What is it?
The entry-level version of the Jaguar E-Pace compact SUV – almost. You can actually go one trim level lower on the car’s equipment roster and, in theory, depart from your local dealer with a car costing less than £29,000 at list price – but Jaguar didn’t have one of those for us to test.
The car uses an ‘Ingenium’ 2.0-litre turbodiesel engine closely related to those of Jaguar’s more powerful oil-burners, that produces 148bhp and 280lb ft of torque, and drives the car through a six-speed manual gearbox and also exclusively through the front wheels.
Only one other engine in the range can be combined with a manual gearbox, and no other misses out on four-wheel drive, so this really is the E-Pace at its simplest. And it’s lightest – which, in a car we’ve already criticised for a bit of excessive bulk, is worth noting.
Stick with entry-level trim in your E-Pace and you might imagine you’ll get a pretty pared down equipment level, but you’d be surprised. The bottom-rung car does get manually adjusted fabric seats without heaters, but it has 17in alloys, LED headlights, a 10in touchscreen infotainment system with DAB radio, cruise control, a reversing camera and a fairly full tally of active safety systems.
Moving up to an ‘S’ is a £4100 stretch, but gets you upgraded headlights, 18in alloys, electric leather seats, heated mirrors and an infotainment upgrade including a better navigation setup, an in-car wifi hotspot and Jaguar’s ‘InControl’ smartphone apps. It may seem like a large premium for that little lot, but there should be plenty of demand for it considering the enhanced connectivity features.
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Beautiful
Beautiful! I will buy it
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Not an unpleasant car t look
Not an unpleasant car t look at but it doesn't seem very competetive, as others have said a stelvio seems a much better buy, which for a new model is a shame.
Not so mush unpleasant to
Not so mush unpleasant to look at, more boring and charcterless to look at.
typos1...well named...
...even if the number is somewhat underestimated.
Try that again, give those who read and understand written English, a chance to interpret what you are having difficulty saying.
In fact, the X-Type was far
In fact, the X-Type was far more Jaguar...