JAGUAR’S NEW XE ROADSTER
Jaguar’s new XE auto Aboriginal ancestor for new two-seater drop-top is spied testing abreast to Jaguar’s Coventry base
This is the car we accept all been cat-and-mouse for – it’s Jaguar’s much-rumoured baby two-seater roadster. And we’ve bent the aboriginal ancestor testing abreast to the Big Cat’s Coventry home.
The new model, codenamed XE, will sit below the accepted XK in the firm’s agency and is anticipation of as a airy almsman to the allegorical E-Type. Aimed at burglary sales from Porsche, it will backpack a amount tag about amid the Boxster and 911, boasting a bunched body, two seats and a folding canvas roof. It will be one of Jaguar’s better sellers in Europe, the US and the Far East.
Underneath the derma lies a adapted rear-wheel drive aluminium anatomy from the XK, with a abundant beneath wheelbase – something that is accessible from the XK-based ancestor bent in these pictures abreast to Jaguar’s Whitley engineering centre.
Details surrounding engines are limited, but it’s accepted that the XE will affection a ambit of new V6 units, absorbed up to the company’s six-speed automated gearbox. As able-bodied as top achievement supercharged R versions, there’s a actual audible achievability that diesels will affection too.
Insiders accept appear that Jaguar is set to yield the wraps off a abstraction for the new XE in aboriginal 2012 – potentially at the Geneva Motor Show – while sales of the new archetypal will alpha in 2013 with a amount tag amid £40,000 and £50,000.
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