Live: Designer Ian Callum on TWR and Jaguar - then and now #299
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Live from Bicester Scramble, Andrew Frankel and Dan Prosser interview legendary designer Ian Callum on his career, his relationship with Tom Walkinshaw, Aston Martin and Jaguar. What does he think of Jaguar's current direction?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Can you hear me? |
| 0:06.0 | Oh, there we go. |
| 0:07.0 | I think so. |
| 0:08.0 | Delighted to be here today at the first Sunday Scramble of 2026 and a rather chilly, |
| 0:12.0 | Bistomotion. |
| 0:13.0 | So shall we bring in our guest, Ian Callum, please. |
| 0:15.0 | A round of applause, please. |
| 0:16.0 | Ian Callum. |
| 0:17.0 | Car designer, extraordinaire. Oh, please. Thank you. Hello, Ian. |
| 0:24.4 | One of Britain's greatest car designers, there can be no question. |
| 0:29.2 | Allegedly. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. The entire 1990s, more or less, |
| 0:35.1 | you're a design director at Tom Wilkinshire Racing. |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah, it was. |
| 0:42.4 | And just before I say anything, it was just great seeing his picture again because it just reminded me what a fantastic person he was |
| 0:48.4 | and what that period was like. |
| 0:51.1 | It was phenomenal. |
| 0:52.6 | But, yeah, I was first aware of Tom while I was living in |
| 0:57.5 | Australia and working for Ford. And the Bathurst was on, very important race down there, |
| 1:03.6 | almost tribal. And they were all putting their bets, I remember, on holding them forward. And I said, |
| 1:08.7 | I'm going to put a bet on Jaguar and they laughed at me and this |
| 1:13.1 | Scotsman in a Jag won it well it wasn't him it was goss I think it won it but um and this was in the |
| 1:18.4 | XJS this was in the XGS native 5 yeah there's a great on this great footage of Tom in an |
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