New Jaguar XF Sportbrake MIGHT happen – but an XE Estate WON’T

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Ian Callum Jaguar’s Chief Designer, has qualified his recent comments on Jaguar’s estate cars by clarifying he didn’t say there would be no XF Sportbrake.

Jaguar’s Ian Callum – the man responsible for Jaguar’s design – has been making noises about the chances of a future Jaguar Estate for some time.

Back in 2014, we reported Callum declaring that a Jaguar XE Estate (and, for that matter, an XE Coupe) was a very difficult business case, and building an XE Estate would probably just steal sales from the XE saloon. Which disappointed a lot of Jaguar lovers who were waiting patiently for a replacement for the X-Type estate to arrive.

Having already quashed hopes of an XE Estate, Callum seemed to go further still in a recent interview by apparently declaring there was no chance of a new XF Estate either, and that Jaguar would instead concentrate on crossovers, like the new Jaguar F-Pace.

But it seems the interviewer at Automotive News got the wrong end of the stick, and Ian Callum has taken to Twitter to put him right.

I have been mis-quoted in @Automotive_News regarding the future of Sportbrake. I said there would be no XE Sportbrake. Nothing more!

— Ian Callum (@IanCallum) April 26, 2016

Of course, just because Ian Callum says he didn’t declare the XF Sportbrake dead and buried, it doesn’t mean there will be a future model.

But at least there’s a possibility, even if it’s a real shame there’ll be no XE Estate.