Jaguar reveals new range-topping models for the F-Pace range, with a new diesel F-Pace 300 Sport and petrol F-Pace 400 Sport. Prices from £62,250. Actual Jaguar News is rather thin on the ground as Jaguar sits in self-imposed hibernation as it develops a new range of electric cars due to start arriving in 2025. But […]
Jaguar I-Pace EV batteries getting second life as portable energy storage units
Jaguar has partnered with energy specialist Pramac to develop portable energy storage units using second-life Jaguar I-Pace batteries. It’s no secret that electric car batteries have a shelf life – just like the batteries in your laptop or phone – but even when they reach the end of their useful life they’re full of valuable […]
Jaguar and Land Rover with Pivi Pro follow the new Range Rover with ALEXA built-in
Jaguar and Land Rover are rolling out Amazon Alexa Voice Control to all models fitted with the latest Pivi Pro Infotainment. Car makers’ voice controls have come on a long way, but they’re far from perfect, frustrating to use and often only good with fixed commands. So the news that Jaguar Land Rover is following […]
JLR order bank of 150k+ – including 30,000 New Range Rover and 36,000 Land Rover Defender
As JLR announces its latest results we learn they’re sitting on an order bank of 154,000, including 30k Range Rover and 36k Defender. We’re all only too well aware of the supply and production issues surrounding ‘Covid and Chips’, with car makers struggling to make enough cars to satisfy demand, although that seems to be […]
Jaguar is in HIBERNATION – NO new models until 2025?
It seems JLR’s ‘Reimagine’ plan will mean no new models from Jaguar until 2025, with the current Jaguar range simplified in the meantime. We should have seen a new electric Jaguar XJ by now, but JLR decided to bin the new XJ EV and seek a new way forward with its ‘Reimagine’ plan, despite having […]
Jaguar XE, Jaguar XF (and XF Sportbrake) join the Jaguar R-Dynamic Black Pack
The Jaguar XE, Jaguar XF, and XF Sportbrake, R-Dynamic Black models arrive to add new choices for XE and XF buyers. Prices from £33,470. It’s probably fair to say that we can expect nothing properly new from Jaguar in the years up to 2025 when it is set to re-launch as a maker of Premium […]
New Jaguar F-PACE R-Dynamic Black joins the F-Pace range
The new Jaguar F-PACE R-Dynamic Black arrives to add to the F-Pace range with prices starting at £46,765 and rising to £60,505. Last year, the Jaguar F-Pace SUV got a bit of a titivate, including replacing the clunky infotainment with JLR’s newest, and quite decent, Pivi Pro system. And now the Jaguar F-Pace range gets […]
Jaguar E-Type ‘UNLEASHED’ – a V12 E-Type with 400bhp 6.1-litre V12
E-Type UK, top Jaguar E-Type specialists, launch the ‘Unleashed’ brand to deliver modern performance and comfort, starting with a 6.1-litre, 400bhp V12 E-Type. Talk to classic car specialists and you’ll get a mix of opinions about whether classic cars should be kept as is – original patina included – sympathetically restored, back to new, a […]
More ELECTRIC Jaguar E-Type conversions arrive with new Electrogenic offerings – cost from £65k
Classic car conversion specialist Electrogenic in Oxford offers electric conversion for the Jaguar E-Type costing from £65,000. As we head in to an EV world for new cars, there seems to be an appetite for converting classic cars to electric power. Or we assume there is looking at the growing number of offerings out there. […]
Jaguar I-Pace ‘Climbs Everest’ to demonstrate EV regenerative braking benefits
Jaguar takes the electric I-Pace up Great Dun Fell 16.2 times to the height of Everest on a single charge to demonstrate regenerative braking benefits. Apparently, during the Covid pandemic, something called ‘Everesting’ became a thing for endurance cyclists, repeatedly climbing and descending steep inclines until they clocked up the equivalent of ascending Mount Everest […]