It feels like Jaguar has been teasing the Type 01 sedan—and its impossibly long body barely hidden by camouflage stretched over every panel—for years now. Thankfully, it hasn’t been that long, and besides: the wait is over. It’s time to finally dig into this striking four-door, which to our delight has barely deviated from the concept’s design.
Jaguar was not shy in admitting that the Type 01 is a design-led affair. Obviously, that fact shines through in every single picture of the thing. Its proportions are proper old-school Jag sedan: the hood stretches off to Narnia, the cabin’s in a different ZIP code than the headlights, and the rear end tapers off to one of the most stylistically unique rear ends we’ve ever seen on a production car.
In person, the Type 01 almost feels like a car within a car, like some sort of Russian nesting doll affair. Take a gander just below the windows, where the body juts out sideways, surrounding the glass with these flat expanses that confer serious visual width via that matryoshka look. That broad shoulder continues all the way back—don’t ask what it’ll cost to replace that rear quarter panel. The rear end ditches windows entirely in favor of a newfangled camera-mirror setup, but don’t think for a second that Jaguar replaced that glass with cargo space; power hardware rises so far above the rear axle that what’s left of a trunk is only good for a checked bag or two, or a handful of carry-ons.
One interesting note before we head inside: Did you notice that the charging port on the front fender is the size of a dorm-room television? We asked Jaguar about that, and proportionality was the reason we received. The body’s castings mandated the location of the charging hardware, and after experimenting with more common port-door sizes, the team realized it had to be scaled up to match the fender’s proportions, lest it look weirder than it already does.
The simple act of opening the doors serves yet another reminder that design held nearly all the reins of this sleigh. Why? Because the openings are tiny—especially the back row, where one big-and-tall-store colleague genuinely had a hard time settling in.
Once you’re inside, the ergonomic quandaries continue, though the cabin’s flashiness does a good job of providing plenty of shiny distractions. The “spine” that runs the length of the cabin rises high enough against the low ceiling to feel a little claustrophobic, though we do love how many hidden pieces and panels are tucked away in there, including extra cupholders and storage points. The front passenger has their own unique issue, where the megacasting that comprises the bulkhead intrudes upon footroom, forcing taller people to either sit flat-footed with their knees toward their chest or awkwardly rest their feet against the entirely vertical bulkhead. If you’re a hobbit who fell into a large sum of human money, though, none of this should be a concern.
Despite the Type 01’s smaller cabin size, Jaguar found plenty of room to place screens. The front row is privy to a 24.0-inch OLED primary touchscreen running Jaguar’s latest software. But that’s not the only glass surface in town; both rows get individual 7.0-inch portrait touchscreens that handle climate and seat-position settings, similar to how other Jaguar Land Rover vehicles split some of their digital duties across an upper and lower screen. The whole thing runs on an Nvidia-based architecture that offers over-the-air updates and saves about a kilometer’s worth of wiring harness.
The audio system is set up soundbar-style, rising from the dashboard and containing 13 speakers (six woofers, four mid-range, three tweeters). Another two dozen-ish speakers hide out in the ceiling, the headrests, and in other locations, though those are for background functions like active noise cancellation.
When Jaguar announces a massive brand upheaval and kicks it off with a car with this much road presence, there’d better be a whole lot of bite to match the bark. Thankfully, Jaguar shoehorned plenty in. The Type 01 is the most powerful road car Jaguar has ever built, with three electric motors (one front, two rear) combining to produce 1015 horsepower and 1007 pound-feet of torque. Jaguar estimates a 60-mph sprint to take just 3.1 seconds.
When it comes time to charge, the Jaguar Type 01’s split-pack setup allows it to charge via both 400-volt and 800-volt chargers. When plugged into a 350-kW DC fast-charger, Jaguar estimates a 10-to-80 percent fill-up time of about 22 minutes—or, if you like fuzzier math, the car can add 200 miles of range in about 13 minutes. The Jag’s 118-kWh battery carries an estimated range of 400 miles—or, if you’re steady-state cruising on the highway at 75 mph, about 320 miles. We’ve never seen an automaker get ahead of our in-house EV range test before, but hey, it’s nice to have a very explicit promise against which to test.
There are plenty of other tricks tucked away under the Type 01’s body, too. Standard all-wheel-steering (6 degrees maximum) means this Ohio-class submarine shouldn’t have a turning circle measured in furlongs. The suspension includes standard air springs and adaptive dampers. Despite the car’s massive front end, the whole shebang is perfectly balanced with a 50:50 weight distribution, so it should handle nicely enough, and trust us, we’re excited to get our hands on this thing.
The Jaguar Type 01 is still a ways away, with deliveries estimated to start in mid-2027, but order books are opening right now if they aren’t already. While we’re told the avant-garde electric sedan will have an MSRP of $130,500, that’s before the mandatory destination fee, which Jaguar hasn’t yet confirmed. Since it will likely match or exceed the outgoing F-Pace’s $1375 freight charge, expect the Type 01’s starting price to land between $132K–$133K.
Cars are Andrew Krok’s jam, along with boysenberry. After graduating with a degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009, Andrew cut his teeth writing freelance magazine features, and now he has a decade of full-time review experience under his belt. A Chicagoan by birth, he has been a Detroit resident since 2015. Maybe one day he’ll do something about that half-finished engineering degree.
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