The first official entry of British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover to the SUV segment, the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace, is proving to be a worthy luxury contender against other compact SUV stalwarts including the Audi Q5, the BMW X3, and the Mercedes-Benz GLC.
What’s more, the 2017 F-Pace can actually go from 0 to 60 miles per hour at 5.1 seconds at a price that is far more competitive than the Porsche Macan, cites Kelley Blue Book.
The SUV is a high-riding, all-wheel-drive that drives well on-road and also does well off-road when the need arises.
The best thing about it is that the 2017 F-Pace carries the spirit of Jaguar with it wherever it goes. It has that excellent engine lineup, solid road manners, and stronger in-car tech which only gets more impressive as the consumer moves up the price ladder.
The quiet interior of the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace exudes good workmanship and materials, and the space offered feels calculated to an exact algorithm to fit five adult passengers comfortably and conveniently.
The roominess is enhanced by one of the biggest panorama roofs in the business, but it is compromised for the drive by a thick B-pillar and a narrow view through the rear window.
The 2017 F-Pace’s interior has an option for other accessories including a 17-speaker surround-sound setup and 14-way power front seats.
But the standard 11-speaker Meridian sound system and 10-way adjustable front seats more than hold their own too.
Competitive pricing
Motoring enthusiasts also believe that the pricing of the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace is also very competitive as its base model starts at about $42,000 for the F-Pace 20d.
The price and feature sets move up from there and consumers can add $1,400 to almost any F-Pace to get the ’35t’ supercharged V6 gasoline engine.
The F-Pace Prestige has a starting price of under $50,000 while the sports-car F-Pace S model starts at about $57,700. The latter also comes with the powerful 380-horsepower V6 engine, 20-inch wheels, and manually configurable adaptive suspension dynamics.
The 2017 Jaguar F-Pace also reiterates how Jaguar Land Rover has completely reinvented itself over the last eight years which was highlighted by building some utterly beguiling cars with disappointingly few buyers, details Cnet.
In fact, in 2015, Jaguar sales actually slipped by 8% in a hot market that went up by 6%. The carmaker has sold just 14,466 vehicles in North America last year.
That figure is in stark contrast to the all-SUV all-the-time sibling, Land Rover, which had its sales skyrocketing by 37% when it was able to sell more than 70,500 units.
The closest in personality
In terms of personality, the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace is closest to the BMW X4 and the Porsche Macan but its 186.3-inch length, 76.2-inch width, and 113.1-inch wheelbase mean that it’s slightly longer and wider than those vehicles.
The 2017 F-Pace shall come in five variants including an initial First Edition which shall be the top-of-the-line range. The rest of the line-up includes the Prestige, the R-Sport, the Portfolio, and the S.
Its base model variants shall boast of 19-inch alloy wheels, leather interior, 38-watt 11-speaker sound system, eight-inch infotainment touch screen with navigation, keyless ignition, power tailgate, reversing camera and parking sensors, Xenon headlights, and torque vectoring by braking.
All its variants will come with a four-wheel-drive feature that blends well with an eight-speed transmission. The 2017 Jaguar F-Pace will not come with a manual version but the vehicle can also be used to venture off-road. The vehicle is capable of doing all the things that one would expect from a modern Jaguar but it delivers so much more.
Meanwhile, analysts believe that the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace should easily outsell the entire current lineup, which posted 16,000 units of sales in the US in 2015. That’s quite small compared to the Land Rover’s sales output of 51,000 units in America also last year
The 2017 Jaguar F-Pace underpins the BMW 3-series which has been competing head-on with the Jaguar XE and the next-generation mid-size XF.