Concepts and Prototypes : Jaguar XJ21 (1966-1971) - AROnline
2018年2月27日 · The Jaguar XJ21 was the missing link between the E-type sports car and XJ-S grand tourer. When the XJ-S was unveiled in 1975, many pundits were disappointed it wasn’t the out-and-out sports car they’d been hoping for. However, in truth, the XJ-S was not a direct E-type replacement at all, and was never intended as such.
Lightning Flash – Driven to Write
2022年4月6日 · Lost causes - missing links - exhuming Jaguar's stillborn XJ21. As descriptive metaphors go, bottled lightning requires little by way of explanation or exposition on the part of the writer. In 1961, Jaguar Cars successfully manged this seemingly impossible feat with the introduction of the E-Type, a car which itself would come to stand as…
Jaguar XJ21 - Classic Cars Wiki
The Jaguar XJ21 was a prototype car which was proposed by Jaguar. The car is the missing link between the E-Type and the XJS. When the XJ-S was unveiled in 1975, many classic Jaguar fans were...
Welcome to the Machine : Part Two – Driven to Write
2020年12月16日 · [3] Jaguar’s plans at one stage included a direct replacement to the E-Type in addition to a GT. The XJ21 project was essentially a reskin, employing the architecture of the long-wheelbase E, with a new Malcom Sayer-designed body skin. In early 1968 however, it was abandoned. XJ21 is profiled separately.
Jaguar XJ-S model guide - Prestige & Performance Car
2022年7月29日 · Jaguar becomes part of British Leyland and range is rationalised; Triumph takes over small sports car production for the group and XJ21 project is cancelled. Jaguar XJ27 project begins as a study into a XJ-based 2+2 sports car, taking inspiration from the Bertone Pirana show car first shown at the 1967 Earls Court Motor Show. 1970
Sayer’s Moodboard – Driven to Write
2022年10月16日 · The stillborn XJ21 programme had been a proposed reskin of the E-Type which fell prey to regulatory complications, a lack of funding and impetus. However, a good deal of the thinking which went into XJ21 was employed for XJ27 in its stead.
Jaguar XJ-S history - Drives.today
2022年1月12日 · Developed under model code XJ21, the project is widely regarded as being at least partly inspired by a design worked up by a young Jaguar apprentice of the time, Oliver Winterbottom. With his aspirations to join the styling department, Winterbottom had entered a competition organised by design house Bertone called the Concorso Grifo d’Oro and ...
Carsthatnevermadeitetc — Jaguar XJ21, 1967-1969. A proposal …
2018年4月22日 · Jaguar XJ21, 1967-1969. A proposal for a new generation E-type that was to be powered by a new (60 degree) V8 engine derived from the V12 which Jaguar had in development. The original plan was that...
Concepts and Prototypes : Jaguar XJ-S - AROnline
2015年8月1日 · Replacing the legendary E-type was never going to be easy for Jaguar – and radical thinking was going to be needed. Ian Nicholls charts the development of the prototypes which helped shape Jaguar’s brilliant 1970s GT, Projects XJ-21 and XJ-27.
Oliver Winterbottom - Wikipedia
At Jaguar, Winterbottom was part of the team that designed the XJ21 prototype that never reached production. [1] At Lotus, Winterbottom worked directly with Colin Chapman who appointed him to lead the design and safety engineering projects at Lotus Cars. Winterbottom designed the second generation Lotus Elite wedge design and the Lotus Eclat. [2]