Behind every car is a story, and the element of design is always a chapter within it.

Jaguar UK has chosen Clerkenwell Design Week to showcase the one-off C-X75 concept car and has depicted the process from the first sketch to production through a bespoke art installation designed and produced by the Jaguar design team.

Hugo Nightingale, Senior Designer, Jaguar Cars, said: ‘We want to explain to people the art of creating a car. In some companies car design is a technical, cold process. At Jaguar it is about emotion, artistry and craftsmanship.’

He added, ‘Clerkenwell Design Week is the perfect environment for us to present the C-X75 to the design world and explain how its existence was founded on a desire to continue Jaguar’s design philosophy of flowing lines, purity of form and bespoke luxury for years to come.’

The installation reveals insights into the car design process through eight ‘windows’ each measuring two metres wide. Starting with inspiration, the journey includes creating sketchwork, material choice and sculpting full-size clay models. It is revealed that for that in the early design phase of a new car, approximately five hundred sketches are pencilled before a single theme is decided upon.

On the C-X75 Ian Callum, Design Director, Jaguar Cars, commented, ‘The C-X75 is everything a Jaguar should be. It possesses remarkable poise and grace yet at the same time has the excitement and potency of a true supercar. You could argue this is as close to a pure art form as a concept car can get.” Also on display are a selection of Jaguar’s current range of cars; the XFR, XKR-S and XJ Supersport.

Source: Jaguar PR

Photos: World Car Fans

For those also looking for a little extra muscle right from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, Arden also offers a power boosting of 30 bhp and 50 Nm of torque on top of the existing 510 bhp Top speed is also dialed on up to 320 km/h from (what one assumes is) the electronically limited 250 km/h limit of the standard XKR 5.0L.

Arden Jaguar XKR 5.0L Convertible from the 7th to the 9th August 2009 at Nürburgring.

As part of the Oldtimer Grand Prix taking place at Nürburgring, Arden is putting the new Jaguar XKR 5.0L on show.

The 2010 Jaguar XKR 5.0L model only needed slight modification due to its modelling on the Arden AJ20 Coupe design introduced at the International Automobile Fair (IAA.)in 2005. This, alongside the various well known 9×21” sportline alloy wheels, the new 5.0L possesses a redesigned chassis, which was developed in collaboration with Bilstein and improves the driving dynamics and agility of the wild cat. The special high performance stainless steel exhaust system with sport catalytics guarantees not only increases performance and improves handling at low speeds, but also has an out-of-this world sound. The four pipe system is rounded-off with the well known AJ20 Wild Cat Heck plus diffuser.

The front of the newest XKR is aesthetically improved through a specially hand-worked and chrome-plated stainless steel grill. These, along with the Arden badge with patented security fixing let the sportsman shine with a new glory.

For those who aren’t satisfied by 510bhp and a 250km/h top speed, we offer not only a performance increase of roughly 30bhp and 50Nm but also the accompanying V-Max suspension and a speedometer increased to 320km/h.

Anyone who wants to see the newest Jaguar from Arden close-up can do so from the 7th to the 9th of August in the Motosportcenter at Nürburgring. For any further questions, just ask our staff at any time.

THE FIRST SIGHT OF JAGUAR’S ALL-NEW XJ

An all-new Jaguar XJ will make its public debut this July – and today saw the preview and release of first information on this breathtaking new Jaguar.

Dependent on market, the all-new XJ will be in dealerships from the end of this year.