This One's For Mo Pie
Ian Callum, the Scottish engineer who designed the latest Jaguar XK:
(Oh, how can you not love her?
"...a Jaguar should be sensuous and voluptuous, very sculptured and when I was thinking about it Kate Winslet came to mind.
"Kate Winslet is my ideal woman. She is naturally a very shapely woman, very British with an underlying integrity and ability. Like a car, she has got substance, she is not just a pretty face.
"So I designed the new XK body with her in mind. The interesting thing is that so many woman find sensual cars more appealing as well.”
(Oh, how can you not love her?
"Not that she is overimpressed with Jaguar’s efforts. Winslet complained that she would have liked to be involved in the design. “The headlights are too small. They will have to go. And it needs a bar under the dashboard with pink and blue neon lights, umbrellas and pineapples.
“And wings,” the mother of two added, warming to her role as car designer, “like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And inflatables, so it can go in water. I absolutely think I shuld get a free car.”)
posted by anne at 3:02 PM
5 Comments:
LOVE. HER.
Smiling very widely. I like the idea of the wings...
She rules. Did anyone see her guest appearance in Extras? (short lived Ricky Gervais sitcom on HBO? Anyone? Bueller?) Can she do wrong? I think maybe not.
Put your Willie Wonka between my Oompa Loompas!
Extras hasn't been short-lived; it just has a short series length because it's British. The second series has just been shown here. Good stuff.
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