What is it?
The Jaguar C-X75 concept rocked the recent Paris motor show. According to Nigel Taylor, the concept's lead engineer, C-X75 was spun off Jaguar's Limo-Green hybrid saloon project, as a kind of skunk-works job.
The result was C-X75, a car with a remarkably low weight of 1350kg and consequent spectacular performance: 0-62 mph in 3.4 seconds, 0-100 mph in 5.5 seconds, 0-300km/h (186 mph) in 15.7 seconds, and a top speed of 330km/h (205 mph).
Apart from its wonderful shape – which brilliantly combines 2015 modernity with surfaces and proportions that could only be from Jaguar – the C-X75's twin showpieces are tiny turbines, made in Worcestershire by Bladon Jets, but unlike jet cars of the past they don't drive the wheels. Instead, they run tiny, fist-sized generators to make electrical power for what is actually a four-motor, four-wheel drive electric car.
The car has an electric-only range just short of 70 miles. With this and the 60-litre diesel fuel tank, it has a 560-mile range – an average of under 30mpg. These are extraordinary, rule-changing figures for a car with 778bhp and 1180 lb ft of torque on tap.
What’s it like?
For all its exotic nature, the C-X75 is relatively simple in concept. It is smaller and lower than most supercars of its awesome potential, yet it has generous conventionally hinged doors, sensibly sized windows, reasonable rear vision and a roomy cabin.
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BulletTrainMcKane
Re: Jaguar C-X75
Atomic batteries to power...turbines to speed...
mantaray
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.....Warp factor 1 Mr Sulu! lol
sputnik
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A real innovation, I do hope they can produce it? The styling of the C-X75 is clearly Jaguar, some of it's lines remind me of the classic one-off XJ13.
SirSidneyRuffdiamond
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Incredible design and ground-breaking new tech that promises much for the future.
I read when news of the C-X75 first hit that jaguar might make it ... 'the concept car we simply have to build' or something similar. Can't say I'm surprised but your article suggests that it will not happen. One thing Jag must learn is that they show-cased many concepts in past years but nothing ever seemed to come of them. Soemtimes it's good to actually 'do it'.
Anyway I'm a big Jag fan and am so pleased they got the backing. Clearly they have the talent. Just a shame one of the filthy rich British companies and/or individuals didn't stump up the paltry £1 billion to buy JLR and set it free on the road to success, and profit. So few are worth their salt in today's world and seek to make nothing, which is why Britain's future is not very rosey. Jaguar is an exception!
thebaldgit
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If Jaguar are unable to build this car with its current propulsion systems, I hope they still build it with a different engine, obviously not with a Mini WRC engine of course.
Peter Cavellini
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So it'll be the XJ then?,because this concept doesn't have an ounce of Jag-ness about it!,the saloon will be the real money maker, car's with Thunderbirds and Joe90 propulsion systems are too out there,and i've said before, why not produce affordable, ultra clean car's for the masses especially in this time of austerity, surely that's not beyond making profit, is it?.
bentleyboy
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Oh for goodness sake, just build it.
shortbread
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Its a real shame that Jaguar has not made any real effort for the British public to view this in metal.
jmd67
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@Peter Cavellini. What are you on about? There are huge dollops of old Jaguarness all over this. The back window looks like it's been lifted straight from an E-Type. The overall shape is XJ13 (rear haunches, rear lights in particular). The grille is a cracking combination of the old oval and the new rectangle (which is itself 60's Jag). It's achingly beautiful and shows that the guys in charge of Jag design are bang on the money (as an aside, the original MB CLS was seen as 'Mercedes doing a Jaguar' but do you think someone like Callum would have churned out anything remotely like the monstrosity that is the new CLS?). No chance. These guys have got real taste and they're WAY ahead of the Germans again.
WFC Holden
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[quote bentleyboy]For goodness sake, just build it.[/quote]
Oh grow up, for goodness' sake.
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