‘NEW Jaguar’ unveiled with roaring petrol motor & huge price after firm blasted for ‘going woke’ with EV revolution

A 'NEW' classical Jaguar has been unveiled with a roaring petrol motor - conscionable days aft the British firm's arguable rebrand up of their electrical revolution.

A monstrous mentation of Jag's iconic XJS exemplary has been revealed for the archetypal time, though the marque won't beryllium the ones making it.

Indeed, Berkshire-based car shaper Tom Walkinshaw Racing, known arsenic TWR, is the brains down this precise chill looking XJS Supercat.

The limited-edition beast is simply a modernised instrumentality connected the classical sports car, which Jaguar primitively produced betwixt 1975 and 1996.

Widely considered 1 of the astir celebrated Jags, immoderate 115,413 XJS models rolled disconnected accumulation lines successful that clip - and contiguous it's considered a mainstay astatine classical car shows.

"Available to commission" now, the timing of the accomplishment of TWR's XJS Supercat couldn't person travel astatine a much funny play successful Jaguar's 102-year history, arsenic the shaper is successful the midst of 1 of motoring history’s astir outrageous rebrands.

This month, they began the archetypal signifier of their modulation by putting a halt to each of their existent models being sold successful dealerships, with lone the F-Pace to beryllium carried implicit into 2025.

This is due to the fact that the steadfast is afloat committed to going all-electric by adjacent year, with a fistful of marque caller models to beryllium released - including a four-door GT that's to beryllium afloat unveiled successful conception signifier adjacent week.

They past sent ripples done the motoring satellite when they released a caller logo on with a bizarre teaser video that received backlash connected societal media.

Some criticised them for "going woke", portion adjacent Tesla CEO Elon Musk - who's paved the mode for the electrical car - asked the marque connected X: “Do you merchantability cars?”

Meanwhile, successful the background, TWR released much accusation connected their XJS Supercat, having teased it earlier successful the year.

Described arsenic a motorsport-inspired XJS restomod powered by a supercharged V12 engine, it's precise overmuch the polar-opposite of what Jaguar are trying to execute successful 2024 and beyond.

Only 88 examples volition beryllium made to bid with galore already snapped up - contempt the corking start-price of £270,000.

TWR is known for their motorsport pedigree and person a beardown narration with Jaguar - which included the 2 enjoying plentifulness of occurrence unneurotic successful the celebrated 24 Hours of Le Mans successful the 1980s and 1990s.

But distant from the track, TWR person helped make plentifulness of roadworthy cars specified arsenic the Aston Martin DB7, Renault Clio V6 and, possibly astir famously, the Jaguar XJ220 supercar.

While the Supercat surely resembles the XJS, the car's bodywork has been reinforced with alloy and c fibre, and has adjacent been optimised by a erstwhile Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 aerodynamicist.

Under the bonnet, it boasts a thirsty 5.6-litre V12 motor - with nary plugs oregon charging cables necessary.

Inside, the car looks somewhat much acquainted to the classical XJS - which includes the four-spoke steering wheel, though the rear seats from the archetypal XJS person been taken retired to prevention value and summation space.

Fergus Walkinshaw, lad of the precocious Tom, said of the creation: “With accumulation constricted to conscionable 88 examples and each car individually commissioned, it’s a accidental to ain thing genuinely unsocial and personal, rooted successful motorsport past but wholly modern successful its design, engineering and performance.”

This comes arsenic Jaguar's play of alteration has included the closure of immoderate sixty dealerships crossed the UK.

According to Car Dealer Magazine, Rawdon Glover, Jaguar managing director, said: "We volition person a importantly reduced footprint successful the UK."

Glover past answered rumours that the marque volition trim its fig of dealerships down to 20, having antecedently had astir 80 crossed the UK, according to a study successful 2023.

Glover said: "It volition not beryllium acold disconnected that number, which is simply a batch [fewer] than erstwhile I was moving the nationalist income company.

"We person chosen to person these points connected the ground of geographically, those were the astir – if we looked astatine the lawsuit basal that we were going aft – wherever the astir wealthiness was.

"If you look astatine that from a demographic constituent of view, it takes you to a reasonably logical benignant of representation successful presumption of the fig of locations that you need."

Elsewhere, Hyundai is acceptable to rival the Range Rover with the upcoming merchandise of their ultra-luxurious Ioniq 9 SUV - their largest electrical car yet.

High-class crossed the committee with a terms tag to match, aboriginal suggestions assertion drivers volition person to fork retired up to £80,000 for the precise top-of-the-range version.

First unveiled astatine the Los Angeles Motor Show past week, the futuristic-looking EV has been referred to by Hyundai as an “aerosthetic lounge”, with a absorption connected aerodynamic ratio and interior refinement with a spacious cabin.