Jaguar News
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With European prestige-car makers scrambling to respond to the unexpected and disruptive arrival of electric-car company Tesla Motors, a host of luxury car brands have been showing off their electric concepts. The coming Frankfurt Motor Show will see design studies by Audi and Porsche, possibly others, that point toward future all-electric vehicles with ranges of 250 miles or more. And British maker Jaguar Land Rover is determined to keep up with its higher-volume German competitors. DON'T MISS: Mercedes Confirms All-Electric Luxury Car To Fight Tesla 'Very Soon' So the company--which sells...
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Jaguar 'EV-Type' To Be All-Electric F-Pace To Compete With Tesla?It's still hard to explain to outsiders just how disruptive Tesla Motors and its electric luxury cars have been to the established German prestige automakers. From 2017 to 2020, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche will all launch one or more "Tesla-alikes" intended to match or surpass the...
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2017 Jaguar XE Small Sport Sedan To Offer Diesel Option At StartThe 2017 Jaguar XE 20d will feature a diesel engine from Jaguar's new Ingenium line.
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2017 Jaguar XE: Surprisingly Similar To Tesla Model 3, But For One ThingIt won't be available until the 2017 model year, its sleek body is largely made of aluminum, and it uses advanced new technology for remarkable efficiency gains over competitors. It's a sleek compact sport sedan that generated reams of coverage even before we knew anything about it, and its arrival...
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Is Jaguar Perhaps Planning An Electric Sports Car? 'EV-Type' Trademark Teases Us With PossibilitiesJaguar trademarks the name "EV-Type" in the U.S. and Europe.
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36-MPG Jaguar XJ-S: Hypermiling Owner's Great Lengths For 1984 Luxury CoupeAn owner boosts the fuel economy of his 3.6-liter six-cylinder Jaguar XJ-S.
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The 2017 Jaguar XE diesel will be the automaker's most fuel-efficient production car ever.
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Upcoming Jaguar XE Sedan: Mostly Aluminum For Fuel Efficiency With LuxuryAluminum construction and Ingenium engines will boost the 2016 Jaguar XE's efficiency.
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2017 Jaguar XE: Compact Sedan Built From Aluminum To Boost MPGIn recent years we've finally seen a reversal of the trend towards heavier cars, but Jaguar will take that a step further when it launches the 2016 XE sedan. Long-awaited replacement for the unloved X-Type, the XE's body structure is 75 percent aluminum, the highest of any in its class. READ: Tesla...
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Jaguar C-X75 Hybrid Supercar Video: "Veyron Performance, Prius Emissions"Not to be outdone by Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren, Jaguar and the Williams F1 team spent the last few years working behind the scenes on their own hybrid supercar, showing that going green could also be exciting. Originally planned with jet turbine range-extending engines, it was then downgraded to...
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Jaguar Joins BMW, Other Luxury Makes, In Adding Start-Stop For Fuel Savings (Video)It's taken a while for carmakers to begin fitting stop/start systems to U.S. vehicles, such systems' benefits not really advertised to consumers in a car's EPA numbers. In the real world though, many manufacturers say the systems can save you significant amounts of fuel--particularly if you...
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Jaguar's Hybrid C-X75 Hypercar Cancelled: ReportBritish luxury automaker Jaguar has cancelled plans to build a hybrid supercar, the company said today. The C-X75 plug-in hybrid supercar was originally set for launch in late 2013, following on from a concept car which used jet turbines as a range-extending powerplant. According to Autocar, those...
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The greenest Jaguar we've driven here on GreenCarReports is the European-market XF 2.2D, but the smooth, economical diesel certainly isn't the limit of what Jaguar can achieve. Despite cutting a significantly larger figure on the road, the Jaguar XJ_e plug-in hybrid makes the fuel-sipping XF look like a positive gas-guzzler. For that reason, it's the perfect car to enter the annual RAC Future Car Challenge, taking place in London this November. The Future Car Challenge showcases the best of green vehicle technology, with everything from hybrids and electric vehicles to fuel-cell cars taking...
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2013 Jaguar XF: From V-8 To Turbo Four For Fuel EfficiencyIn coming years, every car company will make every vehicle it builds greener--meaning more fuel-efficient--courtesy of increasingly stringent gas mileage and carbon emissions rules around the world. That applies not only to smaller, simpler cars, but also large, heavy, fast, luxurious, and...
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Jaguar Joins Downsized Engine Parade With Very Familiar FourWriting about the latest carmaker plans to add smaller, more efficient engines is now almost a weekly occurrence. Today's lucky winner is Jaguar, which took the occasion of the Beijing Auto Show to announce some future powertrain plans--including its first production four-cylinder engine since the...
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Jaguar C-X75 Plug-In Supercar: Turbines For Track OnlyYou may recognize the Jaguar C-X75 supercar from the 2010 Paris Auto Show, where it wowed the critics and public alike. You may also remember that the car was destined to be a plug-in, range-extended vehicle, the electric motors supplemented not by a regular gasoline engine, but by a series of...
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Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel: Forbidden Fruit First DriveThere are - believe it or not - advantages to living in England. Okay, so the weather is as depressing as the stereotypes suggest, and the average price of gas is currently around $8.17 per gallon, but we do occasionally get cars denied to those on U.S. shores. One of those is the Jaguar XF...
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World’s Cheapest Car, Tata Nano, Gets More Features, Better EconomyWe may have unfairly called the Indian-built Tata Nano “unusually combustible” last week, but there’s no denying that the world’s cheapest car is responsible for helping tens of thousands of Indians get behind the wheel of their first car. Now the diminutive Tata Nano has...
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Traditionally, small city cars haven’t been viewed by the mainstream auto industry or most car buyers with much enthusiasm. Now they’re so trendy that even renowned luxury brands like Jaguar want to build one. Speaking with What Car? magazine at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, Jaugar design boss Ian Callum revealed that the British prestige automaker was seriously considering building a car to rival smaller cars like the Toyota iQ-based Aston Martin Cygnet minicar. “It’s a personal view, but there’s room for a premium small car,” Callum explained. “It...
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Jaguar XF Clean Diesel Completes U.S. Cross-Country TourOne week ago we brought you news of British brothers David and Alexander Madgwick, who'd set out on a tour across North America at the wheel of a Jaguar XF diesel. 2,884 miles later, they've made it from New York to Los Angeles in the most efficient model Jaguar has ever produced. The economy over...
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Jaguar XF Clean Diesel Sets Off On U.S. TourIn an effort to meet future fuel economy requirements, more manufacturers than ever are considering selling diesel models in North America. The next carmaker considering diesel sales could well be British sports and luxury car maker Jaguar. According to Motor Authority, a British-registered...
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Jaguar C-X16 Sports Coupe Concept: 'Push-To-Pass' Hybrid (Video)Innumerable design studies for a successor to the legendary E-Type Jaguar may finally have reached their conclusion: Jaguar's C-X16 concept sports coupe seems very likely to be built within a few years as the Jaguar XE. But the "production concept" to be launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show next...
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Jaguar C-X75 Plug-In Hybrid Supercar Coming In 2013It’s been speculated for the past several months but today we finally got confirmation that Jaguar’s stunning C-X75 concept car is headed for production and due for launch in late 2013. In a press conference early this morning, Jaguar confirmed that together with the Williams Formula 1...
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Peugeot Sets Electric Car Lap Time at Nurburgring in EX1 ConceptHow fast can an electric car get around the iconic Nurburgring Nordschleife in Germany? Until recently, the fastest official time for an electric car stood at 9 minutes and 52 seconds. Recorded last year in a BMW Mini E racing car, it was the first time an all-electric car had completed the course...
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