Jaguar’s ‘woke’ rebrand is an unalloyed success
The IndependentThe “pink flamingo”, as I think it should be nicknamed, has landed. The two show cars, in “Miami Pink” and “London Blue”, have burst onto the automotive scene like a couple of drag queens at a Reform UK rally – out, loud and proud. Rightly, Jaguar has ignored traditional styling cues “iconic” in past models such as the E-type, the Mark 2 beloved of Inspector Morse or the elegant XJ saloons. Back in the 1990s, motoring journalists used to beg Jaguar to bring out new retro-styled models redolent of such past successes – to revitalise the brand’s fortunes and delight the eye, in equal measure. The Jaguar Type 00 demonstrates how important and potent in the car world is the old Italian expression “everything must change so that everything can stay the same”, a quotation, appropriately enough, from the novel “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.