Fresh from Jaguar Land Rover’s announcement that Jaguar will only sell electric vehicles based on a single platform from 2025, questions have been raised about the future of the brand’s sports cars, in particular the F-Type.
In transforming Jaguar into an electric-only brand, the British carmaker has already decided to kill off the next-generation XJ even though the development of it was well progressed. During a recent interview with Top Gear, JLR boss Thierry Bolloré admitted that the company’s next-generation of cars will be more compact than its current models and that the future of its sports cars has yet to be determined.
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“It’s a question that we are looking at very carefully,” he said when asked directly about electric Jaguar sports cars. “I’m not going to answer that right now because it’s a question of importance for us, and we will answer when we have decided exactly what we want to do with this new portfolio of Jaguar.”
All future JLR models will feature one of three available platforms, one of which will be used by Jaguar and two others that will underpin Land Rover models. While it remains to be seen what specific models Jaguar will be producing after 2025, Bolloré said he will encourage designers to run “totally free to prepare and propose the most emotionally dramatic designs they can imagine” for the new generation of cars.
In addition to producing solely all-electric vehicles from 2025, Jaguar aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across its supply chain, products and operations by 2039.
