Evoque-based small SUV is depressingly unremarkable
JAGUAR HASN’T QUITE ATTAINED Porsche-like levels of SUV sales with its recently introduced F-Pace, but it’s difficult not to imagine the brand’s luxury saloons and sports cars one day becoming a sideline to the seemingly limitless sales of what were once known as ‘soft-roaders’.
Exhibit A is 2016’s F-Pace sales tally, which at 63,519 accounted for almost 11 per cent of total 2016 sales for Jaguar Land Rover, and nearly 43 per cent of Jaguar sales alone. So this new car, the E-Pace, will surely tip the sales balance in favour of those tall, lumbering vehicles aimed at customers with ‘active lifestyles’.
To be fair to the E-Pace, it’s less tall and lumbering than many, if not quite the ‘Jaguar GTI’ you’ve seen splashed across other mags. It weighs over 1.8 tons for a start, making it more fat GIT than fab GTI, and it’s longer, wider and taller than the Range Rover Evoque with which it shares much of its engineering.
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