Entry-level Jaguar delayed

Bertone Jaguar B99 concept live in Geneva - 01.03.2011

Could debut in 2016 or 2017

Jaguar has announced plans to delay their entry-level model until the redesigned XF is launched in 2015.

Although a tad disappointing, the company's Global Brand Director, Adrian Hallmark, was afraid the car would have stolen sales from the current XF because they are both roughly the same size. To prevent the product over lap, the X-Type successor won't be available until an enlarged XF hits the market.

Thanks to the delay, Jaguar will have more time to refine the entry-level model which will hopefully pay big dividends when the car is launched in 2016 or 2017.

Note: Bertone Jaguar B99 concept pictured

Source: Autocar

Jaguar X-Type successor could be launched by 2015 - report
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EMBJATI85

we will never see it if the world is gonna end tomarow

May 20, 2011 1:24 pm

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MAB

And if the world doesn't end until 2012, we still wont get to see it. Ah well. It is a bit disappointing, but I get the reasoning and think this is a better plan. Although, they should think to release the new XT the year before the redesigned XF comes out, as they shouldnt have them on the same schedule and XF sales should be waining in the final year anyhow.

May 20, 2011 1:34 pm

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wcfuser14369

Shame Jaguar is sounding like it will take the route of copying the Germans and produing an upsized entry level model. The world wants smaller. Why not do something genuinely new?

May 20, 2011 3:01 pm

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zot959

Its not going to look anything like the Bertone in the photos so who cares. Most likely it will be just as ugly as the other Jaguar sedans.

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May 20, 2011 3:41 pm

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LokiMaky

your mum is ugly

November 11, 2011 2:26 am

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v6s_stink

That is one not so healthy or nice looking model in the Bertone. I don't get putting off the car that can produce so much volume and revitalize a shaky brand for enlarging an "in-betweener". Gasoline is not going to get cheaper and something about the size of the current 3 series is the new 5 series, which once was what the 3 series is now. The last couple of decades of continual up-sizing is just bound to be reversed.

May 20, 2011 5:59 pm

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archytype

For a concept car it is extremely beautiful, but a production model will likely lose all key features. It is abit small though. XF sales are hurting anyway b/c the car looks like a Ford.

May 21, 2011 4:50 am

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zot959

You are right the XF does look like a Ford that's why I dislike the new Jags.

May 21, 2011 6:29 am

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alessandro

Proportions are preserved thanks to Italians though. XF is already almost all 5m long like a bus - what an imagination of luxury. Tell to this Tata-guy that car is not precisely same thing as a train car from Victorian East Indian Company time, Nowadays cars are considerably smaller.

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May 21, 2011 9:38 am

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LokiMaky

you are talking crap

November 11, 2011 2:25 am

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