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Jaguar is stepping up the pace again
Jaguar is showing further ambition in the SUV market with the new E-Pace, due in SA in 2018
When you launch a new model and in its first year it increases your sales by half, you crack open the bubbly. If you are in England, you go to the pub. Once the hangover has subsided you gather everyone together and ask them if they can do it again. It appears that they can, because here is the new Jaguar E-Pace, which will go on sale in SA early in 2018. After selling more than 50,000 examples of the F-Pace around the world in 2016, the company then announced it will make an all-electric I-Pace SUV available in 2018. Okay we all said, a battery-electric small SUV — nice move Jag. While it was busy unveiling it, the rumours had already started that there would be a regular model to sit below the World Car of the Year title-winning F-Pace. It is Jag’s attempt to take on the Audi Q5, BMW X3, Porsche Macan and Range Rover Evoque, the latter of course being in the same Jaguar Land Rover stable. Unlike the Evoque, Jag says the E-Pace is a "compact performance SUV with sports car looks". ...
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