Jaguar's all new SUV E-Pace to follow F-Pace launch

The Jaguar F-Pace that is awaiting launch will be followed by a smaller SUV built on a different platform. The machine is called the E-Pace. It is part of Jaguar's plan to play catch-up on the global crossover craze and follows shortly after the already-testing F-Pace, originally, the C-X17 concept car. The F-Pace will be an expensive SUV and will go up against the BMW X3 and Mercedes GLC.

The projections suggest that Jaguar's second crossover model should generate enough volume to make a serious impact on the bottom line. Especially as the engineering profile would put it on equal footing with the Range Rover Evoque, helping curb development and production costs.

The F-pace employs the British carmaker's aluminium intensive XE platform and would have proved to be too expensive for the E-Pace as it would have sent the development cost through the roof. And that would really hurt the volume. Instead Jaguar has gone for Land Rover's old and trustworthy D8 platform originally underpinned on the Freelander2. The D8 is a low cost steel structure and is a heavily modified version of Ford's age old C/D Platform.

E-Pace is still in its nascent stage and this configuration could put it close to the Evoque and consequently the F-Pace.