Jaguar XF Sportbrake gets matching Jaguar Speedboat

Jaguar has revealed a Speedboat Concept at the first XF Sportbrake driving events to show how Jaguar design translates in other products.

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The new Jaguar XF Sportbrake is scheduled to land in UK dealers in November, but ahead of that Jaguar is letting media and dealers loose on their new XF Estate. And just to add an extra bit of interest they’ve brought along something different – a Jaguar Speedboat.

Before you get too excited, the Jaguar Speedboat isn’t a new item on the XF Sportbrake’s option list, but an exercise in translating Jaguar’s design philosophy in to an alternative product; one that fits seamlessly with Jaguar’s ‘Lifestyle’ pitch for the XF Sportbrake.

Jaguar’s design guru, Ian Callum, said:

We recognise that both our existing and future customers enjoy diverse and active lifestyles. With the launch of the new Jaguar XF Sportbrake, we had an opportunity to create a vision of how our design philosophy might be applied to an alternative product, in which speed and beauty are also priorities.

The Concept Speedboat looks powerful. It follows, in so many ways, the idea of a traditional speedboat but with the sleek and fast characteristics that you would expect from a Jaguar Car.

The Jaguar speedboat has a gel coat fibreglass hull with teak decking and a carbon fibre fin inspired by the D-Type. It gets a fuel filler cap inspired by the Series 1 XJ, and a polished aluminium propeller and a pop-up mooring post just for show.

The Jaguar Sportbrake looks great and, even though it will never go in to production, it’s a great foil for the XF Sportbrake to encourage extra column inches.

Just like this.

Jaguar XF Sportbrake Photos | Jaguar Speedboat Photos