The Brits say they created The Concept Speedboat to complement and accompany the newly introduced XF Sportbrake, and it appears that they've done a fine job of it.
"We recognise that both our existing and future customers enjoy diverse and active lifestyles," says Callum. "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 beautifully built boat, conceived in concert with Seventy Seven Design and Ivan Erdevicki Naval Architecture & Yacht Design Inc., is composed of a fiberglass hull finished with a teak deck. The prominent carbon fiber fin that reminds us of the company's legendary D-Type is particularly nice work. The familiar jungle cat badge leaps off the back deck and the fuel filler caps were inspired by the Series 1 XJ.
Just as the XF Sportbrake goes a long way toward convincing the masses that wagons can be cool, the Concept Speedboat could turn us into boat-loving seafarers. Unfortunately, Jaguar admits it "has no plans to build or commercialise a boat of any kind." And, sadly, the press release seems to indicate that this concept might not even be seaworthy, as it notes that the boat's polished aluminum propeller "imitates how the boat could be powered..." No matter. The only way we were getting on one was as stowaways, anyway.
