FIRST LOOK: Jaguar I-Pace | Top Gear 

Exactly

Yeah the big touchscreen in the front makes it look cheap

100% agree - I have never wanted an EV until this one!

Disliked just because of this punchline. All electric cars feel homogeneous bla bla bla, then this punchline, yea no.

@@NDakovic ew its you

Which means you wont hear your guests leaving with the borrowed oilpainting.

Very pretty interior. Too many buttons, but the leather is very nice.

joe fattal you mean the fact that it’s owned by Indians haha be proud.

Power Err what has that got to do with anything buddy other than Ratan Tata is one of the most humble people and best minds currently around that carries a massive legacy. Jaguar Is an English co there built and engineered in England you understand that is funded by An Indian Co. If you think that’s unusual in 2018 maybe you should read a bit more before posting silly childish comments.

Power Err I am an Indian and yes all credit goes to British engineers at Jaguar. Britishers should really be proud and I hope this car beats Model x in sales and ratings.

what car is completely made in a single country? I thought Tesla was closest, and they're only 90% or something?

fento r yeah this guy is really good

fento r agreed. Where tf is Harris

fento r this guy is much better than matt leblanc.

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Me too. But I don't like the price, the production numbers, worst efficiency of any EVs, slow charging speed (comparing to real competitors, Tesla) and the lack of rapid charging network which would give at least a decent rapid charging speed. The current 50 kW CCS is a snail for a 90 kWh battery.

MuitoDaora the glove box does not have a button for security reasons when you rent your TM3 out while you are not using it. Most cars spend 90% of their time parked. Tesla wants you to be able to send it out like a Uber when you do not need it, making you money. With a 20 year battery and about a million miles motor the wear and tear would be minimal.

David Beppler I know. What about the model S and X? It still opens with a button but technically can be locked. That was not my point.

MuitoDaora get a life looser

MuitoDaora I have no response. You did not make your point clear enough.

Its not simplistic when you have to touch a screen twice to perform a single function.

And it also goes against Jag's German rivals as well.

The I-PACE is quite a bit smaller than both the Model S and X. Size-wise, it's more comparable to a "SUV-ified" Model 3. The I-PACE doesn't really directly compare directly to any of the Teslas, it lies kinda in the middle of them all. So if the I-PACE is the better choice for you really depends on what you are looking for in a car, and the I-PACE seems to be a damn good one www.cars.com/research/compare/?acodes=USC80TSS011A0,USC80TSC024A0,USC70TSC031A0,USC90JAS031A0

And there will be never a 35k model 3!

The i-Pace actually has the longest wheelbase of all of them, and the combined head and leg room is, on paper, bigger than the S or the X. (Even the Model 3's head and legroom is bigger than the S and the X on paper). The S and the X are both wider tho' (The X is something like 7" wider than the Jag - even if you cut the X's mirrors off, you can't fit it through a 2m width restrictor)

Riggald Yep, so it makes sense to compare the I-PACE to a lot of different vehicles, as it doesn't really adhere to any traditional vehicle categories

Theta Tesla will let others manufacturers use their supercharger network with a subscription fee

Aw thanks hope you have a nice day as well

this has NO PLACE IN YT COMMENTS!! how dare you try and inject civility and niceness.....jerkoff! (now that's a proper YT comment)

Thanks ! you just put a smile on my face :) you`re awesome

S T U B B L Y you too

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I agree. That dude was born to be a Top Gear host.

I agree

No, then how will Carthrottle lives? Adnan will not allow it.

No we don't.

70 non programmable mechanical switches that will fail, compared to a tiny wiring loom with future proofed electronics and OTA flexibility...

Wayne Russell Dude not every function needs to be on a touchscreen. There are things which will never be updated in the life time of a car like hazard switch or glove box lever . These functions are better off with a dedicated button.

Wayne Russell ... In a Jaguar you can actually survive a crash and Jaguar has deals with Waymo hence it is gonna have a better Autonomous driving system.

haha, he even took his eyes off the road to press them... lucky buttons don't distract drivers tho

Ankit Panigrahi this car will not nearly match the safety levels of Tesla.

When you find out jaguar is owned by a Indian company.lol

nah. Jaguar is not in competition with the TM3. TM3 has 500,000 pre-orders. Wonder how many Jaguar Ipace has. I doubt it is more than a dozen.

David Beppler my point is they on purpose hated the TM3 and did a crap review but for this they did a comprehensive review and even made jokes about TM3. Topgear has always hated Tesla since day 1.

If you notice, British magazines and reviewers nearly always tend to promote British over other country's cars. Porsche, and the Germans in general, usually but them back in their place!

I think the reason is that the jaguar is a smoother transition from the petrol car to the electric car. I think that the tesla design of the interiors (one gigantic flat screen no button approach) and of the exterior and the case of the model x with its back doors is just trying very hard to revolutionise everything in one go.it feels just a little bit less as a driver car and more like a transportation system... Don't get me wrong, i love tesla style but I just think it can alienate some people.

of course, Tesla is not british.

Jehan Kateli Jeremy clarkson didn’t wanna embarrass his petrol vehicles so he wants tesla to fail.

He gave a positive review. Only the ego of Musk was hurt by him mentioning some criticism and little Elon was crying loud and the cult followed.

There are sh*tloads of YT channels and TV programmes where I can get serious non-biased reviews and Top Gear is now just one of many. The old Top Gear was truly unique. Some people want tech news but also entertainment, myself included.

@@diazemap the old top gear was great, Now Its like others :(

mskz06 Mr Petrol has already met Mr Electricity over the road. The result was settled long ago, .but Mr Electricity is taking another stab at powering our cars...the thing is, Mr Petrol & his large family are also powering our big trucks, aircraft, gigantic ships, & virtually everything else that moves. Poor Mr Electricity, the only large things it moves are locomotives, but it is still Mr Petrol that "gives it life". It must be that pesky Energy to Mass formula...those high-power batteries are starting to act more & more like Mr Petrol, they're providing heat & warmth...& if pushed too hard, smoke, fire & explosions...poor Mr Electricity, acting like Mr Petrol just won't do, be yourself.

Cars, plane, tuck and train companies are all working on moving onto either electricity or hydrogen. I guaranty you that by 2030 no ICE cars will be sold.

MrRiddleO The inescapable truth is the energy to density abilities of the two power sources...the energy of Gasoline at 46.4 Mega-Joules of energy, the Lithium-Metal batteries at 1.8 Mega-Joules of energy. A 24 to one ratio of gasoline to battery ...this difference is huge...for the weight of one Tesla 85Kw battery, one could have 171 gallons of gasoline on board, enough for 5000 miles worth of range...Do the math... Commercial passenger aircraft couldn't begin to run on electricity & batteries to make them go...the ONLY reason why we see electric drones & other toy planes is the square cube law...learn something people!

@@AndieBlack13 & now we have cars like the Lucid Air Grand Touring that can do over 400 miles in the real world

@@ExclamationMarx Nether the Jaguar at $72.5+ K nor the Lucid Air at 89,000 plus would be considered practical or desirable.

I hope you mean the world of automotive journalism needs more unbiased (rather than pro-EV) writers and presenters. I would stop watching a provider's content if I felt they had been taken over by the PC brigade and were using videos as a tool to advance their agenda of forcing us into EVs.

Maths - No, I mean pro-EV. There's a journalistic responsibility to do fair reviews, of course, but there's no lack of reviewers who love petrol-powered vehicles. Much as I hope to trust them to give me a fair review of this or that ICE car, it seems a stretch to get some people to discard years, perhaps decades of petrol-loving bias. Not that that is inherently bad... we like what we like. As a for instance, if someone prefers train travel to airplane travel, are they wrong? No, of course not. It's just a preference. An automotive journalist need not be considered wrong to prefer petrol-powered cars to EVs, but I want to hear from journalists who prefer EVs to ICE.

It's gigantic - a longer wheelbase than the ginormous Tesla Model X and Model S, and I'm still not sure you can get through a 2m width restrictor even if you fold the mirrors in.

Marc Cote: I hated what he said about worrying about the range when the battery has 150 miles on it but he does not worry if he only had 50 miles in his gas car. It reminded me of my mom who would get very nervous if the fuel gauge showed only half a tank of gas when we were on the I-75 with gas stations every 10 miles or less. She was scared of running out while the car could still do 200 miles. People really don't understand what their cars can and can not do in real life.

Marc Cote if a reviewer enjoys ICE powered cars over EVs (most do, as they provide more fun than straight-line acceleration), you cannot legitimately claim that he’s being biased. It’s the nature of the car in question that’s being discussed here. But good luck on your mission to skew automotive journalism.

Energie Wender it’s designed by the British though. Doesn’t matter where it’s assembled

You know how they generate the electricity needed to charge up a PHEV/PEV right? And you know how environmentally damaging making batteries is right? Let's see one of the manufacturers actually make a decent attempt at a hydrogen fuelled version. Honda do a family coupe in USA?

Chris Timbers , these are old arguments, there is no reason why we cannot shift to sustainable energy . Many cities already have mandates, S.F. is to be more than 60% I believe by 2025. As for the materials that go into the batteries, they are very valuable and 100% recyclable. Tesla has already limited to a tiny amount , the quantity of cobalt used in the batteries. With the exception of their source of Lithium, which comes from Mexico, Tesla is almost completely sourced and built in America, a true American auto. The technology going into these autos is really something to behold. As mentioned, I have had many sports cars over the years, none of them even come close to the Model 3 I am driving now.

shepherdsknoll8 Quite the contrary. The creation of Car Batteries leads to the same levels of pollution. It's a complete myth that EV polute less. And don't even get me started on how polluting our current electrical is polluting. You are way better off with a Diesel or Petrol right now.

+Türkay what's needed is the true next generation of battery that replaces lithium ion, and it IS coming. When it does the battery's will hold at least 2.5x the energy, have way longer recharge cycles and will be able to charge much much faster. There's about 30 different new battery techs being developed right now and I predict one of them will be widely commercially available by 2028

Current battery technology is great ! I have a 320 mile range in the Model 3. We can travel anywhere in the U.S. via the Supercharger network that is a pleasure to use. It’s actually great on long trips as it gives you time to stop, rest and meet other EV owners. At home I plug in and have a full charge every day for the equivalent of $1.00 a gallon of gas. When I go to the Tesla roof with Powerwalls, cost will be modest. Best of all I never have to deal with the gas station again, the smell and getting gas and oil on my hands and clothes.

Limited sales due to lack of ecosystem in almost all markets.

it seems only the model X can get 300+ mile range on an suv

Range is 300 miles, 500 km.

Must be misinformed. I'm getting 150 out of a 30 kWh battery now. I would expect a 90 kWh jag to come in around double that.

All reviews, some on motorway journeys are showing that the car is easily achieving it stated range.

spazzman90 -- Lol, you must be driving in a NEDC test lab. You are not getting 150 miles from a 30 kWh battery in all environmental conditions at constant 70-75 mph. Get real mate. If you want EVs to replace ICEVs, they have to be road trip ready, and step up from the commuter car use case.

David Knowles -- er, would that be the EPA, the WLTP or the NEDC stated range? All are complete BS for 75mph highway driving in non-fantasy conditions. Take 70% of EPA for realistic highway driving range in a variety of non-ideal conditions.

The I pace looks pure quality inside, whilst the Tesla interior is cheap and plasticky. That’s maybe because the jag has decades of heritage, whereas the Tesla is just a recent techy car, and just don’t have the build experience of other established cars.

"but doesn't offer anything more than a Nissan Leaf. " Are you kidding? Even if they were ICE-cars, they would be totally different and it would be normal that the Jag is more expense. Nobody would say, that it doesn't offer more than the Nissan. And when it comes to special EV features: The battery is more than twice as big and so the range far bigger. And you can charge faster.

Sebastian Nolte I see your point but to me it's closer to a Nissan Leaf than it is to a new Tesla, things like automatic tailgate aren't even standard and there is no self driving hardware. I can't see how the Ipace would be attractive to buyers when they can get more for less with Tesla. If you add some of the options which are standard on Model S and X, the Ipace price gets pricey. Hopefully the build quality will be it's advantage but jaguar aren't known for great quality lately. Still an amazing car though as are the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt. Nice to know we are moving forward and our kids can breath cleaner air.

Just wait a bit : if the Elaine comes out (I hope so) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YADo9fJxxMg.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tih6OC6UMko.html How is Tesla doing in Formula E racing and on Pike's peak EV cars race :-)And we will see what the ugly bad quality built Tesla cars will do then against the beautiful German production cars in the next 10 years :-)

This is simply not true. AutoBild, the largest German Car Magazin said that the build quality of the Model 3 is the same as BMWs build Quality. Tesla made some huge improvements in the last Time..

@ 4n0n1m0u3 : Autobild is like the Bild in Germany, it's among the worst journalism in Germany. Autobild even claimed years ago an upcoming Audi R4 with fake photoshopped pictures as claimed true version. 2018 and still no Audi R4 released llike Autobild claimed. Never has a Tesla the built quality of a BMW or an Audi even less from a Mercedes and even less the same quality of a same priced Porsche, just in your Tesla fanboy dreams.A quick google of Tesla issues or Tesla problems or Tesla reliability issues will cure your claims (even from Tesla buyers on Tesla forums).But I agree with you that they are making improvements.But overpriced Teslac have the built quality of a Seat, Renault or Citroën maybe the quality of a Skoda or VW (but Tesla does it for twice the price due costs of expensive batteries). And the Model 3 interior is just a joke. In Luxembourg, Germany and France, people I know are laughing about it. And in Western Europe that bad quality car will cost 50000 euros at least properly equipped. Sorry but people here will buy an Audi S3 new, an A-Class AMG line new (or A45 ÂMG used) or Audi A4 Avant or Audi S5 used or BMW X1 new, or Porsche Cayman S used for that price before buying a Tesla Model 3.

It´s clear that they had issues in the past but they improved much. I´m not a Fanboy i just believe the largest german car magazin more than a quick Google research. I was sitting in multiple Teslas and there was no built quality issues at all. Check out the Doug de Mouro Review of the BMW i3 he sais its worser quality than the Model 3. And by the way Porsche has stoped their sales in Europe because of Toxic Regulations and so does Audi, Mercedes and BMW. A4, A6, A7, 7 Series, some of the Mercedes C and E Class Models and many others Production has now been stoped. German Car Industrie is going a really bad way in the Moment and their build quality wont save them at all..

4n0n1m0u3 that called ‘sponsored content’ sunshine. They’re paid by Tesla to say that.

Warrantti ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tsqUy4VEJ4c.html Watch the wind tunnel test you’ll find it’s there for a reason

@Farris TheLaggy Really? Do tell us who designed the battery

@Farris TheLaggy Anazing! With WMG virtually on Jaguar's doorstep and LG's long standing global eminence in cell technology, Jaguar designed the whole battery themselves. Some may see that as a sad tiny piece of BL legacy - because this Austrian built car is fabulous on many levels. But its efficiency falls away behind Tesla. Do you put that down to the in house battery design or the motors?

@Farris TheLaggy Why? Its Wh per 100km consumption is aced by Tesla. One bit of hypermiling by Tesla Bjorn -and you set that as the benchmark - ignoring WLTP and EPA figures and all the real world results in a myriad other reviews?

Tesla use Induction motors for torque, and Reluctance/PM motors for low speed efficiency.

There are already massive differences in battery (cf Tesla and Nissan), electronics, software, autonomous driving abilities, efficiency, charging rate, charging networks, availability (iPace very small production run), price/value, and even in performance and handling...

Miyuru Weerarathna Yeah because a Tesla roadster or rimac concept 2 are the same as a Nissan leaf or chevy volt

TheStuntdude12 you don't get his point sadly.

Miyuru Weerarathna nah, just you wait until AMG get their hands on some great batteries and are given the green light by Mercedes-Benz to go nuts.

Jaguar is a registered British company thats designed in Britain. The only thing Indian about it, is that an indian company bought the brand, from the previous owner ford (american)

nothing Indian about Jaguar Land Rover . Same way nothing Chinese about Volvo .

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The company is British, the owner is Indian. It is not true that Tata fired all Englishmen at Jaguar and replaced them with people from India.

Thank God for Indians , the Jaguar & Land Rover is back in business and making profit by selling cars.The reliability has improved and they are at least started trying to stay in the business. Also Jaguar & Land Rover went truely global with their sales and they didn't strip off the Britishness off it.

Cheap batteries. Low production numbers. Exaggerated price tag. Enjoy it while you can. I will take a TM3.

Woody W Im saying that the Jag is a better car, what you trying to say? 😂

Woody W Tesla owns the market. TM3 has half a million pre-orders. Jaguar plans on making 12,000 ipace in 2019. Tesla makes almost 5,000 a week.

David Beppler And they are still losing money every second :)

+David Beppler Tesla has never made a profit, they're actually in really bad shape financially and at some point the investors could pull the plug. Once all the other big manufacturers release their own electric equivalents then it's only going to get worse for Tesla. They need to come up with someone truly revolutionary like their own next gen battery that's way better than anything else otherwise they're screwed.

It's not a completely pointless grill. It's curved at the top to improve airflow.

A functional grill, no less. The upper grill sorts the aero out, and the lower grill gets it an extra 50km of cold-weather range by feeding air to the heat scavengers.

Necessary for the cooling of the battery. Adds wind drag but keeps it running better than Nissan.

why youre so concered about it ??? all that hate tho

They will easily push the time to 3.1 (Musjk indicated on Twitter).

Yeah I was thinking 3.5 seemed a bit slow for them!

They will do Ludicrous later.

More importantly than 0-60, the Tesla has the best driverless capabilities.

According to Tesla, all they have is the hardware to one day go driverless. It's still hands-on tech in a Tesla - adaptive cruise control _ lane-keeping assist with auto-steer within your lane. The auto-lane change doesn't do blind-spot checking, so isn't driver-free. Plus it lacks credible driver-attention monitoring

Try living with both for a while - you'll change your tune.

Colin Fox so have you lived with an ipace for a while? Somehow I doubt that

Eusebio Escelante THE one criticism in other reviews of the i-pace: slow interface. It looks good from the outside tes

The interior and controls of the I-Pace are much more convenient then any Tesla, especially the Model 3, which is like a playskool level of UI... Tesla has great acceleration, but the cars themselves are poorly built, and have more problems then other cars, you would never want to own a Tesla when it is off warranty...

I do actually own a Tesla out of warranty. Still cheaper than al Mercedes' I owned. Sure it had it problems, but so does my Mercedes' had during the first years.

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Don't read my profile picture i like u

for now RS is more interesting. What happens when electric car, a proper electric sports car will deliver 8000 bhp?

Goose 22 I like the Rs4. I’m not sure it is more interesting. The internal combustion engine is coming to the end but just you wait until Audi get a few years of electrification under their belt. They are going to make some monsters. I am really excited about the possibilities.

It was design in Warwickshire. At Warwick university.

wow that´s the worst think of it :)

The iPhone is an American product, never seen any new models made in the US. Don’t know much about Austria’s vehicle manufacturing industry, but India’s just cheap labour even if it’s all robotic now. You don’t need much health and safety for someone working less than 30p an hour.

TinyRodent Yet they just being buying up all the international brands. And JLR is just that!

An hopefully the capacity problem will be solve soon with a new manufacturing facility in the UK. An there rumour Tata eventually plan to float the company on the FTSE 100 at some point in the future.

Yeah - Jag is way better than Tesla. That's why the company's been traded around like a football - owned by FORD at one point, amazingly. Jag is all name, like Maserati or Aston. Names that people admire for no good reason, other than history. Tesla, on the other hand, has people lining up around the block just to sit in their cars, and managed to get almost half a million people to throw down $1000 just for a PLACE IN LINE to buy one.

That is something Tesla has to worry about...

Then again, pretty much everyone was owned by Ford at some point - Volvo, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, ThInk EVs... even Ferrari came within seconds of being owned by Ford at one point. (Enzo Ferrari changed his mind at the meeting where he was due to sign the papers). Every EV maker has people lining up to buy their cars atm - the Hyundai Ioniq, Bolt, i3, Zoe and even the Leaf all have waiting lists.

Jaguar is known for electrical fires. Easiest way to make a Jaguar run better is to add a dozen ground lines. This is not a joke. Knowing that, do you want a all electric Jaguar?

Getting away from that dangerous gasoline probably helps a lot.

Yeah the $35,000 Model 3, that costs at least $44,000. $45,000 if you want it in any colour than black.. ha

llowoll What myth? Only idiots who did not listen to Elon thought TM3 was going to be $35k day one. Everyone else knew they had to reach 5,000 a week first. It is called economy of scale. Keep talking about the ipace like they will actually build any. Tesla is building almost 5,000 EV's a week. How many is Jaguar building? 12? Keep an eye on the cheap batteries Jaguar is using too. Wonder how long they will last?

I-Pace production is limited to a few thousand this year and 12,000 for 2019 because LG Chem can't supply the batteries to JLR to make any more than that. JLR has put out tenders for cylindrical cells equivalent to ~130,000 vehicles of ~90kWh for 2022/2023. But that quantity isn't far off total global production for the 2nd and 3rd largest manufacturers combined so any responses they get will be looking for matching funding from JLR for building that kind of production capacity. People seem to forget that making any EV, especially something approaching affordable is "all about the battery, stupid". A traditional car manufacturer couldn't hit Tesla's production numbers for many years simply because the production capacity to provide the batteries they need isn't there. Hyundai/Kia has a 12 month waiting list for the Ioniq (launched 2016 and not even in all planned markets yet) & Kona (which hasn't even shipped yet) and despite LG Chem and SK Innovations doubling their battery supply the list keeps growing. For context, Hyundai/Kia's "doubled" battery supply last year was around 10% of Tesla's battery supply.

cros13 : Tesla fan here, but I thought I saw 30,000 production as the goal for I-Pace, still not a threat to Tesla but I do not think they will have any trouble selling 30K in a year. PS. And Porsche doing 30-50K of the Mission-E, all in all it is going to be a bad year for petrol-heads who love the noise/smell but a great year for the gear-heads who love cars.

cros13 thanks for the info. Where did you get it from? I keep posting that no other three auto companies can compete with the Giga factory based on a story from Elon Musk's head engineer from 2002. They can unveil any new amazing EV they want, still needs batteries, that they do not have!

yeah no doubt

Just not this one. One with a V8.

TheTinyPigeon. Me too. Much classier. So pretty.

saad ultra gamer go watch TheGrandTour

Surely for a car like this the noise really shouldn’t bother you much. IMO It’s a beautiful car, utilising the newest technologies. If you wanted noise then buy an American car with an all noise engine. Or a Japanese car which has no knowledge of comfort.

fauzi hassan ITS ABOUT TIME THE MODEL X HAD A RIVAL THOUGH!

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once batteries no longer become an issue, the only downside of an electric is "sound", until then ice cars will continue to exist.... nothing bad. This is an suv to sell to the mass anyways, who cares about suvs

fauzi hassan You'll change your mind in a few years, I guarantee it.