Coming out with a new luxury sedan can
be a truly daunting prospect. Make it too edgy and you'll risk disenfranchising
what can often be a rather conservative customer base. Make it too conservative
and you may fail to attract enough new customers or generate enough interest to
make the endeavor worthwhile.
Whether Jaguar succeeded in walking that thin line with the new XF is a matter of personal taste, blending as it does elements from the smaller XE and the outgoing XF it replaces. But in launching the new model, Jaguar didn't just pull of a figurative high-wire act – it did quite a literal one.
To drum up support for its newest debut, Jaguar undertook the stunt depicted in the video above, stringing a pair of carbon-fiber cables some 60 feet above the River Thames in London. With some guide wires and counterbalance weights to keep it all in check, and a motion-picture stunt crew orchestrating it all, the new XF drove over 780 feet from one bank of the river to the other, setting a new world record in the process.
Instead of thinking too hard about the whys (seriously, though... why?) and hows, we suggest you just watch the video above.
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Whether Jaguar succeeded in walking that thin line with the new XF is a matter of personal taste, blending as it does elements from the smaller XE and the outgoing XF it replaces. But in launching the new model, Jaguar didn't just pull of a figurative high-wire act – it did quite a literal one.
To drum up support for its newest debut, Jaguar undertook the stunt depicted in the video above, stringing a pair of carbon-fiber cables some 60 feet above the River Thames in London. With some guide wires and counterbalance weights to keep it all in check, and a motion-picture stunt crew orchestrating it all, the new XF drove over 780 feet from one bank of the river to the other, setting a new world record in the process.
Instead of thinking too hard about the whys (seriously, though... why?) and hows, we suggest you just watch the video above.
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source: Autoblog
by Noah Joseph
News source: Jaguar via YouTube
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