Jaguar is hatching a bold new plan. It’s no secret that a raft of new and exciting big cat models is on the way – but the greatest surprise is yet to come.
The manufacturer has dropped its biggest hint yet that a premium hatchback, conceived to go head-to-head with the BMW 1-Series, Volkswagen Golf and Audi A3 is on the way.
We’ve told you that Jaguar is currently working on a BMW 3-Series rival, a crossover, the F-Type two-seater roadster and a possible production version of the C-X75. But the news that a hatchback could be added to the list comes as a real shock.
It has been widely reported that Adrian Hallmark, Jaguar’s global brand director, has drawn up a wish-list, along with other bosses, for the firm’s future.
He said: “We won’t have a 1-Series-sized car for five to 10 years, but we’re working on some compelling alternative bodystyles that are anti-German luxury car establishment.”
Our exclusive images show how the smallest Jag could look. It’s some way away from production, and although the compact five-door body is a departure, the philosophy behind it sticks closely to the brand’s core values. Hallmark confirmed: “If we go into the smaller car market, we want to build elegant models with great technology that give a sense of occasion and position us above the competition.”
Power is likely to come from a pair of turbocharged four-cylinder engines – one petrol, one diesel – while the underpinnings will be borrowed from the Range Rover Evoque. But the car will be front-wheel-drive only, to cut weight, complexity and cost. Prices are expected to start at £20,000.
Before that, a revised XF and an XF estate are due later this year, while design work on the next generation XF and XK, set for 2014, is underway. There’s even talk of an XJ coupé, and a shooting brake based on the next XF.
One thing’s for sure: with new owner Tata’s backing, it’s going to be a busy few years for the brand.
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AE's photoshop skills get worse and more desperate every day.....
on top of that they think every new car in the world will just nick bits off bigger cars and their design language won't have evolved one bit in 10 years.
Errr does this deserve more than an errr?
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Tommy, I think you're being a bit of a douche...
For a start, what's wrong with the images? You don't elaborate, which makes me think you're picking on the magazine with no real basis or choosing not to be specific in order to over inflate the skills we're supposed to think you have.
Secondly, whoever said they were AE images? The article refers to 'our images' because they're exclusively reproduced in the publication, not because they were originated in house.
Thirdly, if there was a 'fault' with the images they'll have been hand-drawn then scanned in so it's not necessarily the artist's Photoshop skills that are 'flawed' anyway. Furthermore, the images aren't designed to be an exact prediction, merely an example based on current Jaguar design trends.
Desperate? Not really... it's the publication's job to make predictions and, as a magazine editor myself, I for one understand that the publication has to have some means of illustrating the news of the forthcoming model, even if it is an artist's impression instead of a photograph.
Personally I think an image like those shown above is clearer and more meaningful than a grainy photograph of a heavily disguised mule car taken from afar... you can hardly tell what vehicles in those shots look like.
The rear end does look a bit Peugeot 307/308
I think the vehicle designers have lost their flair with the latest batch of rear end designs. All the same and boring - head on not too shabby but from the rear ugh!!
IMO this one beats all hatchback rivals, makes the 1 Series resemble an ugly duck (I don't like BMW's new styling anyway) and makes the Audi A3 look boring. Sorry Lexus, but this is what your CT-200 should have looked like.
I think it looks great....good work !
Breaking News
Jaguar are to produce a car
It will look like a Jag
It will drive like a Jag
Here's a picture of a car that looks like a jag
People fawn over it - It's a cartoon mock up - Why?
A/E always try to scoop what a car might look like (See the Golf VII story, Jag 3-Series story and many others.) Let's wait and see what it really looks like b4 we get excited.
Calm down everyone
Is that tail a rather unsuccessful marriage between a Peugeot 308 and a Lexus CT-200h?
PLEASE! Don't dilute the Jaguar brand with this feeble attempt at being an up-market Astra. If the public should want an ordinary (and ugly) car, we'd simply buy the Focus.
Is that tail a rather unsuccessful marriage between a Peugeot 308 and a Lexus CT-200h?
As an ex Austin Motor Company and Jaguar BMH man of the old days with Alan Sheppard & Co I find the design lines perfectly OK and a very refreshing and heartening step in the right direction.
William Lyons - Mike Hawthorne - Lofty England - Ian Appleyard - would all have loved this one!
Acid Test?
Yes - I would buy one provided it had an appropiate British design interior, Connolly leather and an optional modern economical and punchy diesel similar to those 2.0 litre units from BMW in Steyr - who do a great job developing and manufacturing these units incidentally - with extremely useful high torque and refinement.
As I said designwise it is certainly a step in the right direction and Yes - Jaguar does need a premium model range in this market category here in Europe and in China!
Only thing is it must come quickly - 2014 seems too far off in these fast changing modern times.
Over to you Jaguar.........................we are waiting
This story reminds me of the tactic used by the American motorpress for years. Whenever a circulation burst was needed, the auto mags would draw up a nifty illustration based on nothing but their speculation, pop it on the cover, and headline it, "Is This the Next Corvette?" Invariably, it wasn't.
Please, Autoexpress, if you're daydreaming, don't tease it with a headline that says you know something that you really don't. We can wait until there's really something to see. When that happens, show it. You get so many real scoops. Don't dilute your brand with fictional ones.
Copyman313 I quite agree, this is just like the days of MG Rover when AE insisted on drip feeding hideous photoshopped images to to the world that had neither anything to do with MGR or anything in fact to do with nice car design. If they are going to do a photoshop at least make the front and back pics look like they could possibly be even from the same car. I think they believe doing it in a hideous colour makes it seem more genuine? If I had a Jaguar showroom and a customer came in and attempted to order a Jaguar in that colour, I would show them my boot and then the door...
I think its a great idea Jaaaaag makes some more entry level cars, BMW has managed to maintain their premium image whilst stretching down into this segment.
I would personally love to see some other Jag alternatives than just big Exec wagons.
I would personally be really keen on a mid-range sports car, something of the boxster sort of size but taking in all of Jaguars racing heritage and paying homage to some of the incredible sports cars they have made in the past, E Type springs to mind.
As for AE photoshop work, I always think they are off a very high standard and this one is no exception.
Is that tail a rather unsuccessful marriage between a Peugeot 308 and a Lexus CT-200h?
Does anyone else think that Jaguar has lost its design flair?
They seem to be in a time warp.
Different doesn't mean stylish.
Just look at what Chris Bangle did to the 3 series.
I for one won't be saving my hard earned cash to spend on this pig with lipstick.
Very, very well said LandRoverForever, I get very frustrated with the same old unimaginative drivel posted by a small but vocal group on these pages. The same names crop up time and again, trumpeting their 'Photoshopping' dogma and it is time to make a stand. Guys, If you don't like and respect what Auto Express are trying to do within these pages and also in the magazine, don't buy it and go post somewhere else. It's called 'Trolling' and this isn't the place for it.
Some of us, such as the esteemed LandRoverForever and vandenplas4litre and myself, actually take the trouble to think about what we are going to post before we post it, and try to make what we write both informative and entertaining. Sure, we may not always agree with the article upon which we are commenting, but the criticism is usually constructive and to the point.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Auto Express for providing these pages, for FREE I might add, and for all the hard work their staff and Journo's put into them. Your efforts are very much appreciated by the majority here... ;)
Reasoned debate is healthy, trolling is counterproductive so don't do it...
Is that tail a rather unsuccessful marriage between a Peugeot 308 and a Lexus CT-200h?
Lovely, Get it into production ASAP!
I am losing patience and faith in AutoExpress. They are forever putting out these spurious made-up images of cars that 'might' be built. More importantly however, articles like this one contradict themselves. I quote from the headline:- 'Jaguar's sensational new hatchback has BMW in sight - the firm's smallest-ever car to start from £20,000 due out in 2014.
Now let's quote Jaguar's Global Brand Director Adrian Hallmark, again lifted from the article:- 'He said: “We won’t have a 1-Series-sized car for five to 10 years, but we’re working on some compelling alternative body styles that are anti-German luxury car establishment".'
It is 2011 now. 2014 is 3 years away. '5-10 years' equates as between 2016 and 2021...this chap and AE cannot both be right.
The other quote from the end of the article is as follows:- 'Before that, a revised XF and an XF estate are due later this year, while design work on the next generation XF and XK, set for 2014, is under way. There’s even talk of an XJ coupé, and a shooting brake based on the next XF'.
Please be advised that in AE's 'Coming Soon' section that appears mid-way through each magazine, usually between pages 45 and 55, the XF update was long quoted as 2010, already outdated. More importantly though, whereas the above quote states:- 'There’s even talk of an XJ coupé', that same section has long stated that it is due in 2011. How can a car be 'coming soon' when the same journal then says it is talk?
The Coming Soon section also states that 2012 will see the new X-type replacement. Having emailed AE I can tell you that this only refers to a possible concept. I think AutoCar had a similar article recently on the X-type replacement quoting a senior Jaguar figure as stating that only preliminary work has been undertaken and that it would be unlikely to reach the market before either 2014 or 2015.
I guess one makes one's own mind up, but if I read that a model is due in a certain year (sometimes predicted more accurately such as 'spring', ''March' or 'late' 2011) then I expect that to happen, and not just be a first concept, which I think is misleading. On the whole one can glean some sense of where Jaguar is heading and what may be coming but I would read between the lines and not take things like this article too literally.
Take a look at the rear end of an XJ for the answer to that. The rear of the XJ is not my favourite piece of Jag styling, I have to admit...
Sorry people, but i have to agree with tommy060289 on 9 February, 2011,....Just look elsewhere on the page and you will see the similarity with other "New Exclusive....."motors coming out of the woodwork........... 6:37pmhttp://www.autoexpress.co.... .......Having said that, i understand manufacturers jumping on the hatchback market in the UK...It must be the best segment of the market to break into, according to sales figures.... Lets hope that Jaguars' owners dont cheapen the marque for an increase in sales.That would be a shame!!
If it looks anything remotley like that I'd be impressed. There isnt many good looking hatchs for sale at the min, Alfas (and mine) Giuletta, the new Megane coupe and Astra, thats about it. the A3, Golf and 1 series are just bland and boring so something like this is needed to shake it up a little.
As for diluting the brand, introducing a hatch does not dilute anything if it is done correctly. Thats like saying Rolls Royce doing a coupe would dilute the brand. As if!!
I'm sure AE will still say the Golf is the best hatch even though in reality its not even top 5 any more.
@toycollecor, no I think Jag are one of the only firms making good looking cars today, especially when compared to the raft of bland boring horrible german pap we have to suffer on our motorways every day.
I am losing patience and faith in AutoExpress. They are forever putting out these spurious made-up images of cars that 'might' be built. More importantly however, articles like this one contradict themselves. I quote from the headline:- 'Jaguar's sensational new hatchback has BMW in sight - the firm's smallest-ever car to start from £20,000 due out in 2014.
Now let's quote Jaguar's Global Brand Director Adrian Hallmark, again lifted from the article:- 'He said: “We won’t have a 1-Series-sized car for five to 10 years, but we’re working on some compelling alternative body styles that are anti-German luxury car establishment".'
It is 2011 now. 2014 is 3 years away. '5-10 years' equates as between 2016 and 2021...this chap and AE cannot both be right.
The other quote from the end of the article is as follows:- 'Before that, a revised XF and an XF estate are due later this year, while design work on the next generation XF and XK, set for 2014, is under way. There’s even talk of an XJ coupé, and a shooting brake based on the next XF'.
Please be advised that in AE's 'Coming Soon' section that appears mid-way through each magazine, usually between pages 45 and 55, the XF update was long quoted as 2010, already outdated. More importantly though, whereas the above quote states:- 'There’s even talk of an XJ coupé', that same section has long stated that it is due in 2011. How can a car be 'coming soon' when the same journal then says it is talk?
The Coming Soon section also states that 2012 will see the new X-type replacement. Having emailed AE I can tell you that this only refers to a possible concept. I think AutoCar had a similar article recently on the X-type replacement quoting a senior Jaguar figure as stating that only preliminary work has been undertaken and that it would be unlikely to reach the market before either 2014 or 2015.
I guess one makes one's own mind up, but if I read that a model is due in a certain year (sometimes predicted more accurately such as 'spring', ''March' or 'late' 2011) then I expect that to happen, and not just be a first concept, which I think is misleading. On the whole one can glean some sense of where Jaguar is heading and what may be coming but I would read between the lines and not take things like this article too literally.
I must say I get fed upwith cars that lack coherant design . A car should look right from every angle most cars seem to be a front sides and back blended together at the corners or just plain ridiculous most of them look like stylised computer mice The Alfa 156 is illustrates my point the car appears to be designed as a whole by somebody that knew what they were doing The previous Mazda six also looks good. I also hate the way car brand designs are melded the Bentley looks to much like an AudI . Ford and jaguar to similar . Citroen styling so dilutted there is no point in buying one.
Hi i owned 2 x types the 2ltr deisel and a 2.2 6 speed manual. Loved both but was very let down by them discontinuing the models, also my clutch went with under 20000 miles on the clock, the handling in the snow was also very unsafe.The new cars front end looks like a seat leon.
Please, please, please AE, can you fix the 'refresh/repost' bug!!! And why is it we have to login every time we post? A better option would be a proper forum methinks, there is certainly enough traffic on here to warrant one...
Looks great and would sell now, the 35% aspect ratio of the tyres suggests a very hard ride, not Jag comfort which is expected by those downsizing If they can bring it to the market place with all the usual extras in the price of 20k+, including adjustable dampers, then they have a winner. Here is one BMW 1 owner who would not miss the rock hard ride of the runflats, but I cannot wait until 2014 maybe sometime never.
Oh no front wheel drive, it will be no contest with BMW's 1 series if is front wheel drive. What a waste of time. Just like the dreadfull X type.
Its quite an expensive price for such a small car. I think they really needed to concentrate on a Daimler XJ as the ultimate luxury Jag competing with rolls Ghost and Bentley Muslanne. its the only thing i haven't heard of from Jaguar other than this high volume based production they pushing towards. lets hope they maintain the exclusive image they have made and and not become a car for hire and rental firms. As for this image AE have done worser ones! you might as well not show us the image but just give us a few paragraphs about it and let us decide what it could look like. no doubt there will be a R-type sports version. Can't wait for the x-type replacement, saving up now.
deprince10 - I have an X-Type and it's s-h-i-t hot awesome. People check it out and it stands out in the car park. You owned one? The 1 series maybe good to chuck about but who actually wants to be seen dead in one?
Jaguar's hatchback idea will be nothing like the pictures anyway, if it ever happens, and i'm sure AE will still be loving the Golf, possibly the dullest new car you can buy.
Chrysler PT Cruiser, anyone?
...how wound up and aggressive people get on this site!
Basically, if Jag made a decent 1 series competitor, I'd consider it, and wouldn't take too much notice of the knocked-up pictures above - which don't look too amateur compared to some of Autocar's efforts over the years!
That said, if the rear of the production car ended up looking like the pictures, I wouldn't buy it!
Super! I hope that the platform will be based on the best in the world, Ford.
WHEW, listen to the feathers flying, all in the name of mere individual opinion. Well, rabbit on some of you.
Is there some [real] difference between an 'artist's impression. and something 'photo shopped'?? My ignorant curiosity.
Everybody needs to bust into another niche, or make one where its NOT needed......hell check BMW !!! So why not Jaguar with a small car. And by the way, you may get [small!] kids in the back of a 3 series, but NO ADULTS [a smidgeon of legroom might just help] so how the hell does it earn the name of a family car???
You'd pick this new jobbie by the front [from these pics], but hell anyone with a memory - all you guys - will remember how Jaguar ABSOLUTELY aborted the concept-to-reality with the XF. Was that the biggest disappointment ever, the year that car was released???? This one has a mish-mash of current Jaguar cue's [aaah sorry, 'core values'] so wont be hard to spot from the front, and doesnt look too bad for it, but the rear..........START AGAIN Jag!! Could be any wannabe from Korea, other than the damn stupid way they put the leaper on the boot, leaping into the hedgerows!! Get real Jaguar, any Jaguar from the past, if you want design history etc etc had a growler on the grille, AND bootlid.
If it gets a diesel, it will need to be sensational because new new new diesels still sound like washing machines full of nuts and bolts. Stand next to a MB, or Volvo diesel.
Wonder what the catfights will be like on here when we actually see some more real-ish pics.
Cheers, AE
it looks a low slung car , i dont think it would up the local lanes and down the bumpy drive to the rear padock
Think I may have commented on this stream before but I have doubts whether there is any truth to this article and the model it refers to. I could be wrong, but - see article in the following link. I guess time will tell, but they cannot both be right
http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/...
No mention of a three-cylinder hybrid, then? Which makes me think that there are those that would like people to think they know, and those who know... ;-)
Mm.. looks like the Lexus CT 200h 5 door hatch with a touch of Renault Megane on the rear. Can't say I'm taken with a 5 door Focus challenger with a Jag badge on it.
I love Jaguar design. They stand for classic, premium and usually something different. Please don't produce this awful hatchback!
......... i hate it
It's not possible to make a car that size with Jaguar levels of comfort and handling. Presumably the picture started off as an XF and got morphed. The DVLA has that reg down as a 3 litre diesel registered in September 2010.l
On the rear it looks like a Peugeot to me.
Depp500. If this car has anything to do with Ford I for one will never buy it. There is enough Ford crap on the road without spoiling the quality of a car manufacturer like Jag!
but I guess it will have max 15" wheels and 10cm more off ground AND thats spoiled already! :(
thats a horrible design also colour makes it look no better
hot hatch eating too many burgers me thinks
When I was a teenager and you could buy an E-Type for £350 ,despite the price Jaguar really did build the best cars in the world. I've still yet to find a saloon car that was as quiet at 100mph and handled as well as the Double Bulkhead Series 1 XJ6. The E-Type along with most Jags had a magic carpet ride and was cheap to run spares wise. I was very very lucky to experience the pinnacle of real Browns Lane built Jaguar. Their open days showed how proud they were of the product. Can we reach this level of engineering success again? I doubt it. But we miss something very important in that pedigree is so important. We have lost so much and gained so little in the rush for corporate greed. The modern Jags have no character. Borrowing parts and chassis from others may be cheap but it does not fool anyone who experienced real Jags. I wish we could bring it all back. It would be unbeatable.
When I was a teenager and you could buy an E-Type for £350 ,despite the price Jaguar really did build the best cars in the world. I've still yet to find a saloon car that was as quiet at 100mph and handled as well as the Double Bulkhead Series 1 XJ6. The E-Type along with most Jags had a magic carpet ride and was cheap to run spares wise. I was very very lucky to experience the pinnacle of real Browns Lane built Jaguar. Their open days showed how proud they were of the product. Can we reach this level of engineering success again? I doubt it. But we miss something very important in that pedigree is so important. We have lost so much and gained so little in the rush for corporate greed. The modern Jags have no character. Borrowing parts and chassis from others may be cheap but it does not fool anyone who experienced real Jags. I wish we could bring it all back. It would be unbeatable.
Let it wear the Rover badge, definately not a Jaguar.
Even if it they made it, it wouldn't look like the concept, but more dull. They should not make it at bmw's car would be so much better, better engine, better interior, better drive, much better residuals.
I mean, who would buy a jag over a Mercedes or a BMW?
NO WAY... ! it's much better looking than a BMW or Audi.. though I wouldn't go by those pics the car will probably look totally different if Jaguar decide to build it? I hope they do.. done right it's a money spinner and few less English pounds exported to BMW, Audi and the Germany economy
NO WAY... ! it's much better looking than a BMW or Audi.. though I wouldn't go by those pics the car will probably look totally different if Jaguar decide to build it? I hope they do.. done right it's a money spinner and few less English pounds exported to BMW, Audi and the Germany economy
is all it is ... COME ON GET ON WITH IT! Given good build quality and finish even a shoe box will sell as proven by the VW Golf...