Driving Jaguar’s potent F-Pace SVR 575 Ultimate Edition SUV – one of just
60 as the last of the line Jaguar V8’s – Jaguar will navigate a new future
from January 1, all electric and reconfigured into an upper luxury range,
the Jaguar leaper badge gone, a whole new beginning after 90 years which
the company admits will lose up to 85 percent of its current customer base.
The 5-litre supercharged F-Pace SVR 575 Ultimate Edition a stunning SUV
and one that will become a collector’s item in time – super powerful, super
luxurious and the test car I’m driving in Sorrento yellow, super special –
hard to fault in performance, features, comfort, dynamics and price -
$182,000 far cheaper than a Range Rover Sport P530 and far more exciting
– the 5.0-litre V8 with 700Nm of torque and 8-speed automatic with steering
wheel shift paddles inspiring. A full gamut of active driver assist systems,
not intrusive, although the speed limit alert can become an annoyance. But
fabulous brakes which you need when you have a 2133kg steed with 0 to
100km/hour acceleration of just 4 seconds. This Jaguar F-Pace SVR 575
Ultimate Edition the final act in what has been a wonderful 90 years of
Jaguar grace and pace. I’m David Berthon