Jaguar Land Rover's disastrous product planning has been laid out for all to see in its latest financial results. The company ended its petrol Jaguar models and up to a year at least before its new generation fully-electric series is in showrooms. Dealers have no cars to sell and depend on service work to keep them going. Its Land Rover division is relying … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Jaguar XE D200 SE R Dynamic
Jaguar’s baby car is maturing. The Jaguar XE series was introduced in 2015 to replace the X-Type and has been refreshed over six years so it now comprises more than a dozen models using the same four-door saloon body with petrol or diesel engines in rear or all-wheel-drive and five trim levels from standard to highly sporting as befits Jaguar's … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Jaguar XE P250SE R Dynamic
You have to admire Jaguar, which has gone through tough times yet always produces some head-turning desirable cars. The latest XE is a good case in point offering a very broad range of eye-catching four-door saloons in rear and all-wheel-drive pitched against German rivals as well as Swedish saloons. The range explained: There are approximately 50 models … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Jaguar XE Portfolio 2.0 Ingenium 200hp
The 2018 model year Jaguar XE sports saloon sees the debut of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Ingenium petrol engines, writes David Miles. It's the first application of their 2.0-litre, four cylinder turbocharged 200, 250 and 300hp petrol engines while a 240hp Ingenium turbodiesel engine is also added to the range and the sporty XE S gets a 40hp increase to 380hp … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Jaguar XE Portfolio 2.0 AWD
Slowly, surely and with a steely eye on sales, Jaguar is stalking its rivals. From a comparatively small range of models a few years ago it has become the UK’s biggest car-maker with ranges it cannot produce fast enough and means there are long waiting lists from well healed customers eager to embrace the “cats”. Until fairly recently when … [Read more...]
JLR double-boost to Midlands
Jaguar XE production is being moved from Solihull to Castle Bromwich and the company is also launching new petrol engines at its Wolverhampton site. The XE will gradually transfer from its current home at Solihull, demonstrating the inherent flexibility of Jaguar Land Rover’s West Midlands manufacturing operations - the result of more than £1bn of … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Jaguar XE R-Sport 163ps
Jaguar is the cat with the cream in the shape of the new XE premium saloon. Pitching in against some longer established rivals from Germany, it not only has the measure of them but can beat them in many respects. We first drove the XE Portfolio last year and were impressed with the new 180ps diesel engine, but for this longer test we tried the cheaper … [Read more...]
