This night Jaguar launched its audacious Kind 00 idea at Miami Artwork Week, with the pink and blue pair of coupes previewing the electrical four-door GT that may go on sale in 2026 as the primary mannequin in Jaguar’s utterly reinvented lineup. A lot of digital ink has been spilled concerning the Kind 00’s radical appears and its extraordinarily controversial brand redesign and accompanying model marketing campaign — it doesn’t matter what you consider the automobile, there’s no denying it’s essentially the most anybody has talked about Jaguar in a long time.
Personally I’m an enormous fan of the Kind 00, and whereas the haters gained’t admit it, the idea has a professional design connection to certainly one of historical past’s most iconic Jaguars. I feel it actually appears like how the E-Kind coupe may need if it had remained in manufacturing for the previous fifty years, and thru the magic of Photoshop I’ve produced this side-by-side photographs to indicate simply how linked these two Jags are. Now, these comparability photographs are positively not completely to scale; we don’t have dimensions however the Kind 00 is actually a lot huger than the E-Kind and rides on 23-inch wheels, so I simply positioned the vehicles to be about equal size in these photographs so you possibly can actually see the similarities.
The Kind 00 has Jaguar’s longest hood and dash-to-axle ratio in ages, and related quantities of rear overhang to the E-Kind. I see E-Kind in the best way the Kind 00’s nostril sharply turns down simply on the entrance of the wheels, and the rear diffuser kinda echoes the E-Kind’s exhaust. The equally formed doorways of the Kind 00 create cutlines like these of the E-Kind’s doorways and hood, utilizing the traces to accommodate hidden cameras and storage. Jaguar additionally aped the E-Kind’s hood within the top-down view, with the Kind 00 having a straked panel with a horizontal line on the entrance and an ideal curve on the opposite aspect on the base of the windshield, identical to the part of nostril between the E-Kind’s hood edge and windshield.
There’s a whole lot of tumblehome (how a lot the greenhouse curves inward in the direction of the roof alongside the edges) on each vehicles, and the greenhouse properly tapers in the direction of the tailgate on each vehicles. Each vehicles have a wraparound windshield, although the Kind 00’s aspect home windows are angular on the C-pillar as an alternative of curved. Additionally from the top-down view you possibly can see simply how a lot the Kind 00’s rear quarter panels curve rearward, virtually identically to the E-Kind, and the way the seemingly bluff tail really has various curve to it.
The vehicles’ faces are completely totally different, expressive in numerous methods, however there are nonetheless issues just like the Kind 00’s crisp entrance fender line that jogs my memory of the E-Kind. Once more, the Kind 00’s rear finish design feels completely futuristic, however its rear fenders are equally vast and pronounced. The E-Kind coupe’s side-hinged, barely bulbous hatch has at all times delighted me, and the Kind 00 has its personal bizarre method to a liftgate, with that metallic panel shifting up and ahead to show the cargo space.
So, what do you assume? Am I utterly loopy, or do you see the E-Kind vibes? There’s a appropriate reply, and it’s agreeing with me.
