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Revealed overnight in Europe, the sleek little craft is intended to highlight the brand’s styling DNA, and tie in with the lines of the new Jaguar XF Sportbrake Brake wagon.
However it also pays tribute to the stories brand’s performance history. The 6.1m boat’s gleaming gel coat fibreglass hull is topped with natural teak decking set off by a full-length carbon-fibre fin – inspired by the design of the legendary Jaguar D-Type race car.
The sharp bow carries up into the highly aerodynamic backswept windscreen, while the three-seater cabin tips a wink to sportscar heritage with red upholstery and the fuel filler caps take their design cue from the flagship Series-1 XJ of the late 60s.
But there’s also been some attention paid to water worthiness, with a polished aluminium propeller and pop-up mooring post – neither of which is likely to ever get even slightly damp, since Jaguar has no plans to ever put it into production.
The Concept Speedboat was built purely to show how Jaguar’s design language would translate outside blueprint of a car.
“I have always had a passion to create such an object and it seemed fitting that we relate this to a lifestyle vehicle such as the Jaguar XF Sportbrake,” Jaguar director of design Ian Callum says. “The two sit together perfectly.”
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