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If you’d said when I first<br />
THE CHIEF ENGINEER started at <strong>Jaguar</strong> 25 years<br />
GRAHAM WILKINS – E-PACE ago that I’d be the Chief<br />
CHIEF PRODUCT ENGINEER Programme Engineer for a<br />
performance SUV like this,<br />
I’d have thought you were<br />
crazy. But I knew that if we were really going<br />
to break the mould and challenge the notions<br />
of what a <strong>Jaguar</strong> could or should be, I’d need<br />
a young and very talented team around me.<br />
That’s what I had. And throughout this project<br />
we just tried to think about things differently.<br />
It’s the job I’ve always wanted.<br />
When we started, we realised that many<br />
customers want a car that makes them feel<br />
the way a sports car does, but their life stage<br />
or lifestyle choice means they need at least<br />
four seats and plenty of space. So we started<br />
talking about a sports car you could use every<br />
day. We wanted to deliver the ultimate balance<br />
between beauty and practicality.<br />
I believe we’ve struck that balance. To me,<br />
the packaging of the car is just as good as the<br />
exterior design. If you look at the interior,<br />
there’s huge attention to detail around the<br />
stowage in the car. <strong>The</strong>re are some really<br />
clever features in the cubby box between<br />
the front seats for example, and in the doors,<br />
the glove box and the boot to make sure the<br />
car is very usable.<br />
Of course we’ve been able to access the<br />
technology from our sister brand Land Rover,<br />
but we’ve tuned it differently for a <strong>Jaguar</strong>. In<br />
the types of conditions you might want to use<br />
your <strong>Jaguar</strong> in, like wet grass, in snow or on<br />
ice, it’s absolutely capable.<br />
I believe that you’ll buy a car once because<br />
of the way it looks, but you’ll come back for<br />
another if you feel like it’s met all your needs,<br />
and even anticipated some you didn’t expect.<br />
For me the E-PACE does this, and I’m sure we’ll<br />
get a lot of loyal, repeat customers.<br />
“A BALANCE BETWEEN<br />
BEAUTY AND PRACTICALITY”<br />
JAGUAR-TUNED<br />
PERFORMANCE<br />
• Intuitive All Wheel<br />
Drive<br />
• Low Friction Launch<br />
• All Surface Progress<br />
Control<br />
• Active Driveline for<br />
increased agility<br />
• Fully independent<br />
suspension<br />
• Optional Adaptive<br />
Dynamics system<br />
• Sophisticated multilink<br />
rear suspension<br />
• Torque Vectoring<br />
for sharper turning<br />
• 1,800kg towing<br />
capacity<br />
22 THE JAGUAR
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