This vehicle, the Pink Panther, is falling flat on its face.
Jaguar’s alleged efforts to woo Generation Z with a Barbie-pink electric vehicle backfired after Zoomers branded the luxury UK automaker’s creation “cheap” and compared it to a “pink Batmobile.”
Photos of the new Jaguar Type 00 concept, called Design Vision Concept, were leaked online ahead of its official release at Miami Art Week this week. The Telegraph has reported.
According to the photos, the $126,519.50 vehicle has a huge bonnet, slatted rectangular grille and no rear window, and while the leaping Jaguar logo is gone from both ends, there’s a divisive, new round logo on the back seat, Daily Mail reported.
However, the most notable feature of the hot-mobile was its “Miami pink” exterior, which created a boxier version of the Corvette from the “Barbie” movie. It also comes in metallic blue color.
Jaguar Land Rover chief creative officer Gerry McGovern hailed the stunning concept car as “a taste of things to come” at the Miami conference.
The EV-only Hot Wheels appears to be the latest part of Jaguar’s seemingly “woke” rebranding Campaign To win over Gen Z, which was promoted in a video ad Bisexual models in flamboyant costumesIncluding a man wearing a costume and, most notably, no car anywhere in sight.
Jaguar managing director Rawdon Glover in particular labeled the company’s new direction a “complete reset”, aimed at “inspiring a new generation”.
Ironically, many of their so-called intended young customers were quick to put the Type 00 models into the metaphorical car compactor.
“If you think the Jaguar rebrand is in dire straits, you need to see their new car,” scoffed a critic at,
TikToker Fionnuala compared the car to the Red Digger Muck from the children’s show “Bob the Builder.”
“Now you’re telling me Jaguar had all that faff (British slang for fuss), all that rebrand, all that bullshit for a car that looks like a muck, and honestly I’m like would like to do [have] Nonsense,” He announced.
Other disaffected Zoomers criticized the rebranding efforts in general.
“What exactly is the jaguar thinking?” Said Gearhead Luke Malpass in a TikTok clip. “They have gone on to become a staple of British engineering and create some of the finest cars ever seen on the road.”
“Go wake up, you know the rest,” Podcaster Jay Anderson wrote onWhereas Journalist Jordan Schechtel wrote, “Go, break down completely. This is a mockery of the Jaguar brand.”
Some critics found the “copy nothing” slogan ironic, given that the new EV vehicle outsells many storied vehicle brands.
“Don’t copy anything except Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and then put a Studebaker radiator on the back of the car,” Canopy Capital Group CEO Eric Golden sneered at Ax.
“Not copying anything? It’s a pink Batmobile,” Ridiculed by another negative person Marking the vehicle’s departure from the brand’s iconic macho mobiles of yesteryear.
Some accused Jaguar of risking alienating their consumer base by attempting to appeal to people who would never buy their product.
“Someone in the Jaguar marketing team has given too much importance to the size of the ‘vegan barista who wants to reach the drum circle in a luxury sports car market’, I’m afraid” Lulu Cheng Meserve, board member of tech company Shopify, at X.
“I have a feeling @jaguar Maybe it’s about to turn out that there are a smaller number of affluent, non-binary, gay people of color than their echo chamber assured them,” Took a dig at Laurence Fox, founder of the right-wing British Reclaim Party and foe of “political correctness”.
The criticisms extended beyond allegations that the model was ugly In pink colour.
“He @jaguar The concept car is a hideous monstrosity,” Caught one. “The switch to electric offered huge potential for a radical redesign to meet their unimaginative advertising campaign, but they had so little imagination that they gave it a huge view-restricting nose to house a non-existent engine. Gave it.”
Despite online savings, some vehicle lovers have praised Type 00s with “Top Gear” Host Rory Reid is commenting: “After being massively underwhelmed by the XE, Would like to see it twice’ is the world.
Reed declared, “I’ll even put it in pink for the haters.”
McGovern also defended the creation, saying: “It’s not always easy to attract attention in today’s world, and I think all of you and those following from around the world learned a thing or two about the new Jaguar brand Will happen.
He added, “And we’re glad to have your attention.” “Whenever British creativity is at its best, controversy always surrounds it.”
McGovern then compared the company’s transformation to that of visionaries such as singer David Bowie and designer Vivienne Westwood, who “challenged tradition and had no desire to copy the norm.”