Jaguar F-Pace 20d

V6 F-Pace 30d way out of your budget? We tell you if the cheaper 20d could be worth a try.

- Nikhil Bhatia

What you see here is the freshly crowned 2017 World Car of the Year in the more affordable of its avatars. This is the Jaguar F-Pace 20d and prices range from Rs 68.4 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi) for the Pure trim to Rs 77.8 lakh for the Prestige trim version that’s featured here. The more powerful F-Pace 30d, for reference, costs upwards of Rs 1.18 crore. That’s a huge gulf in prices, so what gives?

The biggest saving is on account of what’s under this F-Pace’s shapely hood. Where the 30d uses a stonking 300hp, 3.0-litre V6 diesel engine, this 20d comes with a more down-to-earth 2.0-litre fourcylinder diesel engine. It’s Jaguar Land Rover’s Ingenium engine and on the F-Pace it makes 180hp and 430Nm. The power figure may seem low in something touted as a sports SUV but let’s give the engine a fair hearing.