One of the worst kept automotive secrets right now is Jaguar’s all new car for the 2025 model year. The Coventry legends pledged to go fully electric by 2025, much to the disgust of purists and possibly to the detriment of the brand; only time will tell. It appears the ever-suffering marque has made good on this promise with their all new Jaguar model.
The rumour mill is currently using the codename “X900” and several media outlets are claiming it will be a £100,000 four-door GT. It will be built in the same Solihull plant as the all-electric Range Rover and will join a new line-up of only EV models being sold by Jaguar. A lot of people are rather excited by this new prospect as it promises to be very different from anything we’ve seen from the brand yet.
Jaguar have committed to ditching the XE and XF saloons, E-Pace and I-Pace SUVs and even the F-Type sports car in favour of a new line-up. The discontinuation of the XJ saloon a few years ago was already a bold enough move, before deciding to axe everything else we’ve come to associate with Jaguar. Much like what we saw back in the late 2000s, we are likely witnessing a complete shakeup of Jaguar’s design ethos.
A New Design
It doesn’t take insider knowledge to know what’s coming but it does help that giddy JLR employees have been sowing the seed all over the city for what is to come in 2025. It’s touted as a Porsche Panamera-esque saloon? Estate? Hatchback? Shooting brake? Well its said to resemble the Panamera anyway, and its full EV. So from a design perspective, its something Jaguar haven’t yet dabbled in, which is somewhat exciting.
Jaguar are undoubtedly the king of luxury saloons, but even the trend-setters have to move with the times or fear getting left behind. In a market dominated by hatchbacks and SUVs, its pleasing to know Jaguar haven’t fully caved and have adapted the four-door model. With the success of luxury sedans and shooting brakes like the offerings from Porsche, and even the likes of the Mercedes CLA, its easy to see why JLR have gone down this particular route. We just hope it looks as good as people are saying.
What are the Technical Specs?
So we know its going to be fully electric. Jaguar’s current line-up at the time of writing includes the all-electric I-Pace, sporting two permanent magnet synchronous motors that together produce 400 horsepower to all four wheels. If the new vehicle will boast a similar setup, this would put in on a similar performance level to the base models of the Tesla Model S and Porsche Taycan.
However, it has been said that this will be the most powerful production Jaguar ever made. That mantle currently belongs to the Jaguar XE SV Project 8, as we’ve painted here at Peacock Prestige, which produced 592 horsepower from the 5.0L supercharged V8 engine, meaning it would be around the 600 horsepower mark at the very least. Jaguar also claim the new car will have 435 miles of range and will be capable of adding around 200 miles of range after just 15-minutes of Rapid Charging. This would in theory put the Jaguar X900 around the same sort of level with the Porsche Taycan GTS and Tesla Model S 100D.
What comes as a surprise, to us at least, is that JLR reportedly enrolled the help of Buchloe-based BMW affiliates Alpina for assistance regarding the suspension. Despite Alpina’s legendary reputation for great-handling road cars, you’d think Jaguar would be pretty capable of designing their own suspension after over 75 years in the trade. Nevertheless, as the previously independent Alpina brand becomes fully acquired by the BMW conglomerate in 2026, it is good to hear that the Bovensiepen family engineers are still making interesting moves in the automotive world.
JLR officials have claimed they were so impressed with the ride of the Alpina B7 in comparison to the regular BMW 7-Series, that they just had to know their secret! Alpina cars of years gone by would improve their ride using a combination of Bilstein dampers and Eibach springs, but of course the Bavarians have come a long way since then. They are known for exceptional road handling partnered with unrivalled comfort; a smooth and sporty ride. So there’s big expectations for this new big cat!
A sign of better things to come?
Its certainly a bold move, but hopefully one that pays off for Jaguar. So many times we’ve seen iconic British marques disappear into obscurity after an unsuccessful takeover. Tata‘s tenure as owners since 2008 certainly hasn’t been the prettiest; mostly plagued with a poor reputation for reliability and more recently problems with insuring Land Rovers. Even with the shortcomings, it keeps hundreds of thousands of people in the West Midlands in a job and keeps some automotive manufacturing in Coventry. For that, we applaud you Jag!
What could be done differently?
JLR have recently made use of BMW’s 4.4L V8 as seen in the M5 CS, but in SUV offerings from both Jaguar and Land Rover. Now imagine that lump in a “four-door GT”! A boy can dream…
Sadly JLR are making good on their pledge to carry Jaguar into the foreseeable future as an all-electric brand. Perhaps a far cry from the legendary engine makers they once were, plagued by a somewhat unfair reputation of unreliability. Perhaps this is the direction Jaguar needed to make their cars relevant again, in a reality where UK roads are dominated by German offerings, hatchback based SUVs and of course the electric revolution.