Jaguar’s radical new flagship sedan spied at Nurburgring

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The rebirth of Jaguar as a high-price, low-volume all-electric competitor to Bentley is nearing its subsequent section: the launch of its new flagship sedan.

Spied on the Nurburgring in Germany, the brand new sedan is clad in disguise tape. There’s additionally some false physique panels beneath hiding the automobile’s shoulder line, and the design across the C-pillar, the again of the roof, and the realm the place a rear windscreen space would usually reside.

Regardless of this, although, we are able to see the sedan may be very clearly patterned on the controversial 2024 Sort 00 idea. And regardless of being constructed on an all-new EV-ony platform, the brand new Jaguar has a really lengthy, flat bonnet that reduces cabin quantity considerably.

With its bluff entrance and rear ends, and brutalist proportions, it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how aerodynamically environment friendly the brand new Jag is.

Different particulars we are able to make out embrace tiny window apertures, equally small LED lights at each ends, frameless door home windows, and flush-fitting pop-out door handles.

One other spy picture company caught this prototype parked with its tiny rear hatch opened, revealing a really excessive load lip and a small however deep boot.

Just like the Polestar 4, the brand new Jaguar doesn’t have a rear windscreen, which means drivers might want to depend on the automobile’s cameras for rearward imaginative and prescient. If the Sort 00 idea is something to go by, the manufacturing automobile may have a body-colour panel rather than the rear windscreen, whereas the “grille” will probably be a washboard-like part stamped into the entrance bumper.