Jaguar Releases First Test Mule Images of Coming GT Sedan BEV

As if to keep the hordes of Jaguar aficionados onboard, the automaker releases the first images of its coming battery-electric performance GT sedan just days after announcing U.K. sales of all new models have ended.

The heavily camouflaged test mule is being put through initial on-road trials in the U.K. ahead of its official reveal next summer, although some automotive titles suggest a Design Vision Concept will be revealed at the beginning of next month.

It’s a 4-door sporting sedan said to be targeting a retail price of £130,000 ($164,500) as the herald of a new BEV range with two SUV models to follow before the end of the decade.

What is clear is that the vehicle appears to revisit the iconic brand’s roots of having a long hood and riding low to the ground. That said, the front is quite blunt and there’s a hint that headlights could be slender and long, possibly wrapping around the wings.

Evident especially from the side, the car will have an assertive high waist and a tapered rear end.

It will be the brand's first model to use the new Jaguar Electric Architecture platform and targets a range between charges of more than 400 miles (644 km). Production is planned for JLR's Solihull plant in the U.K.’s Midlands west of London.

In an earlier interview with The Independent newspaper, Jaguar MD Rawdon Glover says:

“Our car isn’t going to look like it’s been designed in the wind tunnel. It’s got very, very specific proportions, it looks like it’s been carved from a single piece of material. It’s about going back to that level of confidence and fearlessness to say: No, we are going to do this, and it might not be what everybody else is doing.

“It might not be to everybody’s taste but we’ve got to really believe in that design and then execute it with absolute conviction. It still looks like a car, it’s still going to have four wheels, it’s still got a steering wheel, but it doesn’t look like any other car on the road, and that’s a high bar.”