Jaguar stopped building the cars people recognized.
The F-Pace left production last December. The dealer lots have been living on leftover inventory. The next Jaguar is not a cheaper SUV to fill those lots. It is a four-door electric grand tourer priced like a junior Bentley, due in showrooms in the first half of 2027.
The production car is called Type 01. The “0” is zero tailpipe emissions. The “1” is first of the new line. The concept that started the argument, Type 00, landed at Miami Art Week in December 2024. The finished car gets its public reveal in New York on October 6, 2026.
If this one misses, Jaguar does not have a Plan B sedan sitting behind it.
What It Is — And What It Is Not
Type 00 was a two-door show piece. Type 01 is a much larger four-door GT, about 5.2 meters long, about 1.4 meters tall, on a 3.2-meter wheelbase. Standard wheels are 23 inches. There is no conventional rear window. A digital rear-view display sits low in the windshield, at roughly the same height as the door mirrors.
Jaguar has already shown the cabin. A spine runs down the center and splits the interior into four individual seats. The driving position is low. The dashboard is slim. The company calls it a concept cabin brought to production. Whether American buyers read that as luxury or as a science project is the open question.
The platform is Jaguar Electric Architecture only. Executives have said there is no hybrid, PHEV, or range-extender version coming. The hood is too low for a combustion engine even if someone wanted one.
The Numbers That Matter
Powertrain: three motors — one front, two rear — all-wheel drive with torque vectoring. Combined output is more than 1,000 metric horsepower, with torque around 1,300 Nm. Prototypes have been seen with air suspension, adaptive twin-valve dampers, and all-wheel steering.
Battery: about 120 kWh. Architecture: 800-volt. Peak DC charging: about 350 kW. Jaguar has talked about adding roughly 200 miles in 15 minutes.
Range targets sit around 400 miles EPA and close to 430 miles / 700 km WLTP, even on those 23-inch wheels. Those figures are still targets until October’s reveal and the first certified labels.
Built in the United Kingdom. That also means no U.S. federal EV tax credit under the current assembly and battery rules.
What It Will Cost
Jaguar is not chasing BMW 5 Series money.
U.K. pricing has been described in the £120,000 to £150,000-plus band for loaded, personalized cars. In the U.S., reporting clusters around a $130,000 average transaction — roughly double what a typical Jaguar sold for a few years ago. Some estimates put a loaded car well past $150,000. The title number is safe: this is a $100,000-plus EV, and not at the bottom of that range.
The U.S. retailer footprint is being cut to about 80 points. Fewer stores. Higher tickets. The Range Rover playbook, applied to a brand that spent a decade selling $60,000 crossovers.
Orders are expected after the New York show. First customer cars: first half of 2027, with some U.S. timing talk pointing at summer.
Can One Car Save the Brand?
Jaguar’s last volume products fought Audi, BMW, and Mercedes on price and lost on image. Type 01 walks away from that fight on purpose. The intended neighbors are Porsche Taycan Turbo, Bentley’s electric future, and the lower rungs of Rolls-Royce and Aston Martin.
The risk is obvious. The design is polarizing. The production pause left the nameplate quiet for more than a year. Wealthy EV buyers already have Lucid, Porsche, Mercedes EQS, and a coming wave of Chinese luxury metal. A car with no rear window and a $130,000 average check has to feel special every morning, not just on the stand in New York.
An electric SUV is widely expected to follow. That is probably the volume piece. Type 01 is the statement piece. Statements do not pay the lights if nobody writes the check.
October 6 is when the camouflage comes off. Until then, everything we know is this: Jaguar bet the company on a 1,000-hp British GT that costs six figures and looks like nothing in the current lot.
Would you put $130,000 on the first new Jaguar in a generation — or wait to see who is still in line in 2027?
