Optical Illusion
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Sending PM.
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Post this on the thread where the poor bugger's top wont go up.
If it was designed as a convertible originally, how come my chassis has few parts.
Last edited by Queen and Country; 01-28-2019 at 04:57 PM.
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Cause it needs no additional parts to stiffen the chassis.
Thats why it seems improbable that the controvertible was designed first.
Unless done by a daft person, it would be easier to eliminate the top and add additional braces than to build a top on a convertible car. Which seems to be the case.
I would further imagine that it would be near impossible to make the lines on the coupe meet so harmoniously unless designed ground up- the inverse would be true of the vert.
Thats why it seems improbable that the controvertible was designed first.
Unless done by a daft person, it would be easier to eliminate the top and add additional braces than to build a top on a convertible car. Which seems to be the case.
I would further imagine that it would be near impossible to make the lines on the coupe meet so harmoniously unless designed ground up- the inverse would be true of the vert.
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It's the coupe we're seeing first, but the XK was initially designed as a convertible. "If you get the convertible right, the coupe will naturally follow," Callum says. "It doesn't always work if you do a coupe and cut the roof off. I didn't want something that looked like a bathtub with a hole in it." The convertible has a cloth roof that stores neatly under a hard tonneau cover. "We looked at doing just one car with a folding metal hardtop like the Mercedes SL," admits Callum, "but that's a three-box car. That's not a Jaguar."
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Structurally the car was designed with the convertible in mind.
From a manufacturing stand point the cars go through identical processes except for a few parts.
Unlike cars of the 1990's and before where Convertibles were a follow up model, the XK was designed to be both from the start.
From an aesthetics standpoint I am not sure if one came first, or both were being worked on. I would imagine based on the concept car that the coupe was styled first, since they released a concept of a coupe. Doesn't prove anything.
From a manufacturing stand point the cars go through identical processes except for a few parts.
Unlike cars of the 1990's and before where Convertibles were a follow up model, the XK was designed to be both from the start.
From an aesthetics standpoint I am not sure if one came first, or both were being worked on. I would imagine based on the concept car that the coupe was styled first, since they released a concept of a coupe. Doesn't prove anything.
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I had noted in magazines that many manufacturers started with both/convertible in mind near the turn of the millennium.
The Porsche 997, and Corvette C6 being two notable examples. I had also noted this was true for the X150.
It would be interesting if some day someone did a "notch back" by making a hard top with the convertible lines.
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Side Vent- Functional?
"5. This vent will become a Jaguar design signature. It's functional: There's a low-pressure area behind the wheel that helps draw air through."
So the XKR has two sets of functional vents - one set in the hood (bonnet) and the other set in the front fenders (wings).
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