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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Gaffers on 02 October 2010, 17:12:36
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Now this is thinking outside of the box:
http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/257647/968bhp_205mph_jaguar_cx75_supercar.html?CMP=NLC-Newsletters&uid=9d4bfc4673f78b0f74aa04ceb73dfc5c
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Its featured in auto express as well, looks stunning :y
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Now that looks outstanding 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
I'm looking forward to seeing something like that on the roads :y :y
Something to put BMW, Audi & Mercedes to the side lines :) :) I hope it does.
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Shagwah have to be the best concept builders ever...
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in todays mirror too, i like much!!
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Hmm my boss keeps trying to give me a company car,
I have sent him the link ;D ;D ;D ;D
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But .. but.. it's electric (well, hybrid I suppose as it's turbine generator powered). It'll just go 'whoooosh' as you go along instead of (like a proper car should) 'ROOOAARRGGHHH' :(
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It's the future whether you like it or not. You could get a sound system to replace the noise if you wish :D
Dont forget that Jaguar have a history of developing things which become standard on other cars later. Disc brakes is a good example :y
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Maybe true.. but you'll have to pry my internal combustion engine out of my cold, dead hands (or, when we run out of petrol.. which almost certainly won't be in my lifetime) ;)
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It's the future whether you like it or not. You could get a sound system to replace the noise if you wish :D
Dont forget that Jaguar have a history of developing things which become standard on other cars later. Disc brakes is a good example :y
Electric? Must admit I never read it, just a quick look at the pics. But am I missing something, jag have done bog all in recent years apart from the zf...?
Why would they wake up now with this, yet aaaanooootttttheeeeer concept, yaaaaaawn :-/
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Yep electric - IIRC from the video I saw it's got 4 x 175kW motors (one for each wheel, naturally) which get their power from two turbine electric generators (not quite sure what kind of process the generators run on; whether they're gas turbines or fuel cell somethings etc)..
But yeah, apparently someone at Tata told someone in Jaguar to go and design a new XJ220 (at least that's what the shape reminds me of..)
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http://www.jaguar.com/gb/en/about_jaguar/anniversary/c-x75/gallery_c-x75;jsessionid=233D8BFBA70BA9A63131814223A420D3?id=2148434&pg=image
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oooooH! Its got a 'FUNC' button, wassatthen?
Not to keen on the high tech interior,but otherwise,WOW!
eddie
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Maybe there's another button that says "TION". ..... ;)
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Technology-wise JLR have spent a huge amount of time over the last few years in researching alternative power systems with significant work undertaken by the likes of Ricardo for them. This concept isn't the end result of all that though, it's more of a pipe-dream to get column inches, but the company is pretty serious about making inroads into this area. From my personal perspective though the auto industry has currently got a very real reluctance to make The Big Decision and push a model range that is a real break away from traditional power. For all the marketing hype surrounding the likes of the Prius etc they are very much fancy dressing to get people's attention. It's a justified reluctance too as the infrastructure to support electric power or hydrogen power or whatever else just isn't there, and won't happen unless the cars get built. Chicken, eg, and all that.
As far as the styling is concerned, it's quite pretty but that's daming it with faint praise, as Jags should be jaw-dropping and this concept thing just doesn't do that. If that was announced tomorrow as the new XK then it would be very nice and people would buy it. I would if I could. But sports cars from Jaguar were always a bold move and this looks ike a today car, not a tomorrow spaceship.
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electric cars are the future and im not sure we won't see them in our life time either (im in my 20's).
early signs of performance are good. look at the tazler (based on the lotus elise) 0-60 is dealt with in 3.2 seconds...... not bad for an extravagent milk float ;) ;) ;)
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http://www.automobilemag.com/auto_shows/paris/2010/1009_jaguar_c_x75_concept/index.html
A bit more info !
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:o wow i love the outside of this but not too sure about the inside though :D :-? :-/
would love it sitting on my drive though :y :y
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Actually I rather like the interior, it's all very Buck Rogers. And if he drove that Jag in the 25th Century then Wilma would have been a pushover. Sadly, Jag or no Jag as I look more like Kenneth rather than Robbie Williams I'd struggle to pull Twiki. :o