Former Aston Martin And Jaguar Designer Ian Callum Introduces First car, The Callum Sky

Callum is the brand of the famous car designer Ian Callum. After decades of being active as a car designer, with numerous gems at Aston Martin and Jaguar as a legacy, Ian Callum started his own business in 2019. Given its name, Callum Designs is formally a design studio, but it also designs and makes its own cars. That started with a modified and modernized version of the original Aston Martin Vanquish, itself a Callum design. Now Callum Designs goes a lot further with its own car, the Callum Skye.

That Skye is a completely different type than the Vanquish. No low, fat super GT with V12 here, but a compact electric high-legged car that, with its squat carriage, open wheel arches, and virtually absent overhangs, looks a bit like a ‘beach buggy’. The Skye must therefore be able to handle any terrain and even excel because Callum promises both good driving characteristics on the road and excellent off-road capabilities. The low weight plays a key role in this. The Skye, built around a tubular frame, weighs only 1,150 kg, very little for an EV, and distributes that weight fairly between the front and rear axles. A modest battery pack of 42 kWh provides a range of 273 km. Charging takes place at an unprecedented pace: with an optional fast charger and the right charger, the job should be completed in less than ten minutes. The Callum Skye has four-wheel drive, so we assume two electric motors. Power and torque are not mentioned, but we do know that this machine should be able to go from 0 to 100 in less than 4 seconds.

With a length of 4.05 meters, the Callum Skye is compact, but according to Callum, it feels particularly refined and high-quality. The closed cabin has an interior according to the 2+2 principle, with two full seats and two ’emergency seats’. The occupants have a special view outside because the lower half of the doors are also made of glass. Callum’s new toy is not just a fun finger exercise; the company wants to share concrete specifications of the production version in the spring of 2024.

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