READ > COMPETITION CLOSED: Win First Ever Re-Tyred Automotive Art Signed by Popbangcolour Paven confided that “the rear end was the area we felt we could advance” and the changes his team wrought have changed a good-looking car into a beautiful one. Previously a little bulky around the rear, it now sports new, slimmer lights, which have made a huge difference to the way the XE looks. Once they are, everything else will follow.” He went on to confide that while the Jaguar back catalogue, which includes some of the most beautiful saloon cars ever made, can “initially be a burden, it inspires us, too.”Īnd the new Jaguar XE is as lovely to look at as any Jaguar I can remember. “Ian (Callum, the former director of design at Jaguar) said that you need to get the proportions right. What makes a Jaguar a Jaguar, I ask? “The overhangs and the wheel-to-heel need to be right,” Paven told me. After pottering around in the sun for a few hours in some of Gaydon’s finest, I had some very good coffee at The Lygon Arms with Jonathan Sandys and Paven Patel, the interior and exterior design managers respectively for the revamped Jaguar XE.

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