Jaguar has unveiled its first ever
4X4 sports utility vehicle that is designed to woo more women customers.
At a cost of £38,000, the C-X17
will spearhead a new 'family' of smaller and more affordable luxury cars while
creating thousands of jobs in Britain.
Jaguar says the sleek family
off-roader is aimed primarily at 'school-run mums' and younger, more
cosmopolitan drivers in a direct challenge to BMW’s market-leading
3-series.
The car is furnished with a host of
state-of-the-art technologies and is even linked in to social networking sites
such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, allowing passengers to stay connected
on the move, 'flicking' information from seat to seat.
A prototype of the C-X17 was
unveiled today, on the eve of the Frankfurt motor show in Germany.
It will be just one of a new line of
cars – all based around the same hi-tech aluminium chassis, almost all of it
made from recycled metal.
The new
cars will be powered by a new generation of frugal 'green' 2.0 litre,
4-cylinder petrol and diesel engines to be built from 2015 at Jaguar Land
Rover’s brand new £355million engine plant now under construction in
Wolverhampton.
MY TAKE:
What a car, 4-cylinder. That means it runs as an SUV but conserves fuel as a Saloon. Just like the new Range Rover, no surprise its been built by them.
But for blistering
performance there will also be the choice of the existing 3.0-litre V6 used in
the new Jaguar F-Type sports car.
But at the price of £38,000, (N 9.5m) it's not a cheap ride in anyway and with no secondhand value, this car is certainly not for many Nigerians, not so soon anyway.
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