didn’t bear a strong family resem-blance, but the funda-mental brand values – the sense of excite-ment, the purity – drove

everything.” IAN CALLUM, Jaguar Director of Design (Continued on page 2)

1966: THE GREATEST JAGU-AR THAT NEVER WAS Built in great secrecy, the XJ13 was intended to compete at Le Mans. But, owing to changes in regulation and an emphasis on pro-duction cars, the overall project stalled. The shape of the XJ13 was a masterpiece, and though only one was ever built, it was fitting trib-ute to the work of Say-er who had shaped Jagu-ar design forever. Com-pact, lithe and innately feline, it even show-

cased its spectacular V12 engine beneath its rear window. Though it never fulfilled its rac-ing potential, the XJ13 did take to the track in 1971 as part of an E-type marketing campaign to demonstrate the V12 engine. The XJ13 had been the first Jaguar to be fitted with a V12 back in 1966. While filming, one of the magne-sium alloy wheels collapsed, and the car rolled. At the wheel, Norman Dewis had the composure to switch the engine off in mid-air and he escaped unharmed. The XJ13 was rebuilt and sur-vives today as the most priceless, and perhaps the most beautiful, Jaguar of all time – which now resides in the Jaguar Heritage

Collection. 1968: THE START OF A LIN-EAGE The Jaguar XJ6 was the last car

designed by Sir William Lyons and was testa-ment to his bold touch. He was clearly proud of his design, and even appeared in the advertis-ing campaign professing the XJ6 as “the greatest Jaguar ever.” Perhaps

he was correct. The XJ6 effec-tively replaced Jaguar’s existing saloon range, and it went on to become Lyon’s longest-lived creation. The body shape of the XJ6 was a Lyons master-stroke, and in an era where other cars were start-ing to lose their character, the Jaguar identity clearly shone through. The XJ6’s effects are still being felt today. It was this model that inspired future Jaguar Director

of Design, Ian Callum. When he was just 14, Callum wrote to Bill Heynes, Vice Chairman of Jaguar, asking for advice and enclosing some of his own car designs.

Heynes’ reply was en-couraging, advising Cal-lum to improve his craft by studying art and en-gineering drawing – and said Callum had a flair for the styling side of the design process. It was the inspiration from the XJ6, and Heynes’ positive response, that crystallised Callum’s in-terest in cars – and in Jaguar.

1975: REPLACING AN ICON The task of replacing the iconic E-type fell to Malcolm Sayer. His XJ-S was even more aerodynamic than its predecessor, thanks to its flying buttress C-pillars and concave rear window. New safety regulations meant there was a need to move away from the free and easy spirit of the 1960s E-type. But it still channelled luxury and embodied

the bold Jaguar outlook. The XJ-S also debuted the third all-original Jaguar engine, with a new straight six 3.6 litre beneath the bonnet. The V12 engine – it-self (Continued on page 3)

updated - added to the design’s air of luxury, but re-vealed its sporting potential too. 1996: THE FASTEST SELL-ING SPORTS CAR Just as the XK120 introduced the world to the Jaguar straight six engine, the XK8 introduced the first ever Jag-uar V8. Its design took inspiration from the iconic Jaguars of the past. Though now under Ford ownership, it was fitting that the plans chosen for the new Jaguar sports car were those of Geoff Lawson and the Jag-uar design team.

This heritage is clear in the design, which blends past Jag-uar faces into a sleek shape that met all the modern re-quirements of space, safety

and luxury. The XK8 went on to become the fastest selling sports car in Jaguar’s history at the time.

Updated: 1-9-20

DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION

Jan 26 (Sun) 9 AM - 3 PM Metro Porsche Snowflake Rally Start: Hauppauge Diner

525 Smithtown Bypass Hauppauge, NY 11788

Feb 13 (Thur) 7 PM - 9 PM General Meeting - AGM Planning

Hauppauge diner www.hpdiner.com


Feb 22 (Sat) 9:30 AM - 12 PM Visit 631 Coatings www.631coatings.com

258 Broadhollow Road farmingdale, NY 11735

March 15 (Sun) 9 AM - 2 PM Cars & Coffee at Motor Classics

Combined event with Mercedes, Porsche & Ferrari Clubs

www.motorcarclassics.com

380 Smith Street Farmingdale, NY 11735

** Mar 21 (Sat) 9 AM - 1 PM Open House at Automotive Restorations www.automotiverestorations.com

100 Lupes Stratford, CT, 06615

Apr 26 (Sun) 9:30 AM - 11:30AM

12 PM - 1 PM 1 PM - 4 PM

Spring Dust Off 1. Tour Charlie Noto Car Collection

2. Rally to Restaurant 3. Bunch at Snapper Inn

2000 Arctic Drive Bohemia, NY 11746

Brunch Location: 500 Shore Drive Oakdale, NY 11769

May 14 (thur) 7 PM - 9 PM General Meeting - AGM Planning



**May 17 (Sun) Rain Date:

**June 7 (Sun) 9 AM - 2 PM

Car & Antique Plane Show Bayport Aerodrome

www.bayportaerodromesociety.org 531 Renee Drive

Bayport, NY 11705

May 30 (Sat) May 31 (Sun)

10AM - 4 PM Each Day

Greenwich Concours www.greenwichconcours.com

Roger Shermin Baldwin Park 100 Arch Street

Greenwich, CT 06830

June 7 (Sun) 11 AM - 4 PM

Summer Scramble at the Vanderbilt Estate Guided Tour of the Mansion.

Relaxed garden party overlooking the Harbor Guided tour of the mansion

Bring your Jaguar or other car. www.vanderbiltmuseum.com

180 Little Neck Road Centerport, NY 11721

June 14 (Sun) 9 AM - 4 PM Jaguar Club of Southern New England

Concours d'Elegance www.jcsne.org

Lyman Orchard South Street Extension Middleton, CT 06455

**July 11 (Sat) Rain Date:

**July 12 (Sun) 10 AM - 4 PM

Vintage European Sports Car & Motorcycle Show

www.facebook.com/carshowstonybrook

Stony Brook Community Church 216 Christian Ave

Stony Brook, NY 11790

Events in red type are JDCLI Club sponsored events. Events in black are nearby automotive-related events that members may want to attend.

** Please note that the dates with ** are last year's dates and the 2020 dates have not been announced.

DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION

July 12 (Sun) 9 AM - 3 PM Metrp Porsche Spring Rally Gimmick Rally to North Fork Vineyard TBD

July 18 (Sat) 10 AM - 3 PM East End Automotive Tour - visit 3 Locations

Timeless Classics East End Restorations

Marc Lemchen's Car Collection

3 Commercial Park Quogue, NY 11959

Aug 9 (Sun)

10 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 - 1 PM

1 PM - 4 PM

1. Jags at the Northport Veterans Facility www.northport.va.org

2. Rally to volunteers Brunch 3. Volunteers Brunch at Mike & Barbars's

Home

70 Middleville Road Northport, NY 11746

9 Frazier Court Greenlawn, NY 11740

Sept 4 (Fri) Thru

Sept 6 (Sun) 9 AM - 5 PM

Each Day Vintage Car Racing Festival at Lime Rock

www.limerock.com Lime Rock Park

60 White Hollow Road Lakeville, CT 06039

Sept 13 (Sun) Rain Date

Sept 20 (Sun) 8 AM - 4 PM Vanderbilt Concours d'Elegance

www.jdcli.org Vanderbilt Estate & Museum

180 Little Neck Road Centerport, NY 11721

Sept 27 (Sun) 9 AM - 1 PM Non-Judged Car Show Boy Scout Troop 113

Walt Whitman Mall Huntington, NY

**Oct 3 (Sat) 9 AM - 4 PM Alternative for Children's Rally www.alternatives4children.org TBD

**Oct 3 (Sat) 9 AM - 4 PM Bridgehampton Vintage Rally www.bhmuseum.org

Bridgehampton Museum 2368 Main Street

Bridgehampton, NY 11788

Oct 4 (Sun) 10 AM - 2 PM Visit & Tour Sagamore Hill Historic Site www.nps.gov/sahi

20 Sagamore Hill Road Oyster Bay, NY 11711

Oct 25 (Sun) 9 AM - 4 PM Club Rally & Winery Visit TBD

Nov 5 (Thur) 7 PM - 9 PM General Meeting - AGM Planning



Nov 15 (Sun) 9:30 AM - 1 PM Tech Session TBD

Dec 5 (Sat) 12 PM - 4 PM Holiday Brunch

Northport Yacht Club northportyacht club.com

8 Bluff Point Road Northport NY 11768

Dec 19 (Sat) 10 AM - 1 PM Wreaths Across America

Veterans Wreath Laying Ceremony

Long Island National Cemetery 2040 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, NY 11735

DESIGN EVOLUTION: 80 YEARS OF JAGUAR - PART 3

J aguar design was reinvigorat-ed in the new millennium. It

evolved, building on its recent years but moving above and be-yond some of the more conserva-tive, retrospective designs. It started to take on a whole new outlook. In large part, this was driven by Ian Callum, Jaguar Di-rector of Design since 1997. The following two decades have breathed new life into the Jagu-ar family, taking inspiration and vitality from the past and reimagining it for today. “If you look at any Jaguar in history, the one thing it’s got against all the other cars is that it’s always a more exciting shape. When you see a Jaguar on the road it catches the corner of your eye and you want to turn around and look at it. That’s what a Jaguar must do. So that’s where we start off.” IAN CALLUM, Jaguar Di-rector of Design 2006: A NEW DESIGN DIRECTION The 2006 XK was the first new Jaguar of the millennium, and the first designed under the aegis of Ian Callum.

From the echoes of the Jaguar E-type in the grille and rear lights, to its innovative aluminum monocoque construction, the ref-

erences to the great past Jaguars are there. But the XK is clearly a product of the 21st century. It was elegance, rede-fined with deft touch. 2007: BREAKING THE MOLD The Jaguar XF infused the re-finement of the saloon with the excitement of a sports car. Its design broke the mold, with a crouched stance that hint-ed at its explosive power even when at rest. The Mark II had created the sporting saloon sector, and the XF was a worthy con-tinuation of this design innovation.

This was the first car designed from scratch under Ian Callum. Replacing the S-type, the XF was the car that evolved Jaguar into a 21st century manufacturer. Old and new came together to produce a design that turned

heads; the sportiness from the low roof and the slight-ly high beltline combined effortlessly with the recog-nizable grille of the original XJ. Now updated in 2015, its evolution contin-ues. Longer, sleeker and more elegant, but still harbouring im-pressive power and an innate sports outlook,

the XF continues to rede-fine design, luxury, tech-nology and performance for the business car

segment. 2010: REDEFINING LUXURY The XJ is a constant in the Jaguar line up, but here it made a clean break from its recent past. This was a design that aimed to get back to the exciting

outlook of 1968. There are the nods to the XJ6 with the exaggerated grille and the power bulge in the bonnet. Callum sees these as a visual influence from the past, rein-vented in a very modern way. The XJ carries the same striking sense of drama from the 1960s, combined with un-paralleled luxury and cutting edge technology. Now in its tenth iteration, the 2016

model year XJ continues to rede-fine luxury. 2012 & 2013: MOVING FORWARDS The F-TYPE is the true embodi-ment of the Jaguar marque. Its thrilling performance is coupled with design touches that both lead Jaguar forwards and hark back to its heritage, with a clear

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influence from E-type. The new interpretation of the bold Jaguar grille shows this intent, differentiating itself while reflecting the same val-ues of the past decades. The personality of F-TYPE is characterized by the cockpit-rearward stance, power bulge on the sweeping clamshell bon-net, and muscular rear haunches. It’s clear that F-TYPE is the spiritual suc-cessor to E-type. “[Jaguars] don’t have to look identical, but the values have to be the same. Powerful, dramatic, and just that 10% different to everyone else on the road” – Ian Callum, Jaguar Director of Design The F-TYPE was initially launched as a convertible only model. Following in the foot-steps of the E-type, an F-TYPE coupé followed a year later. And now, the 2016 F-TYPE is setting new stand-ards for driving dynamics and performance.

2014: A NEW ADDITION

The XE redefined the sports saloon, and changed the face of Jaguar forever. The design couples outstanding aerody-namics with exciting, compact proportions – built on the foundation of cutting-edge Aluminum Intensive Architec-ture.

This focus on functional yet beautiful design makes the XE a driver’s car. Malcolm Sayers’

mantra of form following function is clearly present with XE, a stunning car with performance to match. 2016: THE FIRST PERFORMANCE SUV The F-PACE opens a new chap-

ter in Jaguar design history as the first of our perfor-mance SUVs. Continuing the tradition of redefining seg-ments, the creation of F-PACE is a step change which demon-

strates that Jaguar design innovation is alive and well. The design of the F-PACE draws on the F-TYPE, with its sleek exterior lines combined with spacious in-terior. Ian Callum set out to design a Jaguar with the dimensions of an SUV, rather than making the Jaguar spirit fit into a predetermined mold. This allowed the influence of F-TYPE to be reflected within F-PACE’s design. Grace, space and pace – that’s what F-PACE deliv-ers.

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Editor’s Notes

A s I have noted in the past, I have never had the pleasure

of owning or driving any Jaguar. When I was in the National Guard, back in the late 1960s, one of my fellow Guardsmen owned an XK-E and he drove me home once from the Armory. Nice car, I thought, but my finances never allowed me to own one. However, Kris and I do own a 1978 Fiat X1/9, which bows to no car as far as being a real sports car. This is a Greenwich Concours class winner (2010), and we take it everywhere. A photo of the car can be found in my column in the December Jag Mag. Back in 2015, for instance, we drove the car to Pittsburgh for the annual Fiat Freakout, a gath-ering of the Fiat faithful from around the country and, some-times, beyond! After returning home I thought about the ride, and wrote the following: ———————————— Having just returned from our trip to the 32nd Fiat Freakout in Pittsburgh, from Long Island, in our 1978 X1/9, it struck me to wonder whether the folks in Italy who designed and built this car had any idea it would still be run-ning at 37 years of age. Would they have thought, back in 1978, that in 2015 this car would be traveling at speeds of 70 to 80 miles per hour for hours at a

time? In the movie, “The Spirit of St. Louis”, Jimmy Stewart plays the part of Charles Lindbergh, making the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic. At one point in the flight he muses about the number of revolutions the single engine would make, and how many times the spark plugs would fire by the time he reached Paris. It was an interesting calculation and a tes-tament to the designers of the power plant in his small airplane. While traveling back to Long Is-land on Sunday, returning from the Pittsburgh area, I had the same thoughts. At 80 miles per hour the 1290 cc engine in the X1/9 is spinning at approximately 6,000 RPM, and it did this for miles on end without any com-plaints. This is an amazing feat, considering the age and number of miles, about 80,000, on this 1290cc engine. Let’s consider some numbers: At 60 mph, the approximate aver-age speed of our round trip, the engine turns about 4,500 rpm. This works out to 270,000 revolu-tions per hour. Since the trip took approximately 7 hours, the total revolutions for one way, let’s say from home to the hotel, equals 1,890,000. Likewise, the revolutions for the trip home would also be about 1,890,000. To these numbers we have to add the time spent on the trips to and from the Fallingwater area, which was almost five hours at an aver-age of about 45 mph. This totals another 1,064,250 revolutions of the engine. Thus, the X1/9 engine spun 4,844,250 times from the time we left home until we returned. Since the engine will fire a spark plug every 180 degrees of rota-tion, or twice per revolution, the ignition fired a total of 9,688,500 times during the trip! That’s almost 10 MILLION

sparks!!! Kris and I bought the car in Sep-tember of 2004, and in the ensu-ing eleven years (that’s 15 years as of 2020!) have never thought twice of climbing into it and head-ing off to some destination, be it to the Poconos for a Freakout, or our annual Labor Day weekend trip to Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park race track. In the almost 20,000 miles we put on the car to date it has never left us stranded, always getting us to our destination and back home. While this is something we take for granted in a modern car (in May we drove our 2010 Mini Cooper S on a 12-day, 4,200-mile vacation trip to Dallas, TX and other locations), you’d think that setting off on a 1000+ mile trip in a car that clueless folks call a “fix it again, Tony” would give us some reservations. But you’d be wrong! Kris always takes offense at peo-ple claiming the name Fiat means “Fix it again, Tony”. She says the initials stand for “Finest Italian Automotive Technology”, and I think she was right regarding our X1/9, especially back in 1978! This is the second one I have owned, the last being a 1977 I used as a daily driver for 8 years, with never a mechanical problem! So, we are already planning our trip to Knoxville, TN, and the Tail of the Dragon, this July, for the 2020 Freakout, the 37th annual event. This will be a 1500-mile round trip, not counting the runs to and on the Tail of the Dragon, which may ultimately total about 1800 miles. Hmm, let’s see, at 60 miles per hour the engine spins 270,000 times per hour, multiplied by about 12 hours each way, which means a total of. . . Steve Becker 516-247-1558 [email protected]

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