Jaguar Magazine BLOCKBUSTER – English
Im Fokus der Jaguar Magazine Ausgabe 02-2015: Kassenschlager aller Art. Unter anderem sprachen wir mit Tom Hiddleston, dem Star vieler Hollywood-Blockbuster (Avengers, Thor) und Gesicht der neuesten Werbekampagne von Jaguar. Mehr als ein Nebendarsteller – wir verraten welche Jaguar-Modelle in welchen Filmen eine Rolle spielen. Außerdem stellen wir in zwei exklusiven Fotoshootings den revolutionären F-PACE und die neue Familie der Jaguar-Limousinen vor.
Im Fokus der Jaguar Magazine Ausgabe 02-2015: Kassenschlager aller Art. Unter anderem sprachen wir mit Tom Hiddleston, dem Star vieler Hollywood-Blockbuster (Avengers, Thor) und Gesicht der neuesten Werbekampagne von Jaguar. Mehr als ein Nebendarsteller – wir verraten welche Jaguar-Modelle in welchen Filmen eine Rolle spielen. Außerdem stellen wir in zwei exklusiven Fotoshootings den revolutionären F-PACE und die neue Familie der Jaguar-Limousinen vor.
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The F-PACE isn‘t just about luxury car accoutrements and<br />
on road manners - it‘s safe too. This is largely thanks to innovative<br />
safety systems including Autonomous Emergency<br />
Braking, Driver Condition Monitoring and Reverse Traffic<br />
Detection with Blind Spot Monitor and Driver Condition<br />
Monitoring with Lane Keep Assist. It’s got real skills<br />
beyond the tarmac, as group leader for Off Road Capability,<br />
Jason Walters, explains: “The sweet spot we’ve achieved is<br />
saloon dynamics with a credible level of all surface capability.<br />
Typical surfaces like snow and ice and muddy fields <strong>–</strong> that’s<br />
where this car excels. Come winter, when those backroad<br />
surfaces are covered in ice, you can push on and the F-PACE<br />
is still rewarding. You won’t feel it wallowing around. You<br />
won’t lose that great <strong>Jaguar</strong> feeling.”<br />
Given <strong>Jaguar</strong>’s sister brand Land Rover’s experience<br />
in extremely challenging terrain, it comes as no<br />
surprise that the JLR engineering teams were<br />
always going to want the F-PACE to be more capable than a<br />
regular crossover. One example of how it does, is a<br />
special system called Adaptive Surface Response that<br />
assesses terrain and changes its settings accordingly, as<br />
Walters continues: “We’ve got a ‘Rain Snow Ice button’ on<br />
the central console you can press. If the snow’s two centimetres<br />
deep when you start off, the system will stay in ‘rain,<br />
snow and ice’ mode. We’re taking a team that’s spent<br />
15 years calibrating Land Rover products for differential<br />
control and applying some of that learning to a <strong>Jaguar</strong><br />
product with a bit of a twist. What you wouldn’t want to do<br />
is make a <strong>Jaguar</strong> that handles exactly like a Land Rover<br />
or a Range Rover. So you bias it more to the rear, to make it<br />
more sporty.”<br />
With a 80% aluminium body to ensure a lighter weight<br />
overall and outstanding dynamics, economy and emissions,<br />
plus a fantastic engine manufactured in JLR’s state-of-the-art<br />
new UK facility, the new F-PACE really does seem to<br />
have an awful lot going for it. As driveline specialist Alex<br />
Hall concludes: “We’ve taken a <strong>Jaguar</strong> to where a <strong>Jaguar</strong><br />
has never been.”<br />
All of which suggests you’ll be able to enjoy the F-PACE in<br />
a lot more interesting new destinations and on many more<br />
adventures than any other <strong>Jaguar</strong> in history. Blockbuster<br />
stuff indeed...<br />
Figures are for UK specification cars and all data is correct at time of publishing.<br />
THE <strong>BLOCKBUSTER</strong> ISSUE j 25
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