{"id":208260,"date":"2019-06-20T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/revealing-xe-art\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:43","slug":"revealing-xe-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/06\/20\/revealing-xe-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealing the XE with art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve drawn everything from hyper-real clothing and food but this is the first time I\u2019ve drawn a car. The new Jaguar XE has these pure lines and perfectly judged proportions which were really enjoyable to recreate. They really bring this car to life, even when it is just static on a piece of paper.\u201d Howard Lee, Artist<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134079\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/XE-headlight-photograph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"801\" \/><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Watch Howard Lee paint the Jaguar XE <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IxwMN71hOS4\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The front and rear bumpers have received larger air intakes while the front of the vehicle features a redesigned grille and slim in shape, all-LED lights. On the inside, Jaguar incorporated the Touch Pro Duo infotainment system and a 12.3-inch digital display in place of a traditional instrument panel.\u00a0 The XE features head-up-display, wireless charging and cabin air ionisation for the driver and occupants.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134080\" src=\"https:\/\/alexnews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/XE-interior-photograph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"797\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also found on the interior is a ClearSight rear-view mirror which gives the driver an unobstructed view of what is behind the vehicle. The Jaguar XE is expected to be available in the second half of 2019 with pricing to be announced closer to the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8a599c28e1d62afee7ffe2431f12bb75'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaguar commissioned hyper-realistic paintings of the new XE sedan with which it revealed the new vehicle to the world. It took British artist, Howard Lee, 140 hours to paint the three paintings in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":208261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}