- The new Electric GT is rumoured to be Jaguar’s most powerful production car ever.
- Jaguar seems to be betting everything on full electrification – no hybrid, no range extender, just a 400+ mile all-electric flagship.
- This six-figure grand tourer targets Bentley and Rolls-Royce, signalling a premium push for the British brand.
It’s been a tumultuous year for Jaguar. The British marque teased the future of its automotive vision with neon-lit fanfare and, well, it didn’t go as planned, to say the least.
The backlash for Jaguar’s Copy Nothing campaign introducing the Type 00 concept was so volatile that entire full-page editorials were dedicated to the rudderless direction of a once-revered car brand, one that was synonymous with British class and style, but had completely let down its base.
So it was clear the brand’s next announcement would have to land unlike any before it to convince long-time loyalists that Jaguar’s decision-makers hadn’t completely lost their collective minds. And, frankly, they might have nailed it with this one.
So here’s what we know: Dubbed the Electric GT (Jaguar has yet to confirm an official name), this black-and-white camouflage-wrapped prototype takes many design cues from the divisive Type 00 teaser, but beneath the shock-value styling lies something far more important. If reports are to be believed, this all-new model will be the most powerful production Jaguar ever built.
Jaguar has confirmed the Electric GT will ride on a dedicated EV platform and stretch well into flagship territory.
At over 204 inches long with a 126-inch wheelbase, it’s a full-size grand tourer in the truest sense, but you could argue with far more theatrical proportions. Despite its size, the roofline sits just 55 inches high, giving the car a low, predatory stance worthy of its Jaguar name.
Under the hood, the Electric GT will employ a tri-motor, all-wheel-drive setup. That means one motor at the front and two at the rear that will produce more than 1,000kW and over 1,000 lb-ft of torque.
That figure alone makes it the most powerful road-going Jaguar in the brand’s history, eclipsing everything from the XJ220 to the XE SV Project 8 with an electrified ease.
So far, so good? Well, this next trick is set to show just how confident the British brand is with its bold new EV world order: Jaguar has been adamant that there will be no range-extended or hybrid variant alongside this release, putting complete faith in its EV tech capabilities. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.
Chassis technology is equally ambitious. The Electric GT will feature air suspension with active twin-valve dampers, torque vectoring, and selectable drive modes, all tuned to deliver what Jaguar insists will be a driving experience “like no other electric car.”
Visually, the production car remains as unconventional as promised, with sweeping similarities to the Concept 00 models that split the auto world like a knife through butter last year.
The Electric GT is so visionary that the design team has put forward a model that forgoes a rear window entirely. Instead, it relies upon the increasingly popular camera-based visibility that’s become commonplace in the contemporary car market today. Rear doors also replace the concept’s impractical two-door layout, hinting at genuine grand-touring usability beneath the radical skin.
Love it or loathe it, Jaguar’s Electric GT is further proof of a brand staying the course where other marques have either folded or flopped.
Instead of dipping a tentative toe into electrification, Jaguar is out in the ice (quite literally) testing a six-figure, ultra-luxury flagship aimed not at BMW or Mercedes, but at Bentley and beyond. And if the numbers hold true, this will no longer be considered the most controversial Jaguar ever released; it’ll be the most powerful one, too.
