Only in New York.Perhaps the folks at Jaguar were sending an unintentional message at the New York International Auto Show The New York International Auto Show is an annual auto show held in late March or early April. It is usually held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. It usually opens on or just before Easter weekend and closes on the first Sunday after Easter. to the ever-expanding American, as they unveiled, for the first time, the long wheelbase wheel·base n. The distance from the center of the front wheel to that of the rear wheel in a motor vehicle, usually expressed in inches. wheelbase Noun versions of the XJ sedan. The 2005 XJ Long Wheelbase (LWB LWB Long Wheel Base LWB Love Without Boundaries (Edmond, OK) LWB Greenbrier, WV, USA - Greenbrier Valley Airport (Airport Code) LWB Leary and Wilson Builders LLC (Essex Junction, VT) ) offers a 124.4-in wheelbase--5-in. longer than the '04 standard wheelbase--and an overall length of 205.3 in. (also 5 in. longer), which makes this the longest Jag ever built. The XJ LWB is said to be 2.2-in. longer than the long version of the Mercedes S-Class and 1.8-in. longer than the longest BMW 7 Series The BMW 7 Series is a line of full-size luxury vehicles produced by the German automaker BMW. It replaced the "New Six" models in 1977. It is BMW's flagship car and is only available as a sedan. . The length was added to the structure behind the B-pillar so as to provide more rear passenger knee room. Because this is an aluminum-intensive structure, the additional length didn't come at too great a weight penalty: just 53 lb. And the changes require just 17 different stampings (e.g., larger body sides; new doors; longer roof), so the standard and long versions are made on the same line at the Browns Lane Plant Browns Lane in Coventry, England was the home of Jaguar Cars from 1951 until 2005. It was the historic site of all Jaguar production over this period, as well as the corporate headquarters and the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust collection of cars. in Coventry. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jag's designers from its Advanced Design Center took the spaciousness afforded them by the XJ LWB and created a concept car that was revealed at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , the Concept Eight. As Ian Callum, director of Design, Jaguar Cars, noted, "We have a car with more space in it than any Jaguar ever built, so we thought we'd have a bit of fun and conceptualize something that was about space and luxury and pampering." (The XJ LWB itself isn't?) The biggest exterior change is the replacement of the aluminum roof with one made with glass. And to make this seem like a nightclub on wheels, the darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. glass is edged with red LED lighting. Red lighting spills into the interior, as well: "That warm red glow will be visible from the roof as well as from the center console and under the front seats. This sort of effect is something I would love to use on production cars in the future," said Callum, who added, "The way people have employed these lighting techniques in other modern venues--uplighting, diffused lighting, and so on--that is something we will have in our cars. And why red? Because it is a bit cheeky." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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