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it is the ipace quite possibly the most
significant car that Jaguar has produced
since the e-type what is it well it's an
all-electric SUV the world's first
properly credible rival to the Tesla
Model X and the Tesla Model S and it's
beaten the Germans to it if you're
British that warm fuzzy feeling you're
currently feeling in your stomach
that's called pride this is the Audi rs4
a traditional fast family wagon and this
is the ipace a not so traditional fast
family wagon now both of these cars cost
about 70 grand both do nought to 60 in
something starting with a 4 both have
near identical boot spaces and both just
happen to be painted in rather fetching
shades of Pharaoh and bull but the point
here is they don't look anything like
each other that's because when you don't
have to stuff a v6 twin-turbo engine
under the bonnet well you can squash the
bonnet up and then you can move the
front wheel forwards and then you can
create more interior space I'll be
honest the first time I saw these new
and daring proportions I was sick in my
mouth just a little bit but now I've had
time to digest them well I can honestly
say I really love it it's refreshing
it's different to everything out there
so here's the thing about V's they all
feel fundamentally similar to drive now
that's not necessarily a criticism it's
just an observation but when you strip
away all the vibrations all the engine
noise a gearbox to interact with any
sort of torque curve or turbo rush all
of that what you're left with is
something that feels quite homogeneous
don't get me wrong though the way this
car delivers its power is smooth it's
flat if I reach down here put it in
dynamic mode and give it the beans
if properly takes up grips and goes
unlike anything else but my point is in
the future manufacturers are going to
have to find new and exciting ways to
differentiate their products it can't
just be a stonking gearbox and a
loudspeaker exhaust as the Ferrari 812
will now demonstrate
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see what I mean just a word here for the
I paces interior because it's not as
self-consciously nonconformist as a
Tesla's you don't just have one massive
screen and to hell with distracting the
driver it's actually really nicely day
though lots of screens and look at this
actual buttons that you can push and
they work on novelty right now for the
road testy bit the thing to bear in mind
here is that this car weighs 2.1 tons
but its center of gravity is 130
millimeters lower than you get with an F
face what that means is when you
approach a corner you sense all that
mass you think it's going to wallow and
roll around and be really quite
atrocious but then you turn it in and it
isn't the body rolls a bit but then it
stays there the car controls its mass
really really nicely the steering is
good by any other Jaguar the brakes too
are strong all in all it's a really
really impressive package currently it
says we have 121 miles until we run out
of battery now I know that is enough for
what we need to do today for driving
around on these roads but hooning about
a little bit for getting into our hotel
later tonight it's plenty but still our
brain keeps telling me to stop prodding
the throttle you imbecile
you're going to leave us stranded now I
don't feel like that in petrol cars even
when I've got 50 20 30 miles left in a
tank
stressing me out clearly off-roading or
green laning as I think what I'm doing
right now is called isn't at all what
this car was designed for but you can
get surprisingly far with four-wheel
drive a boatload of torque and
self-raising suspension we're in the
off-road height right now and look we're
not scraping on anything I just don't
know where I am put it this way if your
commute is more than 200 miles then
probably not but then if your commute is
more than 200 miles you've got bigger
problems to worry about
however if you have off street parking a
charger at work or a public point nearby
then it might just work for you if it's
a hundred kilowatt rapid charger you'll
be topped up in about 45 minutes if it's
a seven kilowatt home charger it'll take
ten hours either way it will be cheaper
than filling out with petrol and then
there's the free congestion charge for
Londoners tax breaks and a four and a
half thousand pound government grant to
consider warning owning an eye pace may
involve maths because it starts at sixty
thousand pounds the eye pace doesn't
have the same social resonance as the
$35,000 Tesla Model 3 but it does still
represent a seismic shift that
established manufacturers like this are
now prepared to invest in proper
electric cars so this thing well it's as
much about future proofing the Jaguar
brand as it is turning a juicy profit
but come on let's not get too bogged
down in the business shall we because
it's still a car that still needs to be
fast at least a handle it needs to be
desirable and it needs to work and it
does terribly sorry petrol electricity's
arrived
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if you're a fan of electricity find out
what happened when we spent a day with
the new Tesla Model 3 or if you're sick
of it well you can watch us burning some
serious petrol in our drag race series
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