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<\/p>\nWhy are cars dramatic? Somewhere at the world\u2019s beginning cavemen chipped these words into stone: \u201cCar videos need drums. And strings. And brass horns. And anthemic vocals. And repeated reminders that Nothing Will Ever Be The Same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although cavemen at that time didn\u2019t even know what \u201cvideos\u201d or \u201ccars\u201d were, they were wise beyond their years. Their words would guide decades, maybe even centuries of videographers, and in the latest Jaguar creation about their six all-aluminum E-Type 1963 tributes, the principles hold true. Carmakers seem to take themselves just a little too seriously, favoring \u201ctension\u201d and \u201ctheater\u201d over minor items like \u201cplot,\u201d \u201ccharacters\u201d or \u201crationality.\u201d Thus in today\u2019s Zero to Sixty video, we have no idea who this random man is arriving in a Jaguar F-Type R, nor why he needs such a special suit and helmet to drive a 1963 replica safely on a closed course. But we do learn quite a lot about that E-Type.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s one of six E-Types that were never built in 1963. For some unexplained reason, Jaguar meant to build 18 all-aluminum models, but only made it to 12. Did the workers get tired? Was there a shortage of aluminum? Did the Space Race make automobiles seem pointless? Did they take sleepy-time tea? We don\u2019t know. Jaguar Land Rover\u2019s new Special Operations unit did a wonderful job completing the remaining six, however.<\/p>\n
The brushed aluminum body stretches on for ages rounding itself off in gradients that must form the platonic ideal of curves. To paraphrase Joel from Adventureland<\/em>, that curve is a higher truth. The engine sounds great, and the cinematography is fantastic. Even if the whole concept is a little silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why are cars dramatic? Somewhere at the world\u2019s beginning cavemen chipped these words into stone: \u201cCar videos need drums. And strings. And brass horns. And anthemic vocals. And repeated reminders that Nothing Will Ever Be The Same.\u201d Although cavemen at that time didn\u2019t even know what \u201cvideos\u201d or \u201ccars\u201d were, they were wise beyond their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[148,480],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","tag-coupes","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}