Excellent! Have a great time.

 

Congratulations. The quality of the Jaguar Alive Experience portends well for your journey.
Way to go.
Thanks for "taking us with you."

 

well all, the itinerary is in my hands. Looking like Monday night is the big reveal and Tuesday morning/early afternoon is lots of meetings and whatnot on the car.

Tuesday should be interesting as they are doing a lot of detailed stuff about the car and unfortunately, no cameras will be allowed during that time. So, lets see how much knowledge and facts I can cram into my head. he he he he. Gotta love photographic minds. So, hopefully there will be lots of pictures to be taken Monday night during the reveal.

 

Hmmmm.......hidden microphone maybe???..lol

Sounds great Chris, how about a little more indepth on the Itinery?
Please share

Jim

 

Here is the itinerary as I know it right now:

Sunday:

10 am: land at Heathrow Airport
12 noon: meeting up with BM3 from this site and then heading to the hotel once he gets through customs
5:30 PM - ?: Meet and greet with the group that Spark44/jaguarUSA brought (25 people in all from what I am told) in the hotel restaurant (my understanding).

Monday:

Lunch: Available for those already present
5:30 PM: Depart for Earl's Court and the festivities
6:15 PM: Arrive for the reception
7:30 PM: World premiere of the Jaguar XE
10 PM: Leave Earl's Court

Tuesday:

7 AM: Breakfast
9 AM: Catch bus to go back to Earl's Court
10:30 AM: JLR Global Dealer Conference on the XE
2 PM: Lunch
2:30 PM: Depart
4:30 PM: I am on the plane back to US.

That is as much as I know as of right now except what has been posted here about the schedule of events for the premiere itself.

 

Whoa.....BM3 is going too, what did I miss?

Please fill me in....

 

Jim, he is a member of a BMW group and I guess Jaguar opened up the invite to some of them to "convert" them. It just so happened that they picked him from that group. hence why he is coming along too.

 

Superb, hopefully as a member here he will contribute as well.

Its all good

 

I'm shocked - I figured for sure they'd pick some turtleneck-wearin Brooklyn-based social media marketing weenie. All I can say is Go Thermo!

As far as "no cameras allowed" - you wear glasses, right? Go hunt down that social marketing weenie and relieve him of his Google Glasses - they'll never notice...

 

For those that can't attend, if you get on your computer and go to the Jaguar website, they are going to be broadcasting the event live. So, be on your computer at 7:45 PM (2:45 PM EST) on Monday 9/8 to see the reveal. Then at 9:30 PM (4:30 PM EST), they will be broadcasting the new "Feel XE" song that is being written just for this show.

 

Awesome... So, when the camera pans the crowd, how can we tell which spectator is Thermo?

 

I just saw the link to this this thread from Jaguar USA's Facebook. Sweet. Congrats!

 

Clocks' ticking Chris, won't be long now buddy
Remember to update this thread at least HOURLY

 

Jim, I will be updating it as much as I can.

All, it is looking like this is turning into a car show too (imagine that). Here is a list of what they are planning on letting us see:

a. 1938 SS100 - The first Jaguar car, and an answer to the underpowered
SS90, this car reached the era’s mystical 100 MPH mark.
b. 1950 Jaguar XK120 - Jaguar’s first truly sporting car. As it’s name
reflected, the We won’t give it all away but we wouldn’t want you to
miss anything flying over London.
c. XK120 street car could still reach 120 MPH.
d. 1953 Jaguar C-Type - The “C” stands for XK120 "competition" model,
and compete it did. It won the coveted “24 Hours of Le Mans” twice.
e. 1956 Jaguar D-Type - This car won Le Mans 3 times and is the
spiritual grandfather of the F-TYPE Project 7. See the family
resemblance?
f. 1967 Jaguar MK II - The mantra of “grace, pace and space” prompted
it's popularity as a getaway car of the era.
g. 1961 Jaguar E Type - By defeating competitors in both speed and
style, the XKE is regarded by many as the most beautiful car in history.
h. 1966 Jaguar XJ13 - This prototype was built to win on the track but
never got a chance to prove itself due to racing rule changes.
i. 1969 Jaguar XJ6 - This carried the same size and performance of the
earlier Mark II “saloons” but with all new and enduring style.
j. 1983 TWR XJS - This was the Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar that
brought Jaguar cars back to track competition after a lengthy hiatus.
k. 1988 XJR 9LM - This sports-prototype race car debuted at the 1988
24 Hours of Daytona, where it earned Jaguar the overall win.

There is also supposed to a gaggle of MK II's leading the XE into Earl's Court and onto the stage as I understand it. So, should be quite the photo op.

 

I was jealous before, now even more so. Damn...

 

Grrrrr

sigh

 

Safe travels Chris !!!!!

 

I am at the airport sitting in the British Airlines lounge. If this any sign of what is to come, this is going to be one heck of a trip. Lots of pictures to come.

 

Take it easy on the Champers and smoked salmon!

 

Norri, I took it easy, only ate about a pound of it. LMAO. I am now in London. Got a ride from the airport to the hotel in a XJL (nice ride, making me want one all the more). Got a little bit of time to myself before we do a get together dinner to cover who all is attending and what the overall schedule is looking like.

If there are members in the London area, look at the post in the UK section. Looking like we have a 2 hour block late MOnday afternoon or we have all of Tuesday Morning until about 1PM.