The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city
Source: The Guardian ·
Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EVThe cutting edge car du jour, even while very few will ever buy one, is a good index of what the world’s coming to.It’s a dress-for-the-job-you-want principle, on wheels: drive for the world you want to inhabit. Continue…
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The cutting-edge car du jour, even while very few will ever buy one, is a good index of what the world’s coming to. It’s a dress-for-the-job-you-want principle, on wheels: drive for the world you want to inhabit. That’s why when Tesla launched the Model X with a bioweapon defence mode (2016!), we should have been much more worried than we were, and it’s why the Jaguar Type 01 Grand Tourer EV has a lot to say. “A new era,” the heritage carmaker calls it, and it’s not wrong. But having test-driven the era (just with my eyes and imagination, rather than the car itself), I would like to return it to the showroom and choose pretty much any other era. Its gigantic size alone makes it look as if it wants to wage war on the future. The whole point of the electrification revolution in motoring was that we could wean ourselves off energy profligacy and on to elegant sufficiency. If you counteract all that with a car too wide (2 metres) and too long (5.2 metres) to fit into any UK car parking…