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Electric Jaguar XJ
Say goodbye to the gas-powered Jaguar XJ and hello to the electric XJ. The British automaker took great pains to hide as much of the design of the upcoming EV, but this spy photo makes it clear that the vehicle continues the automaker's history of making sleek sedans.
The redesigned electric XJ will have all-wheel drive and electric motors in front and back. It's built on Jaguar Land Rover's Modular Longitudinal Architecture (MLA)platform, the underpinnings for EVs, plug-in hybrids, and mild hybrids that will be part of every Jag by 2025.
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One particularly interesting bit regarded the shooting brake, which Nurnberger said, "we sort of started it and then realized to make a really good shooting brake we had to do a lot more engineering." Thus, the long-roof Vanquish actually has a longer wheelbase than the rest of the cars. According to Nunberger, the rear of the car is taken from a modular platform and is essentially a rear of a Rapide that has been added on. Of course, that required total reengineering, retesting, as well as re-crashing to bring it to production......
What exactly does that mean? In short, driver and passengers are shielded from small arms and rifle fire thanks to steel and composite armor materials fitted into the doors, as well as ballistics grade glass for all the windows....
