Jaguar E-Pace first OFFICIAL photo teases the E-Pace arrival
The Jaguar E-Pace – Jaguar’s new smaller SUV – will debut on 13 July as Jaguar tease its arrival with a photo of the new SUV’s rear end.
Jaguar are billing the E-Pace as a ‘Compact Performance SUV’ and promising “sports car-derived AWD Technology” to make the E-Pace a proper Jag, just one which sits up higher and tickles the current market lust for SUVs of all sizes, shapes and prices.
From what we’ve already seen of the E-Pace, Jaguar aren’t messing too much with the successful recipe of the F-Pace, delivering a smaller SUV which follows the design cues of the F-Pace but looks chunkier, more squat and with a wheel right out at each corner.
We can expect the F-Pace to come with Jaguar’s latest Ingenium petrol and diesel engines, including the 286bhp Si4 290 version of the 2.0 litre petrol Ingenium just launched in the Evoque and Discovery Sport. It also seems likely the E-Pace will be offered with a 3-cylinder mild hybrid powertrain.
Ian Callum, Jaguar’s design guru, said:
The combination of sports car looks with Jaguar performance will ensure that the E-PACE stands out. Every Jaguar is designed to excite the senses, and we think E-PACE will do just that, albeit with its own individual character.
Due to debut officially on 13 July, the E-Pace could well get a transverse engine layout and be available in FWD at the bottom of the range, and it looks like Jaguar may have to get Magna Steyr to build it – just like the I-Pace – as we can’t see where they’d get the capacity from in the UK.
Full details of the new Jaguar E-Pace on 13 July – if not before – but we do already know the E-Pace will cost from £28,000.
But expect to pay more like £40k for an E-Pace you actually want.
The Jaguar SUV family – F-Pace, I-Pace and E-Pace
Rtfa Zeberdee says
“Due to debut officially on 13 July, the E-Pace could well get a transverse engine layout and be available in FWD at the bottom of the range,” why don’t you know, its a bit late for using “could” in an article about a car going to be sold in a few weeks? Just rehashing other magazines reports?
Cars UK says
Not really; just an effort to outline what we expect the E-Pace to offer. Which seems reasonable as no real detail has been delivered by JLR.
Rtfa Zeberdee says
is that not a journalists job to get the nitty gritty about whether its transverse or not? this can’t be a total secret as people have tested the car