Jaguar XJ75 Platinum Concept presented at Pebble Beach

At last weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance Concept Car Lawn Jaguar put on display a design project, part of the year celebration of the brand’s 75th anniversary: the XJ75 Platinum Concept.

With this concept car Jaguar’s design team demonstrates for the first time the customisation potential of the new XJ luxury saloon. The XJ75 Platinum Concept emphasizes Jaguar's dramatic interior and exterior styling themes.

“The new Jaguar XJ Platinum Concept celebrates Jaguar's 75th Anniversary, and highlights the uniqueness of the XJ, and more broadly, the increasingly personal nature of luxury cars in today's market,” said Mike O’Driscoll, Managing Director of Jaguar Cars. “The XJ is thoroughly modern, and captures the innovative and daring character that our founder Sir William Lyons built into every Jaguar. And the design team clearly had some fun making their first one-of-a-kind XJ design concept in that spirit.”

The XJ75 Platinum Concept is based on a high-performance 470-hp 2011 Jaguar XJL Supercharged and received new ground-hugging front, rear and side sills. The Jaguar Concept comes with a contrasting black and white livery. With Satin Matte Pearlescent White as base colour, the XJ75 Platinum has exterior chrome elements in either either a dark chrome or gloss black and the bespoke 22-inch wheels are black and use a brushed contrast finish. The contrast continues inside with the gloss pearlescent white air vents, veneers and diamond stitch suede inserts to the seats and headliner.

At the centre console the XJ75 Platinum Concept features a bespoke clock developed and designed in partnership with the Bremont Watch Company.

“From a pure design perspective, the XJ75 Platinum Concept is foremost about emphasising the striking proportion and presence of the new XJ, with a distilled black and white theme, which conjures up the sense of precious platinum,” said Jaguar XJ Chief Designer Giles Taylor. “At the same time, the pure sporting character of XJ is brought to the fore by keeping the car's clean graphic approach and further lowering its stance.