This will make you appreciate your 5l XK/R
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Ian never worked for Aston Martin. Its understandable confusion.
But the real eye-opener I will let you read for yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB7
But the real eye-opener I will let you read for yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB7
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I am not sure what you mean by "Ian never worked for Aston Martin." In the article you cite he is credited with styling the DB7. He also was responsible for styling the DB9, Vantage, and Vanquish. For a short period of time he was design director at both Jaguar and Aston Martin. If he never did design work for Aston, he sure got a lot of credit for nothing!
I mean no disparagement whatsoever to Aston Martin, rather an appreciation for what we have. Aston was never ever even a company. Its contributed virtually nothing to the automotive world, not just in comparison to Jaguar but even Lada. It went bankrupt in 1924 and again in 26. Therein lies the problem, they never had any of the founder's direction, like McLaren or Lyons. And all that happened before the automotive revolution began. Since then its been an adopted child of many. Kinda like Jaguar was for a very brief period. But long after it had made its mark with several incredible cars.
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It all tally's up that our critically exclusive cars are really a hodgepodge of stock parts. That's my argument that your constant snobbishness about the Jaguar exclusivity really falls flat when you look hard enough. Personally I think having a ton of 'stock' parts is great. Makes getting spares a lot simpler and less expensive and that Ford choice to have Jaguars use stuff out of the parts bins is what gave them the reliability to get back in the game.
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Why don't you do us all a favor and kindly point out some significant maintenance parts 5.0 that we can buy from the Ford part's counter. Just like the guy did in the video where he showed Aston owners can save a 50% by buying a Jaguar sourced Denso starter from Jaguar.
This way you can be more matter of fact and not hypothetical. Also you will have an opportunity to destroy my bigger delusion of Jaguar's fierce independence.
Do you know how I know you will fail? By your logic of using tried and tested, readily available, keep costs down, don't reinvent the wheel, Jaguar would have just used a bogus Ford small block turbo charged engine. They did the opposite, designed a motor from the ground up, 100% new, instead of grabbing engines sitting on the shelf in the same building that Ford wanted them to.
Why take the risk of unreliability, especially with Jaguar's history, why go through the herculean task and cost of tooling a new engine design and engine assembly plant design. Why anger your rulers.
When you can answer those questions, you will get it.
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Queen & Country ... According to Wikipedia ...
"Ian Callum is a Scottish car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, Aston Martin, and in 1999 became the Director of Design for Jaguar Cars. In 1991 he was appointed Chief Designer and General Manager of TWR Design. During this period he was partially responsible for designing the Aston Martin DB7, which is probably the design he is currently most famous for. He also designed the Aston Martin Vanquish, the V12-powered DB7 Vantage and Aston Martin's Project Vantage concept car as well as taking responsibility for a wide range of design programs for other TWR clients, including Volvo, Mazda and HSV."
"Ian Callum is a Scottish car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, Aston Martin, and in 1999 became the Director of Design for Jaguar Cars. In 1991 he was appointed Chief Designer and General Manager of TWR Design. During this period he was partially responsible for designing the Aston Martin DB7, which is probably the design he is currently most famous for. He also designed the Aston Martin Vanquish, the V12-powered DB7 Vantage and Aston Martin's Project Vantage concept car as well as taking responsibility for a wide range of design programs for other TWR clients, including Volvo, Mazda and HSV."
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Sinde- the order of event is the important thing. He worked for TWR (a Jaguar partner who helped with the design of the XJ220 supercar few years earlier) when Ian was given a Jaguar design and asked to add some clues that would make it an Ashton.
You can confirm with his own resume on Wiki. He has never worked directly for Aston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Callum
You can confirm with his own resume on Wiki. He has never worked directly for Aston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Callum