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The year is 2030. The Le Mans 24 Hour race is on the back foot with spectators, after an ill-fated period of autonomous, remote-controlled racecars filling its grids. As manned cars return to La Sarthe, and the race"s 107th anniversary, Jaguar unveils its contender, the SS-107.This is it. And that is its backstory, creatively concocted by its designer, Serdar Soyal. If you"d not guessed, this isn"t real, we"re not in 2030, and it"s got nothing to do with Jaguar. But if this is how a Jag endurance racer were to look in a decade or so"s time, you"d be happy, right?There"s much technology to digest, even if it has all been drawn in Photoshop as opposed to actually manufactured. The seats are made of a special gel that keeps the driver"s temperature spot on, while the windscreen is made of hydrophilic, self-cleaning glass. No word on if there"s a solution for drivers needing a wee during a night-time double stint, mind.
Date written: 5 May 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7672
The year is 2030. The Le Mans 24 Hour race is on the back foot with spectators, after an ill-fated period of autonomous, remote-controlled racecars filling its grids. As manned cars return to La Sarthe, and the race"s 107th anniversary, Jaguar unveils its contender, the SS-107.This is it. And that is its backstory, creatively concocted by its designer, Serdar Soyal. If you"d not guessed, this isn"t real, we"re not in 2030, and it"s got nothing to do with Jaguar. But if this is how a Jag endurance racer were to look in a decade or so"s time, you"d be happy, right?There"s much technology to digest, even if it has all been drawn in Photoshop as opposed to actually manufactured. The seats are made of a special gel that keeps the driver"s temperature spot on, while the windscreen is made of hydrophilic, self-cleaning glass. No word on if there"s a solution for drivers needing a wee during a night-time double stint, mind.
Date written: 5 May 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7672
