The CX-17 Crossover Concept from Jaguar was unveiled two years ago on this very day and it took the world by storm, and not just because it was the company’s first attempt at a body type which its sister company Land Rover has mastered over decades.
Now the production ready version of the crossover concept has been unveiled right before the Frankfurt Motorshow and in flesh it seems the wait has been worth it. You can at once tell that its got the soul of the F-Type sports car and hence the name ‘F-Pace’.
But really, a Jaguar crossover? Well, why not? Porsche did it and succeeded, Bentley is about to do it in a few hours, and even Rolls Royce will do it in the near future.
The crossover and SUV body forms are but an eventuality for luxury car makers. Having gotten that out of the way, here’s what the F-Pace is like in flesh.
Developed solely by a congregation within JLR called the ‘F-Section’, the F-Pace is the 3rd car based on Jaguar’s new Lightweight Aluminium Architecture following the XF and the XE. With it, Jaguar aims to gather attributes from other cars in the portfolio like the F-Type’s stunning design and performance, the XE’s value and accessibility and the XF’s technology and brand image, and top it with the practicality offered by the crossover body type.
Having said that, more than 80 per cent of the parts on the F-Pace are brand new. No other manufacturer uses aluminium as extensively as Jaguar because despite its evident benefit of weight and strength, aluminium is extremely hard to shape and work with.
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