2005 Jaguar Advanced Lightweight Coupe Concept

Like past concepts, and production vehicles, the ALC was styled under the influence of the "Platonic" Jaguar, the 1960s XJ

The bodywork of the ALC is clean, giving the image that the car's skin has been pulled taut over the bare necessities. (Photo: Jaguar Cars North America)

sedan. As revolutionary and beautiful as the XJ was for Jaguar, its upright snout and four, rounded headlamps, curving roof line and sleek trunk are not featured here. Instead, the concept draws from the original car's proportions and stance - namely, how the car sits on the road. The hunkered-down look of the ALC is directly in tune with Callum's beliefs that a Jaguar should appear powerful and elegant.

Working upwards from its comically oversized 21-inch alloy wheels, the Lightweight Coupe is a vehicle that seems to be styled with heart and soul, like the gorgeous E-Type. But like the E-Type, emotion was not the driving force behind the way it the vehicle looks, rather, minimalism and mathematical calculations

Working upwards from its comically oversized 21-inch alloy wheels, the Lightweight Coupe is a vehicle that seems to be styled with heart and soul, like the gorgeous E-Type. (Photo: Jaguar Cars North America)

dictated the visuals, the same process that Malcolm Sayer used in the original '60s swinger.

While the ALC wasn't styled solely from geometrical shapes to produce the most aerodynamic figure, certain parts of its design, such as the grille used geometry to correctly center it on the horizontal and vertical planes of the vehicle. Like the E, every single line, stemming from the oval grille focal point can be streamlined over its body. Bar the powerful bulge which stretches down the hood of the ALC, the bodywork of the car is clean giving the image that the car's skin has been pulled taut over the bare necessities.