Autocar June 29, 2022

AT LAST! THE wall of silence around the new era at Jaguar has been broken and the first details of its 2025 reinvention have emerged (p6). The firm will show a concept car towards the end of 2024 to preview what we can expect, before the 2025 arrival of the first of three production cars, which could cost as much as £200,000. We’ve been vocal in our frustration about the silence at Jaguar, and the nervousness and unease it has created. The brand essentially made all its existing models redundant early last year when it announced its far-off plan to effectively rip the company up and start again in four years’ time. The announcement created a huge vacuum for the brand and its customers and dealers, with no public reassurance since for…

AT LAST! THE wall of silence around the new era at Jaguar has been broken and the first details of its 2025 reinvention have emerged (p6). The firm will show a concept car towards the end of 2024 to preview what we can expect, before the 2025 arrival of the first of three production cars, which could cost as much as £200,000. We’ve been vocal in our frustration about the silence at Jaguar, and the nervousness and unease it has created. The brand essentially made all its existing models redundant early last year when it announced its far-off plan to effectively rip the company up and start again in four years’ time. The announcement created a huge vacuum for the brand and its customers and dealers, with no public reassurance…

“The new models will be based on a single platform, will utilise closely related mechanical packages and could be made in Solihull” Jaguar is planning a trio of “jaw-dropping” electric sports crossovers to burst through the £100,000 barrier and take the brand into Bentley territory from 2025. The new two-tier, three-model line-up promises to dramatically recast Jaguar as a 50,000-60,000-per-year manufacturer of exclusive, aluminium-rich electric cars. These will be based on a single platform, named Panthera, will utilise closely related mechanical packages and could be made in Solihull. When he became Jaguar Land Rover CEO two years ago, Thierry Bolloré made no secret of his plan to mirror the Range Rover ethos – and success – in a newly configured Jaguar line-up. Within months, the Jaguar design team had been heavily reshaped under Gerry…

The appeal of putting the all-new Jaguar EV line-up on the same commercial path as the Range Rover can be summed up with one killer figure: in 2019, the last Covid-free year, global sales of the Range Rover easily topped 50,000. The Range Rover started life in 1970 as an exceptionally desirable vehicle, and over 50 years its various creators have never let the mantle slip. In all five versions, you see the same character and experience the same desire. Jaguar lacks this advantage. Of course, there are remarkable hotspots, stretching broadly from the 1948 XK120 to the XJ6 20 years later. But there have been clunkers, too, and in recent years decisions from the top forced Jaguars down a me-too route of saloons and SUVs, usually excellent but not quite appealing…

“The new models will be based on a single platform, will utilise closely related mechanical packages and could be made in Solihull” Jaguar is planning a trio of “jaw-dropping” electric sports crossovers to burst through the £100,000 barrier and take the brand into Bentley territory from 2025. The new two-tier, three-model line-up promises to dramatically recast Jaguar as a 50,000-60,000-per-year manufacturer of exclusive, aluminium-rich electric cars. These will be based on a single platform, named Panthera, will utilise closely related mechanical packages and could be made in Solihull. When he became Jaguar Land Rover CEO two years ago, Thierry Bolloré made no secret of his plan to mirror the Range Rover ethos – and success – in a newly configured Jaguar line-up. Within months, the Jaguar design team had been…

The appeal of putting the all-new Jaguar EV line-up on the same commercial path as the Range Rover can be summed up with one killer figure: in 2019, the last Covid-free year, global sales of the Range Rover easily topped 50,000. The Range Rover started life in 1970 as an exceptionally desirable vehicle, and over 50 years its various creators have never let the mantle slip. In all five versions, you see the same character and experience the same desire. Jaguar lacks this advantage. Of course, there are remarkable hotspots, stretching broadly from the 1948 XK120 to the XJ6 20 years later. But there have been clunkers, too, and in recent years decisions from the top forced Jaguars down a me-too route of saloons and SUVs, usually excellent but not…