Not content with the sort of buzz “Jaguar’s first-ever SUV” might garner, Jaguar went ahead and debuted the 2017 F-Pace at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show in such a way as to practically ensure fanfare and attention. It lined the F-Pace up, plopped British stunt driver Terry Grant in the driver’s seat, and set the two loose speeding toward a colossal, 62.6-foot-tall 360-degree loop. The suspense! The kitsch! For Queen and Country!
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Not that we wish any harm to befall Terry Grant, but Jaguar probably could have sent its little stunt super viral had the F-Pace SUV failed to complete the full loop-the-loop. That didn’t happen, however, with both crossover and driver making the full rotation and returning to ground level unscathed. Cleverly, the loop formed the zero in a 63-foot-tall “80” signifying Jag’s 80th birthday, and, less cleverly, fireworks exploded from the digits’ circumferences upon the intrepid Grant’s successful looping.
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Jaguar and Grant can hang their hats on the stunt’s securing of the Guinness world record for biggest automotive loop-the-loop, and it certainly makes for a more entertaining segue to production for the F-Pace than a press release. Watch the stunt below, and be sure to take note of Grant’s supreme discomfort as he’s subjected to 6.5 g on the loop.
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