Jaguar recently unveiled the 2016 F-Pace SUV at the Frankfurt Motor Show. (Photo : Reuters)
After several months of leaks and teaser images, the 2016 Jaguar F-Pace SUV was finally unveiled at the 2016 Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany.
According to Auto Car, the 2016 F-Pace is Jaguar's first ever SUV in the company's 70-year history.
The new Jaguar F-Pace model will hit showrooms in April 2016 and will fetch a price tag of £34,170 which is roughly $53,000. According to Auto Express, the car will be available in four-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive. It also comes in both manual and automatic transmission. The car's engine is available in both petrol and diesel variant.
Jaguar chief designer Ian Callum said that the car took almost four years to be developed. Callum said, "As a design team, we'd never done anything like this before. In some ways it went against our very nature of wanting Jaguars to be low, long and sleek."
A pre-production prototype of the F-Pace shows that it has a 10.2-inch central touchscreen and a 12.3-inch virtual instrument cluster. The car also features an optional setup where the driver can view the car's satellite navigation instruction instead of the conventional dials.
The new Jaguar F-Pace will be launched in four models; Prestige, R-Sport, Portfolio and S models. A limited First Edition version is also in the books.
Engine models will range from the basic 178bhp 2.0-liter Ingenium diesel to a 296bhp 3.0-liter V6 diesel and the high-end 375bhp supercharged petrol.
On the aspect of fuel economy, the basic rear-drive manual model have 57.7 miles per gallon return. It has an acceleration of zero to 62mph in 8.9 seconds and has a top speed of 130mph. The all-wheel drive model with automatic transmission has 53.3 miles per gallon return and acceleration of zero to 63mph in 8.7 seconds.
