Jaguar are delaying plans to replace the X-Type with a new small Jaguar until after a bigger and more refined Jaguar XF launches in 2015 We’ve discussed the replacement for the Jaguar X-Type – dubbed the New Small Jaguar – almost endlessly over the last year or two. Which with both the Jaguar XF and the Jaguar XJ replacing cars that were good […]
Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel confirmed. Surely not?
Jaguar has issued a press release saying the Jaguar XF will get the 2.2 litre diesel engine with a debut at New York. Which must be a fib. The headline says that the Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel is real. Surely not? A year ago we heard that Jaguar were going to give the XF the 2.2 litre […]
Jaguar XS: The New Small Jaguar? Not very likely
The Dutch motoring press are reporting the new small Jaguar will be the Jaguar XS, with details at a Dutch Motor Show in April. Seems highly unlikely. We have to confess that this is the first time we’ve heard that the New Small Jaguar is to be called the Jaguar XS. And we’re not really […]
Bertone Jaguar B99: Bertone aren’t giving up
Bertone release a gallery of images of the Bertone Jaguar B99 in what seems a desperate effort to convince the design is the perfect New Small Jaguar. The car world seemed to speak as one when they saw the the Bertone Jaguar B99 Concept we reported on just before the Geneva Motor Show. Glorious, they […]
Bertone B99 Jaguar NOT for Jaguar. Perhaps Lamborghini will be interested?
Jaguar has proclaimed the Bertone B99 – Bertone’s take on a new small Jaguar – as ‘Not for them’. Perhaps it could become a Lamborghini? We thought we were in a minority of one when we proclaimed the Bertone B99 – Bertone’s take on a new Small Jaguar – to be the wrong direction for Jaguar. We […]
Jaguar XF 2.2 litre diesel: Has Adrian Hallmark confirmed it?
We’re convinced that Jaguar’s Global Brand Director Adrian Hallmark revealed the Jaguar XF will get a 2.2 diesel engine this year at Jaguar’s Geneva Press Conference We’ve been discussing the likelihood of Jaguar putting the 2.2 diesel lump JLR currently use in the Freelander (and not just JLR in the Freelander – it’s rather ubiquitous […]
Jaguar B99 by Bertone: Still looks like Jaguar past to us
Bertone has revealed the B99 Concept at Geneva, their take on a future New Small Jaguar to take on the BMW 3 Series. With Jaguar looking more than seriously at a New Small Jaguar to take the BMW 3 Series on at its own game, it seems almost certain Jaguar’s had a part to play […]
New Baby Jaguar Revealed – Bertone B99 Concept
Bertone has created a concept of a new Baby Jaguar which will appear at the Geneva Motor Show – the Bertone B99. Earlier today there were teasers of a new Baby Jag designed and built by Bertone. But it was one of those daft ‘It’s all dark but it’s all there’ images. We did think […]
Jaguar XJ Coupe: Adrian’s Back
Jaguar’s Adrian Hallmark has revealed that Jaguar are planning a pillarless coupe version of the XJ after all – The Jaguar XJ Coupe. For many of you – especially as it’s been heavily read today – our report this morning on the New Small Jaguar may be the first time you’ve come across Adrian Hallmark. […]
New Small Jaguar: Adrian Hallmark pontificates
Jaguar’s Global Brand Director – Adrian Hallmark – has been pontificating on a new Small Jaguar – a replacement for the Jaguar X-Type I know. You’ve read headlines here before about a New Small Jaguar. A successor to the rather ill-fated Jaguar X-Type. Which we all know is something Tata will have to address at some […]