“If you want to build the world’s safest car, you can find that kind of engineering talent in Gothenburg,” says Ingenlath. “But if you want to design and build a low-cost, sporty, exclusive, luxury GT car, the engineering skills [is best found] In the United Kingdom. It is world class for this type of project.
Soft-spoken but authoritative Scotsman Alan adds: “We build a team around the DNA we need in the product. We have F1 people, motorsport experts and many premium niche manufacturers.
He omitted the fact that he himself was the project leader for the development and delivery of the Mercedes-McLaren SLR, while Swift was a long-time employee of Lotus and director of engineering at the blue-blooded Canadian automaker Multimatic. Both share the ambition to infuse the 5 with a “sports car heritage” feel.
What this means will hopefully become clear once we get behind the wheel of the car. For now, from an external perspective, you should assume that this means dynamic cleanliness, transparency, and overall intuitiveness, but without sacrificing usability.
Fascinating simplicity, perhaps. Does something out there already reveal all of this? The entry-level RWD Taycan comes close but not quite as practical; AMG and M cars are weight and complex foam; Tesla products are accurate and very fast, but handling never shines.
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