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Jaguar has this week confirmed it will introduce an all-new model to its line-up, to go on sale in 2016, named the F-PACE.
The marque’s executives say they received such an ‘overwhelmingly positive response’ to the C-X17 concept car last year that they just had to make it a reality.
Ian Callum, director of design, Jaguar, said: “The Jaguar F-PACE, inspired by the F-TYPE, represents a perfectly judged balance of performance, style and practicality. It offers a unique combination of Jaguar sports car-inspired exterior design, fused beautifully with a thoroughly practical and spacious luxury interior. The F-PACE is our family sports car.”
Speaking in Detroit, Andy Goss, Jaguar Land Rover global sales director said: “In 2015 we will celebrate Jaguar’s 80th year. We have started it by announcing our first performance crossover which we consider to be the ultimate practical sports car – a car that builds on the marque’s founding ideals of Grace, Pace and Space to become one of the most innovative Jaguars we’ve ever developed. The F-PACE has now begun its engineering and development testing programme ahead of the new model going on sale in 2016.”
The F-PACE will be manufactured in Solihull, UK. Further details about the new model will be revealed later this year.
Euro Motors, meanwhile, was last year appointed by Jaguar Land Rover Limited as the exclusive importer and distributor for Jaguar in Bahrain, after being a long-standing partner and official Land Rover distributor in the kingdom for more than 15 years and recently reported a 41 per cent increase in the sales of its Jaguar cars.
Its sales department also celebrated ‘raising its own standards’ by selling an impressive 405 units of Land Rover vehicles in 2014 as compared to 334 in 2013.
