Jaguar Land Rover ran a "Spirit of Jaguar" testing exercise in 2021 to define the dynamic character for its all-electric X900, led by chief engineer for the project Jon Darlington.
Darlington's team drove classic Jaguars from the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust at JLR's Gaydon proving ground, using E-Type roadsters and XJ saloons as reference vehicles. The exercise, done in lieu of preliminary competitor benchmarking, focused on translating visual presence, driving position, first 50-yard impressions, tactile control feel and ride-and-handling fundamentals into development targets.
The X900 is technically novel and was designed to inherit nothing material from previous Jaguar models, so Jaguar Land Rover used the exercise to deliberately engineer "Jaguarness" into the car's design and dynamics. The official model name remains unconfirmed ahead of a September reveal.
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