The XK, the one you can still go out and buy today, is a very old model at heart, basically unchanged from the days Jaguar still thought the rising rotary automatic gearbox selector was cool…
Now we learn from UK magazine Autocar, which recently spoke with Jag’s design boss Ian Callum, a little bit more about what the automaker wants to replace it with and what the grille of this new car will look like.
Apparently, all future Jags will ditch the familiar oval grille that has for so long almost been part of the badge it carries, in favor of a newfangled trapezoidal one that everybody else is using. The next XK will get it too, and also see its position in the range (and market) change from what it is today, since it’s now in the territory of the newer and more appealing F-Type in its current (GT cruiser) form.
If we turn to Callum’s words, he says “A direction change is a valid question,” and adds that in the future “the XK will have a different job to do.”
So, do you think it’s that big of a loss, or are you more interested what Jaguar’s idea of a trapezoidal grille is like?
By Andrei Nedelea
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