The greatest hits of Ian Callum - Top Gear
This week, Jaguar’s design director Ian Callum received the ‘Minerva Medal’. Awarded by the Chartered Society of Designers, it’s their highest accolade, and only given to recognise lifetime achievement. Callum is the first car designer to pick up the prize since supercar scribbler Giorgetto Giugiaro, who received the award in 1981. And so in celebration of the Scottish designer’s rich body of work, we’ve gathered together our favourite Callum... Callum’s body of work is comprehensive, and his greatest hits plentiful enough for nearly everything he’s designed to be someone’s favourite. Well, it’s made to look a complete pussycat by the R390. Callum helped pen Nissan’s top-class Le Mans competitor, which spawned a pair of road-going hypercars before that was even a genre. With its twin-turbo 3. 5-litre V8 engine serving up around 640bhp, it can complete 0-100mph in 6. 5sec on its journey to a top speed beyond 220mph, making this much faster than even the Nismo version of the GT-R. Another super looking car from competition, Ford’s bonkers Group B rally entrant was homologated by 200 road-going RS200s. the rally car produced up to 450bhp, while the showroom iteration was a little tamed, with 250bhp. Source: www.topgear.com
