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The Intercooler

An evening with Ian Callum, Britain's greatest living car designer #220

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel interview Ian Callum in front of a live audience at Ian's design and engineering consultancy, CALLUM, in association with Autoglym. Ian has been a car designer since the late 1970s and has created many of the most beautiful Aston Martins and Jaguars of the modern era, including the Aston DB7, Vanquish, DB9 and V8 Vantage, and the Jaguar F-Type, I-Pace and many more. Ian talks about his latest venture, CALLUM, and the secret projects he and his colleagues are working on, plus his distinguished career in car design and what it takes to be a great car designer.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.

0:06.7

Hello everybody.

0:08.0

Before we welcome Ian out, I just want to rattle off a few thank yous.

0:13.0

First of all to Autoglim for sponsoring this evening.

0:17.0

None of us would be here without Autoglyth.

0:19.0

So thank you to them.

0:21.0

Autoglim is the only car care stuff I have at home. I think that's true for you as well Andrew.

0:26.0

Yeah and I did before these guys sponsored us.

0:28.0

Exactly. We're not being paid to say that, that is true.

0:31.0

It really is true. So thank you to them. To everybody at Callum for being so

0:35.4

accommodating, thank you. It's a great facility. Hopefully you've all enjoyed

0:39.8

having a look around. So thanks to everybody for making it possible. To all of you, thank you so

0:46.6

much for continuing to support us at the Intercola for turning out tonight, for bringing your

0:50.8

cars out. It's always brilliant to see what you lot turn up in.

0:54.6

For not watching the football, thank you for that. Yeah. I counted six alpines.

1:00.8

That's extraordinary. Plenty of... You have a lot to ask for don't you I do I do

1:05.2

thanks everybody plenty of Ian's own cars as well lots of F types which is very fitting

1:11.3

well that brings us on to Ian, doesn't it?

1:13.7

Britain's greatest living car designer?

1:15.1

I think so.

1:16.1

Yeah, I mean, in his, you know, he started in the, I think in the 1970s,

1:21.5

I think in the 1970s, I think in the 1970s,

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