Shadowing Practice: New Jaguar Type 01: My HONEST take… - Learn English Speaking with Video

Just over there is a new Jaguar Type 0 one.

I haven't seen it before.

Let's check it out.

What?

Oh, my God.

I mean, what a color for start.

This is definitely a thing.

They've gone all out on this.

Whoa.

It is huge.

Look how huge it is.

It's so long.

It's very much like the concept, but obviously it's four -door.

Let's have a look inside.

So they're hoping to sell this for like £120 ,000. And it's got like

that luxury vibe on the inside you're going to be a brave person to buy this in red

but you know what if i was getting one i would

so like it in red this is a statement car massive

wheels oh my god look then there's the back come look

at the back this is wild this is actually a production car i can't believe it

oh there's no rear window why they've done that is

that gonna work there's a silver one here does it look

better in silver it's definitely got a different vibe in silver it's quite a manly car this.

I'm not saying that women won't buy it, but it's a car with balls.

It's definitely got balls, big hairy balls.

Wow.

Do you know the interesting thing about this car?

So normally when manufacturers are designing cars, the engineers will say, well, we've got this platform, you're going to build on this platform.

And then the designers work around it.

With this, the designer said, this is what the car looks like.

Now engineers, go make it work.

And that's what happens when the designers get to lead a project.

It's a statement, Carl.

There is no two ways about it.

Whether you hate it or love it, it makes a statement.

Now, I need to go find out about it so I can tell you more detail rather than just me going, I'll be back soon.

The Jaguar Type 0 1 has been made on an all -new platform.

That means they couldn't save cash by using bits from the Jaguar Land Rover parts bin, and they couldn't partner with another OEM either,

a bit like what BMW and Toyota did to develop the Z4 and the Supra.

That makes the Type 0 1 a huge financial risk, but it might just pay off because this car looks totally unique.

Well, so long as you haven't seen a Rolls -Royce Spectre.

Looking at the front of this car, you might think, oh my gosh, that is not very aerodynamic, is it?

But actually it is.

The designers were able to keep the look of their car

and still deliver a car with a drag coefficient of just 0 .23 cd, which is pretty much identical to the new AMG GT four -door.

You'll notice it's got these four lights there.

One, two, three, four, and that's like a signature look for the car.

You've got the lines going across the grille, which obviously isn't a grille because it's an EV.

In the centre of it, of course, is Jaguar's new written logo, where it goes capital, small, capital, small, small, small.

It's odd, but it looks kind of cool.

Now here we have some active air vents.

These vents here, they cool the powertrain, so the battery when it's charging or when you put your foot down, it needs cooling down.

Then there's these vents here which open when you need the brakes cooling.

So it's all functional, yet it keeps closed for maximum efficiency when you're cruising.

Then there's the bonnet.

When you look at the bonnet, it is massive, and it's a big slab of bonnet.

There's no creases or anything in the top of it, just this line across the front, and that gives this car that mad look that it just has when you...

It blows your mind.

Anyway, the sort of indentations here are similar to on a Jaguar XJS.

Look, see what I mean?

If I own this car, I would be a bit concerned about cleaning that.

They might have to sell a special brush to get in there.

What is going on under this bonnet?

You can imagine that there'd be like a big V12, but no, it's electric.

You've got one electric motor at the front and two at the rear, but more on that in a bit.

One of the most dramatic things about this car is the length.

So it's 1, 2, 3, 4.

It's 5 .2 meters long.

That's as long as a long wheelbase XJ.

This is a GT car.

We'll see how much space there is on the inside in a moment.

You've got 23 -inch alloy wheels.

That's a standard.

You can actually get 21s optionally if you want them, if you need a little bit more sidewall on your tyre, but a standard 23 inches.

Now, this is interesting.

The roofline is 1 .4 metres at its highest point, which is pretty low.

In fact, if you were to stack another one of these wheels on top of itself, it would be above the roofline.

There's another dimension which Jaguar likes to talk about.

It's called the luxury gap, and it's basically the car equivalent of a thigh gap the

bigger the better it's a distance between where your feet would be

if you're in the driver's seat and the center of the wheel

and it gives this like long proportion there

which just makes it look expensive obviously we've got poppy outie door handles there

and we've got quite a narrow glass area which tapers away

if you look at the strong shoulder line here

and then this sort of ledge over the rear haunches it's perfect for leaning on and going, look at my Jaguar.

But how does my Jaguar compare to its competitors?

Well, only the gigantic Rolls -Royce Spectre and Cadillac Celestique are longer than this Type 0 -1.

But as I like to tell the messes, size isn't everything, because this new Jaguar has something that none of these other premium EVs can match, a very weird backside.

The rear for me is the craziest bit of this car.

I've not seen a road car that's anything like this, with the lights that just go right across the back.

I mean, other cars do have that, but not in the same way with all these lines.

Once again, it can be hard to clean.

I suppose you've got people cleaning your car for you haven't

you that's their problem i think not having a rear window

will pose a bit of a problem i've driven a whole star

that has a similar setup it means

that you have to have this camera here

which is obviously going to be the feed for a screen

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which will give you your rear view

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but i would rather have just a glass area there we'll probably find out why they've done

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that when we get inside it now this is a spoiler

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so it pops up when you're going quicker

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and it can provide up to 75 kilos of downforce

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and we've already talked about drag and efficiency and airflow

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but there's something really interesting about this car

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if you get the front right when you're designing it

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that is the thing that matters most to the aerodynamics

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but also what happens at the rear is important as well

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because you want a bluff finish for the air to just

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fly off in fact the way the air exits the back of the car creates a positive pressure

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so you get four kilograms not lot, four kilograms of pressure pushing the car forwards, which helps counteract the drag from the rest of the car.

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Not many other cars have that.

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Reducing drag helps boost top speed, and more importantly, it improves the car's range.

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And that brings me on to the battery, because the Type 0 1 has a colossal 118 kilowatt hours of usable capacity.

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That's bigger than all its key competitors and 40 % larger than the one in the old Jaguar I -Pace.

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This means the Type 0 1's claimed range is up to 450 miles

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and Jag says it will manage 320 miles at motorway speeds.

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It also runs off an 850 volt electrical system

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so you can charge at up to 350 kilowatts on a DC charger

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and that'll add 200 miles of range in just 13 minutes.

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But that's not all, around 170 cells are located under the floor

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and back seats but Jaguar fitted 32 more ahead of the bulkhead, a bit like where an engine would normally go.

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This gives the car the perfect 50 -50 weight distribution.

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Also those 32 cells add an extra 150 horsepower and 70 miles of range.

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However, this battery layout does also affect what the car is like to sit in.

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So the inside of this car definitely matches the exterior because it just feels futuristic.

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You also got those lines here on the dash which match with those on the bonnet and oh my gosh, the view of the bonnet from here.

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The end of the car is so far away from you.

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I'm sat in the middle of it here in the front seats.

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You definitely have this this sort of very sporty feeling to

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it the seats are actually mounted in a gap in the batteries

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which are below you in the floor

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and it allows the seat to be lower

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but your feet are higher up it's quite unusual actually the

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steering wheel super modern we've got some touch controls on it

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single panel not the biggest fan of those they've gone for a totally minimalist interior with everything through screens

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and touch sensitive buttons apart from for the windows

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and stuff visually it works whether it works in reality

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when you're driving it we'll find out you've got your gear selector here

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and then your lights and windscreen wipers

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that reminds me of Audi's new system I can't actually run

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through the menus on the infotainment system they're not operational on this car

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but you have your climate controls through here through the central panel

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but everything else is through this digital driver's display

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which is touch sensitive

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which is quite unusual storage wise I mean yeah you have

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there's a glove box how do you open it I don't

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know I've seen one open on another car you've got this central spine here

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which makes the car feel very sporty you sit quite a distance from the front passenger

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because the car's

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so wide i mean it's over 2 .2 meters wide including

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mirrors the storage under here what can i open it yeah there look you got cup holders

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and you got more storage in here this is obviously a pre -production car

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and we'll look in the back in a moment you've got decent sized door bins the materials are interesting

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so obviously you can get leather if you want

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but this is a man -made material fake leather

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and then you've got like cloth here it works it's nice in the headrest you've got speakers in fact

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that is a sang bar so that's where most of the speakers for the car are

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because they're not in the doors they want to have the speakers higher up

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so you hear them better this is innovative this guy really

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is there's more storage down here you've got your wireless charging usb ports what is a bit concerning

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if you're tall i'm not sure you might struggle obviously every

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car gets a glass roof it doesn't have a blind in

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it you have like special shading built into it press a button

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and it like blanks out I thought this car would have a heads -up display

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but it doesn't and unfortunately it's not on I can't show you

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that is actually the rear view mirror

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and the idea is there's your door mirrors which thankfully they're not digital

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but you can scan across there then scan across there that's the idea

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and it's right in your eyeline

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and an advantage of not having a rear view mirror hanging down there is

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that if you had one you wouldn't be able to see it in the center of the windscreen

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so sort of getting why they haven't given it a back window

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that they could have done speaking of which should we jump in the back

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and see what that's like i mean this car is long

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surely it's really spacious back there okay considering this car is

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so long it doesn't got the biggest back doors

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but then apparently there'll be another car on this platform

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which will be larger and more practical

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but for a driver focused car it's all right like knee

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room's all right foot space is okay your knees are still

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quite high you don't actually have batteries is underneath the footwell

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here they're underneath the seat we could have been like that

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but it's not so that's quite a good design obviously the spine runs to the middle

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so it's a strict two seater here in the back and then what's what's under here let's find out

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little infotainment screen there more cup holders

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and then what we've got here some of this one just more storage headroom in the back I think

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if you're really tall you might struggle

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but the luxury vibe just it's the same in the back

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as in the front like oh look we've got this brass

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effect here i think those might be speakers the general feel is nice the back windows are quite small though

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and what surprises me is that in the front you've got acoustic glass

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but here you haven't they don't want to have done

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that hmm no tesa with its model 3 they have acoustic glass even on the back

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but generally it's pretty comfy i mean it could be more

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practical it could be considering the length of the car

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but that's not what they're aiming for here they're aiming for a halo product

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which is more about the driver having fun

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and occasionally they need to take someone in the back they can do

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but if it's a gt car you've got to have adequate space for luggage i mean

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that is a prerequisite so let's check out the boot if i press on this button i can open the boot

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all right okay so um it's a hatchback but

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it's not the most practical this boot is quite shallow apparently there's 450 liters of space back here

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because underneath here look there's some extra storage can't really show

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you in there this is a laptop powering things this is a um pre -production car obviously

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but it does have that expensive car vibe look there's the brass element

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that goes all the way from the front way back here is

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that gonna be enough space i don't know there's only one way to find out

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and that's for jagger to lend it me

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and for me to go on a big road trip in it

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so i think we need to arrange that but why is the boot

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so shallow well it's down to the motors as well as

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a front axle motor there are two at the rear just

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like in a tesla model s plaid however this new jag

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is even more powerful than the tesla combined you get 1030 horsepower

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and 1365 newton meters of torque

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and it'll do 0 to 60 miles an hour in 3 .2 seconds quick

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but not tesla model s plan quick but there's a reason why first

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and foremost the type zero one is a gt car

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so mid -range punch is just as important as a quick launch

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and it'll also accelerate from 60 to around 110 miles per hour in four seconds flat and that bit is actually bonkers,

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especially when you consider this thing weighs 2 .7 tonnes.

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And here's how the Jag's weight compares to its key competitors.

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It's no surprise then that Jaguars fitted the Type -01 with two -stage air suspension and adaptive dampers, because it's supposed to be a driver's car after all, albeit a quite heavy one.

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What's also interesting is the distance between this part of the wing and the top of the bonnet.

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It's only 133 millimetres.

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That's not a lot.

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That means there's not much travel for the suspension

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so Jaguar had this option what they could do is actually raise the bonnet up by about

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that much but then the car won't look so cool

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or they just do things traditionally and just have less suspension travel

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but then the ride would be too harsh so they actually came up with a really clever solution.

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When a wheel moves up and the suspension compresses all the uprights arms

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and linkages need somewhere to go but the metal castings

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that attach them to the car can sort of get in the way

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so Jaguar designed a special elliptical hole in the chassis casting that makes extra room for all the moving unsprung parts.

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This meant they could keep a super low bonnet without sacrificing wheel travel, which should improve the ride comfort.

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In fact, the Type 01 has 10 centimetres less space under the bonnet than an F -Type, but somehow or other two centimetres more suspension travel, that is clever.

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Another interesting feature is this whole section is just one panel, which is crazy when you consider at the surface forming of it.

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Now, normally when engineers are making a body panel of a car, it takes about four weeks to design it, then press it and get it all right.

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This took 22 weeks.

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What actually happened was the designers designed it, showed it to the engineers.

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The engineers went, oh, wait a minute, that's impossible.

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And the designer said, we don't care.

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We're in charge.

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Go make it happen.

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And they made it happen.

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And that's why they call it the impossible panel.

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Although obviously it's not totally impossible.

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And this isn't the first time something like this has happened in Jaguar's history.

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Flashback to 1931, where William Lyons, who co -founded the company, signed off on the radical new SS1 coupe.

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However, his engineers were worried that no one would actually fit inside, but they didn't dare say anything to the big boss.

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That was until Lyons got appendicitis and he disappeared for a few months off sick.

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Immediately, they jacked up the roof to make the car more practical, but screwed with the proportions and created this monstrosity.

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When he returned from his sickbed, Lyons was so angry that he ordered the team to go back to the original design

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which they did and doesn't it look far better as a result

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but this whole process wasn't easy nor cheap

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and it's exactly what jaguar wanted to avoid with the new type zero one design first then engineering afterwards

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so then what's my final verdict on the new Jaguar Type Zero One.

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Well, it's definitely got a wow factor, but will it be a sales success and be enough to save Jaguar?

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Well, I need a bit of time to think about that one.

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So, what do I think about it?

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Well, so when I started as a motoring journalist, the thing that gave me the biggest buzz

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when I thought I've made it as a motoring journalist wasn't when I first drove a Porsche, a Ferrari, a BMW or anything like that.

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It was when I first got behind the wheel of a Jaguar.

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That's because I'm from the Midlands

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when i was growing up the coolest cars in the world were jaguars

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and they were built near where i lived

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so i've got a soft spot for jags i want the

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company to succeed will this car do it for them well

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you know what i think this it's got this wow factor

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when you first see it i think initial sales will be strong

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but it could end up a little bit like the cyber truck where it's kind of like a novelty car

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and i know they've got another car in the pipeline based

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on the same platform obviously it's gonna be some form of suv

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and they need that one to come through very soon because people are more likely to buy an SUV than this big,

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strange, long coupe -ish mad thing that the Type 0 1 is.

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I think the Type 0 1 could bridge the gap and save the company.

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But it will be the next car that comes through that really allows it to flourish.

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And it could be like it was in the 60s and 70s.

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You had the E -Type, the sporty version, and then you had the XJ for the more luxurious family -orientated car.

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It's going to be interesting to see what happens.

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Now that is my opinion, but what do you think?

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Will the Type 0 1 save Jaguar?

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I want you to vote by replying to our pinned comment.

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Yes, it will save them, or no, it won't.

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In the meantime, if you want to see the car that I think the Type 0 1 is most like, click on that video window there to watch my review of the Rolls -Royce Spectre.

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Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 289 sentences and 3532 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:48. The speaker talks fast, about 210 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
jaguar noun	/ˈd͡ʒæɡ.wɑɹ/	A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.
designer noun	/dɪˈzaɪnɚ/	A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
suspension noun	/səˈspɛnʃən/	The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
practical adjective	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
mirror noun	/ˈmiɹɚ/	A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
dragon noun	/ˈdɹæɡən/	In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a…
boot noun	/but/	A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
vibe noun	/vaɪb/	An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.
luxury noun	/ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/	Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
meter noun	/ˈmitəɹ/	A device that measures things.
underneath adverb	/ˌʌndɚˈniθ/	Below; in a place beneath.
competitor noun	/kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/	A person or organization against whom one is competing.
vent noun	/vɛnt/	An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
tesla noun	/ˈtɛslə/	In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.
sensitive adjective	/ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/	Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
come through verb		To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come up with verb		To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
cool down verb	/kuːl ˈdaʊn/	To become cooler; to be reduced in temperature.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
get behind verb		To come to believe or support something.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 95 contractions and reduced forms, such as you've, you're, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, leather /ˈlɛðɚ/, cloth /klɒθ/, thigh /θaɪ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: suspension /səˈspɛnʃən/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, electrical /ɪˈlɛktɹɪkəl/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like jaguar, designer, suspension.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if i was getting one i would · If I own this car, I would be · if you had one you wouldn't be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't seen · They've gone · they've done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	has been made · are located · are actually mounted
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	point, which is · panel, which is

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

Grammar in this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?