Jaguar is preparing a four-door electric grand tourer that reaches back into the brand’s golden age for its character — and forward past 1,000 horsepower for its performance. The new Jaguar Luxury GT is built around a tri-motor drivetrain producing over 1,000 horsepower and more than 1,300 Nm of torque, making it the most powerful car the British marque has ever built. Its world premiere is scheduled for September 2026.
A new car between Legends
The central tension Jaguar has always navigated — and, at its best, resolved — is the one between performance and refinement. The new GT doesn’t treat these as competing priorities. Engineers describe a vehicle that is aggressive enough to satisfy as a driver’s car, and composed enough to make a long cross-continental journey feel effortless. That duality is not a marketing position; it is the founding brief of the entire project.
To ensure the new car felt genuinely Jaguar rather than generically electric, the development team spent time with five landmark models from the company’s history. Each contributed something specific to the final result.
The XK120 provided the reference for road composure and a driver-centred cockpit layout. The legendary E-Type confirmed that a grand tourer must feel natural at high speed — never strained — and that visual drama and driving ease are not mutually exclusive. The XJ Coupé V12 proved to be the closest spiritual ancestor: its ability to blend high-speed comfort with instant, effortless power mirrors the new GT’s core identity more closely than any other model in the archive. The XJS defined the template for a car engineered to cover serious ground at a sustained pace, treating long-distance comfort as a performance metric in its own right. Finally, the XJ Series I served as a reminder that power and refinement have been Jaguar’s two non-negotiables from the very beginning of the modern era.
High tech
Raw power figures mean little without the intelligence to deploy them. The tri-motor configuration is governed by torque-management software that responds in under a millisecond, directing force to individual wheels as conditions demand. The outcome is a car that feels progressive and precise at any point in the throttle range, not simply fast.
Underpinning everything is a chassis setup built around dynamic air suspension and dual-valve active dampers. The system absorbs surface imperfections continuously without allowing the body to drift or wallow — a difficult balance to strike, and one that separates true grand tourers from cars that merely look the part.
Visually, the new GT resists the temptation to signal its electric identity through styling novelty. There is no attempt to look futuristic for its own sake. Instead, the design leans on the proportions that made classic Jaguars unmistakable: an extended bonnet, a low-slung roofline, and bodywork that is taut rather than sculptural. The silhouette reads as a grand tourer before it reads as anything else — and that is entirely deliberate.
