The Active Key is a vogueish piece of wearable tech There are also four USB ports, an armoury of apps, and some analogue but still enormously useful cup-holders. This being a family ‘lifestyle’ vehicle, let us rejoice at the news that it can support four separate tablets/smartphones/ whatevers, thus preserving familial harmony on long journeys. So, like its saloon brothers, the F-Pace has what amounts to a full-blown PC tucked in its rear wheelarch somewhere, supporting a quadcore Intel processor, and mobile ethernet with a 1GB/second bandwidth. Rest assured we’ll do our best to get it stuck at some point.Īs well as entering the market sector that has basically taken over the world, Jaguar is conscious that there’s a whole generation out there whose idea of connectivity has sod-all to do with what’s happening at the front wheels. Jaguar’s proprietary Intelligent Driveline Dynamics (IDD) takes charge of torque distribution. It’s clearly not a Land Rover, but the torque-on-demand all-wheel drive system – which uses a transfer case with a multi-plate clutch – gives it decent off-road chops. Like its siblings, the F-Pace is available with passive dampers, adaptive damping, and the configurable dynamics package, which allows you to fiddle about with throttle, chassis and steering. We'll do our best to get it stuck at some point. Clearly it’s not all down to software algorithms. Here’s another great nugget: because you sit higher in an SUV, and further away from the front wheels’ contact patch, the engineers haven’t just retuned the electric steering, they’ve added a fifth mounting on the rack compared to the XE and XF to preserve proper feel. Jaguar claims the car’s lateral stiffness is 50 per cent better than the Macan’s, and promises noticeably better compliance at the front than the P*****e. The configuration has been modified for off-road duty, with strengthened lower arms and bonded bushes to better repel dust and dirt, but promises class-leading agility and turn-in. It also uses Jaguar’s brilliant integral multi-link rear suspension, and double wishbones upfront. Impressively, despite the principles the car shares with the equally aluminium intensive XE and XF, 81 per cent of the F-Pace is unique. (The entry-level F-Pace manual diesel weighs an impressively skinny-for-a-truck 1665kg overall.)Ī third of that aluminium is recycled, a figure the company wants to increase. There’s a piece that runs the whole side of the car that’s the biggest single casting Jaguar has ever done, and weighs just 5.8kg. In fact, its body-in-white weighs just 298kg, approximately the same as the much smaller Fiat 500 L. Jaguar now claims to be the industry leader in aluminium, and 80 per cent of the new car’s body structure is made of the stuff.
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