Indian group Tata, which owns the brand Jaguar Land Rover, the British company bosses have submitted a plan of development for the next few years. According to him, in the product line will be a new Jaguar car under the name XE.
Leaders Jaguar Land Rover Carl-Peter Forster and Ralph Specht said that the engineers will take to develop a new Jaguar sports car XE. The car, which will be the ideological successor to the XKE, whose debut took place almost half a century ago, will be built on an aluminum platform. In a power line will include Jaguar XE V-Twin gasoline, the atmospheric "eight" power of 385 and 5-liter engine with a supercharger, which develops 510 hp
Writes TopSpeed, it is possible that sports car with the Foggy Albion will be offered with hybrid power plant, which will include gasoline and electric motors and lithium-ion batteries.
Today, the British company is actively preparing for the production of the first ever Jaguar gibirdnogo car, which will be created following the example of the concept Limo-Green. It is assumed that the model will be equipped with 3-liter turbodiesel V6 engine and 48-horsepower electric motor. The basic equipment of the machine will receive an automatic eight-transmission company ZF.
New Jaguar XE as a concept will be shown at next year's International Motor Show in Geneva, and the serial modification of the model goes on sale in 2013. The first came on the market sports car in the body "roadster" and later Jaguar customers will be able to buy a car with a rigid fixed roof.