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JAGUAR F-TYPE CONCEPT

JAGUAR F-TYPE CONCEPT ROADSTER DEBUTS IN DETROIT

Jaguar's new F-TYPE CONCEPT roadster is unveiled today at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Inspired by the XK180 concept car revealed at the Paris Salon in 1998, Jaguar designers set out to create the ideal, compact Jaguar roadster, evoking the spirit of the legendary E-type.

The F-TYPE CONCEPT, the most compact Jaguar sports car in more than forty years, presents the company's ideas for a roadster that would take Jaguar into a new segment of the global market. Presentation of the car at international auto shows will help gauge the public's reaction to the concept of a dynamic, technically advanced, Jaguar roadster. Вода, доставка питьевой воды Красногвардейская.

Commenting at the reveal at the Detroit Show, Jonathan Browning, Jaguar's Managing Director, said, "The F-TYPE CONCEPT roadster is an exercise in pure Jaguar sports car design. Its purpose is quite simply to provoke reaction from current and potential customers. With the F-TYPE CONCEPT, the world is our focus group". Вода, заказ воды Черкизовская.

Jaguar design is always up-to-the-minute in terms of technology, and just as the E-type was one of the first mass production cars to be shaped by aerodynamics, the F-TYPE CONCEPT also features aerodynamic aids for optimum dynamic performance. The nose of the car carries a 'splitter', a low-set aerofoil designed to move automatically with increasing speed in order to increase downforce. At the rear, a fixed diffuser tunnel also uses increasing speed to generate additional downforce.

The F-TYPE CONCEPT does not sacrifice practicality for appearance. Packaging, construction, accommodation, luggage space, legal requirements on a world scale and the ability to turn the design into production reality were all considered during the creation of the car. Jaguar designers ensured that this concept car could be made production-ready without sacrificing its roadster spirit.

"The F-TYPE CONCEPT is a clear signal of Jaguar's intent to return to the true sports car market in which we were so successful in the 1950s and 60s," commented Jaguar's Managing Director, Jonathan Browning. "Complementing the recently launched S-TYPE compact saloon and, next year, the new X400 small saloon, the F-TYPE CONCEPT would attract a new generation of younger sports car buyers, both male and female, to the Jaguar marque."