I opened a news article this week, sucked in my breath, and now I'm trying to exhale. I am so excited!
The news was Jaguar is releasing it's first ever SUV. Jaguar and SUV don't even belong in the same sentence, but they have gone and done it. I must tell you that I am a Jaguar purist. I have been slowly warming to the Jag F-type. I own a Jag V6 3.2 Sovereign. That, for me is the Jaguar benchmark design, and although over 20 years old, it still is as fresh a design as the day it came on line.
We have come from that to the Jaguar F-Pace, and I must say I am so struck by such a radical move by Jaguar that on the one hand I am lost for words, but on the other, the cars speak for themselves. I wanted to make my next car something like a Porsche Cayenne, or a Ferrari SUV, or the Volvo XC60. All those dreams have gone out the window. With Jaguar, there will be several models of the SUV, but they are all tricked out with superb technology, and there is even one model that will give up to 57 miles per gallon. That's the one for me.
I'm not going to try and describe the technology in detail as there are simply too many variants, but the car is due on the roads in April of 2016. Between now and then I will have to save up my pennies to be ready to get in line for the most extraordinary event in motoring history, as seen through my eyes. The bad news is that this car may become really hard to get as I think it will be seen as a Must Have.
Welcome, Jaguar SUV!
Copyright (c) 2015 Eugene Carmichael
