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The Jaguar Type 00 has begun a new phase of track testing. These pictures, taken by our brave spy photographers, show the production version of Jaguar’s bold four-door testing at the Nurburgring. As you’d expect, the prototype shown his is heavily camouflaged, but some details are starting to emerge.
It’s a GT alright, with a huge bonnet and swooping, tapered roofline at the rear. There’ll be no engine in the front, but that hasn’t stopped Jaguar’s design team dipping into the past when penning the future. The headlights also appear to be high and blocky, with both sitting at the top edge of the bonnet. A bit like the concept’s but larger.
When we spoke to Jaguar’s MD Rawdon Glover last year, he pointed out that Jaguar wouldn’t necessarily change its principles just because of an EV powertrain. ‘It’s never about the powertrain first,’ he said. ‘It’s got to be about the design of the brand first, and then those good things come second.’
We’re not expecting a traditional grille – as this is an electric car – but the positioning of mesh on the camouflage suggests there could be something grille-shaped between the headlights. The Jaguar i-Pace EV does use something resembling a grille, but this could equally be a red herring built into the disguise.
What else do I need to know?
The company’s all-electric Reimagine strategy is pivoting Jag towards a brave new future. One in which combustion engines are barred, old bodystyes banished and the earlier brand DNA is unrecognisable. Not for nothing has it rewritten the brand logo JaGUar…
Our man with the long lens has also reported that the new Jag is being tested alongside a BMW i7 60M. Sounds like that’s the benchmark engineers are aiming for.
We already know Jaguar’s new chapter will be underpinned by its JEA (Jaguar Electric Architecture) platform. For the GT four-door spotted here, CAR understands a WLTP range of around 470 miles and ultra-fast charging of 200 miles in 15 minutes.
How close is the Jaguar GT to production?
The prototype you see here is now undergoing the first phase of global testing, clocking hundreds of thousands of miles around the world on test sites and public roads. And that’s not to mention the thousands of virtual miles that have already taken place in JLR’s various simulators. It’ll be built in Solihull in the UK.
The Jaguar GT is the first in a trio of new electric Jaguars to go on sale in the next two to three years.
Price-wise, Jaguar will go defiantly premium and upmarket. Jaguar MD Glover told us: ‘We’re not going to be in the volume part of the market, which is probably most affected by what’s going on now. The term I use this is discretionary spend; you don’t have to spend £110,000 pounds on a vehicle – you do it because you want to.
‘You do it because there’s that sort of that inherent demand for it. We’ve got to create that demand. To a certain extent, that’s agnostic to the platform and that’s the job that Jaguar needs to do.’