New Jaguar GT heads to the Nürburgring: 1000bhp production car goes performance testing
All-electric Jaguar continues its testing ahead of its 2027 launch
The new Jaguar electric car is back out testing, this time getting its miles in at the Nürburgring as the engineering team charged with bringing the company’s all-electric car to market continue to define what Jaguar’s future products drive and feel like.
At around five metres in length, the four-door Type 00 (as it is for now known) saloon will form the basis for Jaguar’s reinvention as an all-electric brand, with a coupe-style SUV set to follow and, potentially, a two-door coupe if everything goes to plan. Not that this is a given considering the catastrophic fall in sales of premium electric vehicles.
The car was first ‘papped’ during cold weather systems testing in Sweden with Bosch, where the car’s drivetrain, braking, stability controls and everything else that works to keep it the right way up were being developed, tweaked, updated and recalibrated.
These latest images captured in and around the Nürburgring, show the four-door silhouette of Type 00 more clearly. And yes, that rear door opening does look suspiciously small and hint at suicide openings.
Built on a totally new 800-volt electric architecture called JEA, the new family of electric Jaguars will have a claimed range of around 500 miles with a sizable battery to provide it, circa 100 to 150kwh with today’s technology. The upshot of this is the Jaguar’s four-figure power output of around 1000bhp. Then again, don’t expect it to weigh much less than 2500kg.
Predictably, it’s also set to be crammed with a considerable amount of the latest tech such as virtual gearshifts. The latest software will also provide the broadest offering of driver modes, along with convenience features that you never thought you would need in a car. Or most likely will never use it.
You might also be aware that JLR is also about to launch its first all-electric Range Rover, and while you might expect the RR to feed the new Jaguar, it is our understanding that both cars not only utilise very bespoke technology from batteries and motors to software, but that the Jaguar will be far more advanced than the Range Rover and lead JLR’s electrification product offensive.
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The car is aimed at Bentley and Rolls Royce customers, although with starting prices planned to be ‘under £100,000’ it will significantly undercut any rival from Crewe or Goodwood. Scheduled to be revealed in production form in 2026 (with a near production ready vehicle set to shown later in 2025) theType 00 will go on sale as Jaguar’s first all-new electric car in 2027.
