ex. 1) Jaguar XK60 By London Eye
By Gunnar Heinrich | IMG by Jaguar Cars via CAR
NEW and old. Old and new.
The British are particularly adept, nay, downright Sisyphean at bringing history and environment into symbolic context.
How appropriate then, that London provided the stage for the launch of Jaguar’s XK60 last month; commemorating 60 years of sporting heritage under the XK nameplate.
In every sense Albion’s capital is where Yorkshire Pudding meets Chicken Tikka. It’s a curried, bloody and wonderful mess of the grandly historic forced alongside the ephemeral.
Mostly, Jag’s catfish XK sticks to tradition – XKE tradition.
Parked next to a rally ready XK120; a hallmark of late 40s/ early 50s GB motoring, the XK60 stands as sharply apart as the towering wheel that’s the London Eye (the base of which we see in the background) does next to the elegantly Edwardian London County Hall (also pictured).
How apt.
About the Author: Gunnar Heinrich is publisher of Automobiles De Luxe online and is executive producer of the Automobiles De Luxe Television series on PBS member station CPTV.
