Jaguar’s Making An SUV!

It's gonna be fresh—and it's coming in 2015.

Jaguar and Land Rover are two peas in one corporate pod, and they tend to stick to what they do best. For Jaguar, it’s making svelte, fast sedans and coupes; for Land Rover, it’s building tough off-roaders with luxurious interiors. Until 2015, it seems—because Jaguar’s gonna drop a sport-utility vehicle of their own on the world.

According to Auto Express, Jaguar’s SUV will boast the same slippery styling as the rest of the lineup, with short overhangs, a sharply-angled windshield, an XJ-like blacked-out C-pillar and F-type-like headlights. It’ll be small for an SUV, around the size of its Range Rover Evoque cousin—but instead of basing the SUV on the Evoque/LR2 chassis, Jaguar will reportedly build it on the same platform as their upcoming small luxury car designed to fight the BMW 3 Series. All-wheel-drive will be an option, and the main engine (at least in the United States) will almost certainly be a 2.0 liter, 240 hp turbocharged inline-four. Don’t be surprised to see a hybrid version, though, or one with a 340 horsepower supercharged 3.0 liter V6.

So what’s this little Jaguar SUV gonna be called? Well, we hear the name will either be Q-Type or XQ, depending on how Jaguar’s feeling about their naming scheme from here on out. (We like the -type names better than random two-letter combinations, for the record.) Either way, expect the Q-Type/XQ to arrive around 2015. No word yet on whether Land Rover’s planning a sedan as a counter-move…[Shout-out to Auto Express!]


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