The Jaguar R-Coupe is a
concept car
A concept car (also known as a concept vehicle, show vehicle or prototype) is a car made to showcase new styling and/or new technology. They are often exhibited at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or ...
developed by the British car company
Jaguar
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. It was first shown to the public at the
Frankfurt Motor Show
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in 2001.
Designed by
Ian Callum
Ian Stuart Callum (born 30 July 1954) is a Scottish car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, and Aston Martin. In 1999 he became the Director of Design for Jaguar Cars, later Jaguar Land Rover, a position he held until mid 2019.
In 201 ...
, the four-seater, two-door coupe showed a new direction for Jaguars, which developed from the style of the 1999
Jaguar S-Type. It is the first Jaguar design fully created under Callum's direction after his appointment to the company in 1999.
The R-Type is designed around the
XKR's supercharged V8 engine and rear-drive drivetrain, but Jaguar emphasised that there were no plans for production.
External links
R-Coupe page at the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust
References
{{Jaguar modern timeline
R-Coupe
R-Coupe