NEW JAGUAR F-TYPE MAKES WORLD PREMIERE WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HOT WHEELS ®

2 December 2019

The new Jaguar F-TYPE has completed its journey from sketchpad to showroom with a unique tour – in Hot Wheels® model form – of the Jaguar Design Studio.

  • New Jaguar F-TYPE ready to hit the road after taking unique tour of the Jaguar Design Studio in miniature, camouflaged, Hot Wheels® form
  • 1:64-scale model sports car made a dramatic entrance on a custom-designed 232-metre Hot Wheels® track, making 25 loop-the-loops and three gravity-defying jumps
  • New F-TYPE’s timeless design evolves with flowing clamshell bonnet, subtly enlarged grille, super-slim Pixel LED headlights*, sculpted new bumpers and slender rear lights with ‘Chicane’ signature
  • New 12.3-inch Interactive Driver Display, luxurious materials and beautiful detailing define driver-focused interior
  • Engines include 300PS turbocharged four-cylinder and 450PS and 575PS supercharged V8s, all offering outstanding performance and driver reward
  • Available to order now at jaguar.co.uk and priced from £54,060 in the UK
NEW JAGUAR F-TYPE REVEALED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HOT WHEELS - iNFOGRAPHIC

Monday 2 December 2019, Whitley, UK – The new Jaguar F-TYPE has completed its journey from sketchpad to showroom with a unique tour – in Hot Wheels® model form – of the Jaguar Design Studio.

The 1:64 scale sports car model, complete with perfectly recreated black and white camouflage wrap, navigated 25 loop-the-loops, three gravity-defying jumps and 44 corners along the 232-metre long Hot Wheels orange track laid out around the studio.

On the way, it raced from a design review of original sketches, past digital renderings, colour and materials samples and a clay model, revealing the details of new F-TYPE’s purposeful, beautiful and timeless design before coming to rest beside the real thing.

As a designer and huge car enthusiast, Hot Wheels models have been a part of my life since childhood. They capture the imagination, make owning the car of your dreams a reality, and give you the first opportunity to actually ‘drive’ a car.

We are used to creating models in clay but seeing such a finely-detailed 1:64-scale model of the new F-TYPE race around the studio, showcasing every stage in our design process, was a truly unique experience.

Julian Thomson
Design Director, Jaguar

NEW JAGUAR F-TYPE REVEALED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HOT WHEELS

Working in close collaboration, designers from Jaguar and Hot Wheels used the CAD data of the real car to craft the precise 3D-printed model, recreating every beautiful detail of the new F-TYPE, including its striking new clamshell bonnet, distinctive super-slim Pixel LED headlights and more sculpted front and rear bumpers.

The Hot Wheels team also faithfully recreated the Velocity Blue colour from the SVO Premium Palette, and even hand-painted the F-TYPE badge on the back before the model was camouflaged ahead of its own ‘reveal’ in the film.

While the Hot Wheels model features a full interior, you need to step inside the life-size F-TYPE to truly experience the rich, luxurious materials such as Windsor Leather and Noble Chrome which define the new F-TYPE’s driver-focused cabin. Beautiful details surround the occupants, such as the monogram stitching in the seats and door panels and ‘Jaguar Est. 1935’ markings in the glovebox release button surround – a subtle reference to the year when the Jaguar name was first used by company founder Sir William Lyons to brand one of his beautiful cars.

Where the model relied purely on gravity to accelerate it up to speed, the new Jaguar F-TYPE is available with a range of powerful and efficient engines: a 300PS turbocharged four-cylinder and 450PS and 575PS supercharged V8s. The latter is exclusive to the new F-TYPE R and, combined with all-wheel drive, delivers truly extraordinary performance in all gears and in all conditions. Launching from 0-60mph takes just 3.5 seconds.

The tiny F-TYPE reached scale speeds of up to 300mph along the custom-built track which was designed and developed with the guidance of Official Hot Wheels master track designer Paul Schmid.

We’ve been working with Jaguar for over 40 years but this was an opportunity to do something really special with a car that was not yet on sale. To go behind the doors of the top-secret Jaguar Design Studio and work with the talented design team to bring this car to life and reveal it on our unmistakable orange and blue track was a unique opportunity.

Bryan Benedict
Senior Manager of Product Design at Hot Wheels

The state-of-the-art Jaguar Design Studio opened in September, bringing the entire design team into one purpose-built creative space for the first time in the marque’s 84-year history. The most technologically-advanced design studio in the world, it features industry-leading modelling robotics, virtual reality, an 11-metre 4K powerwall, and has double the floor space of the previous site – allowing 20 full-size clay models to be worked on simultaneously.

Available to order now at www.jaguar.com and priced from £54,060 in the UK.

** Pixel LED headlights are available as standard on the new F-TYPE R and as an option on the F-TYPE and F-TYPE R-Dynamic derivatives (£1200 inc VAT).

Useful links:

To download the full Jaguar F-TYPE media kit, please visit the media website: https://media.jaguar.com/en-gb

ENDS

Further information

About Jaguar

Jaguar’s heritage of elegant design and breathtaking performance has excited and delighted the world for over 80 years. Today’s world-class Jaguar family comprises the award-winning XE, XF and XJ saloons, the dramatic F-TYPE sports car, the F-PACE performance SUV – the fastest-selling Jaguar ever – the E-PACE compact performance SUV and I-PACE, the all-electric performance SUV and 2019 World Car of the Year that puts Jaguar at the forefront of the electric vehicle revolution.

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For more information visit www.media.jaguar.co.uk

For further information contact:

Tracey Tompsett, Jaguar UK PR Manager
+44 7469 032 064
ttompset@jaguarlandrover.com

Jessica Jay, Jaguar UK Senior Press Officer
+44 7469 021 135
jjay3@jaguarlandrover.com 

Notes to Editors

Editors’ notes

The Jaguar F-TYPE is the definitive Jaguar sports car and has won 178 awards to date, including World Car Design of the Year.

The Jaguar F-TYPE range offers an unrivalled breadth of capability in the sports car segment, from the entry-level rear-wheel drive 300PS four-cylinder model up to the all-wheel drive 575PS V8 R.

Complementing the 12 core paint colours, customers can choose from 16 exclusive colours in the SVO Premium Palette, each one meticulously designed by Special Vehicle Operations.

Jaguar’s sports car lineage spans more than 71 years, beginning with the XK 120. At reveal at the Earls Court Motor Show in October 1948, this beautiful 120mph roadster was the world’s fastest production car.

The new Hot Wheels Jaguar F-TYPE 1:64-scale die cast model sports car will be available in November 2020.