{"id":26921,"date":"2022-04-16T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=26921"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:52:56","slug":"british-restorer-launches-restomod-division-with-redesigned-jaguar-xk-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2022\/04\/16\/british-restorer-launches-restomod-division-with-redesigned-jaguar-xk-european\/","title":{"rendered":"British Restorer Launches Restomod Division With Redesigned Jaguar XK European"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Award-winning British restorers Thornley Kelham is launching a new Restomod division with a fresh take on Jaguar\u2019s XK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their new Jaguar XK European doesn\u2019t just update the vehicle with modern developments and creature comforts, but has also been fully redesigned by McLaren P1 and 720S designer Paul Howse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new hand-formed aluminum body is \u201clower, wider, curvier, cleaner,\u201d looking like something Jaguar might have created themselves \u201cwere the XK subject to a kind of in-house skunkworks operation in the \u201850s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea of improving or modifying any iconic design is one that must be approached with great care,\u201d says Howse. \u201cOne has to be very respectful for what was originally designed in a very different time using very different tools. My vision was to meld the latest state of the art Automotive Design techniques with time-honoured craftsmanship \u2013 to create \u2018purposeful beauty\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jaguar XK European is powered by a completely re-engineered 3.8-liter XK engine producing 340hp, considerably more than the 160-200hp of the original, with new suspension and disc brakes, while the walnut dash has been replaced by body-color aluminum and a lowered leather interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process of turning an original XK into the Jaguar XK European takes 5,000 hours, with prices starting at \u00a3550,000 GBP (approximately $718,000 USD) plus a donor car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Award-winning British restorers Thornley Kelham is launching a new Restomod division with a fresh take on Jaguar\u2019s XK. Their new Jaguar XK European doesn\u2019t just update the vehicle with modern developments and creature comforts, but has also been fully redesigned by McLaren P1 and 720S designer Paul Howse. The new hand-formed aluminum body is \u201clower, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-26921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car","tag-jaguar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26921\/revisions\/26928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}