While at Jaguar, Callum designed the C-X75 hybrid supercar prototype, but Jaguar Land Rover axed the project in 2012 as part of a cash-saving drive.The C-X75 was powered by a 1.6-liter turbo gasoline unit feeding multiple electric motors. Jaguar had formed a partnership with the Williams Formula 1 team to develop the carbon fiber chassis, hybrid technology and aerodynamics.
Bak Motors will use a British Formula 1 manufacturer to help build the Kincsem supercar, a Swiss website reported in December, leading to speculation that the company will contract Williams to help bring the car to market.
The company would not comment on who will it work with to help build the car.
Media reports in the UK have billed the Kincsem as the “son of C-X75” due to Callum’s involvement with the Jaguar model and the possibility of Williams reprising its former role. The brand however downplayed connections to the Jaguar.
“This bears no relation to any Jaguar project. They share a designer, but it’s not the same profile or powertrain,” a spokesman for Bak told Automotive News Europe.
The Kincsem supercar will sell for 2 million pounds to 3 million pounds ($2.8 million to $3.1 million) the spokesman said, making it two to three times more expensive than the 900,000 pounds Jaguar had envisaged selling the C-X75 for.
Jaguar planned to build 250 examples of the C-X75, with production to be carried out by Williams.
A drawing released by Kinscem shows how the profile of the car could look with prominently curved wheel arches framing the cabin. The profile is broadly similar to that of the C-X75, which had no prominent aero parts such as a rear wing to break up the design.