Key Takeaways
- The production Type 01 is a four-door electric grand tourer and the first car of Jaguar's return to Australia, with orders opening in 2027
- Jaguar quotes up to 757kW, tri-motor all-wheel drive, and 0-62 km/h in 3.2 seconds for the launch version
- Up to 720km of range on the 21-inch wheel; 350kW DC charging, 10 to 80 per cent in 22 minutes
- Indicative pricing from around $300,000 before on-roads; Jaguar's Australian page prints no price yet
- Every figure on Jaguar's page is a manufacturer estimate, to be replaced by certified numbers before order confirmation
- Four seats, a 24-inch OLED screen, a rear-view display in place of a mirror, air suspension, all-wheel steering, 23-inch wheels standard
Image credit: Jaguar. The car shown is the production Type 01 as it enters production; Jaguar says final customer models may vary before launch.
Jaguar has shown the car it stopped selling everything else to build. The Type 01 is a four-door electric grand tourer, the first production car of the brand's relaunch, and the car that brings Jaguar back to Australia in 2027 after it ran down its old range. Jaguar has indicated pricing from around $300,000 before on-road costs for the launch version, which puts it in the part of the market where the Audi RS e-tron GT, the Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 and the BMW i7 already live, and well above anything Jaguar has sold here before.
Jaguar's Australian page is live and it is specific, with one large caveat printed under every number: these are manufacturer's estimates, to be replaced with certified figures when they exist. We have kept that distinction below, because a 720km range and a 3.2-second sprint are the kind of numbers that get repeated as fact.
What Jaguar's Australian page prints
| Type 01, launch version | Jaguar's figure | Jaguar's own caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Power | Up to 757kW, tri-motor all-wheel drive | Estimate, pending certified figures |
| 0-62 km/h | Up to 3.2 seconds | Estimate; quoted to 62 km/h, not 100 |
| Range | Up to 720km | On the optional 21-inch wheel; estimate |
| DC charging | 350kW; up to 321km in 13 minutes; 10 to 80 per cent in 22 minutes | Varies with battery age, temperature, charge level and the charger |
| Wheels | 23-inch standard, 21-inch all-season optional | The 21 is the range wheel |
| Loadspace | More than 450 litres combined | Wet measure (liquid-fill method) |
| Battery warranty | Eight years | Exclusions apply, per Jaguar |
| Price | Not printed | Indicative from around $300,000 before on-roads, per Jaguar's reveal |
A note on the sprint figure: Jaguar quotes 0-62 km/h, which is the metric rounding of 0-60 mph. It is close enough to 0-100 km/h to compare in the pub and not close enough to put in a spec table beside cars quoted to 100, so our directory will carry it as Jaguar prints it until a 0-100 figure exists. Jaguar also says the launch version is one of several variants, with more and less powerful cars to follow.
The hardware
Three motors, all-wheel drive, torque vectoring, four-corner air suspension with switchable-volume springs and twin-valve active dampers, and all-wheel steering. Jaguar says the body and battery structure is its stiffest ever, with a 50/50 weight distribution and a low centre of gravity, and that the drive units are isolated twice from the body for refinement, backed by active road-noise cancellation. Charging ports sit on both sides of the car.
The thermal management is the detail worth noting for Australian conditions: Jaguar says the system moves energy between cabin and battery to cool the cabin in heat, and harvests ambient warmth to pre-condition the battery on cold mornings, with route planning that schedules charging stops automatically. The company's own usage data claim is that 99.7 per cent of journeys are completed without recharging; the footnote says that is based on JLR owners' journeys in 2023 and 2024, 99.7 per cent of which were within 488km.
The design
This is the car the concept promised: a long bonnet, a low roofline, a near-vertical tail with two full-width lights set into the Strikethrough graphic, and frameless doors with no visible trim because the sensors sit behind the panels and the door handles and the three-stage rear spoiler stay hidden until used. Jaguar's slimmest LED headlights to date carry HD projection on the upper pair. Eight exterior colours are listed, in gloss and optional satin, with a Design Vision curation in Visionary Silver satin on 23-inch diamond-turned wheels.
Image credit: Jaguar. Light Story interior theme.
Inside there are four seats, split by a brass-inspired centre spine that runs the length of the cabin and opens to reveal stowage and cupholders, with a control panel and vents for the rear pair. Ahead of the driver is a single 24-inch OLED screen that runs into the centre of the dash, with a 7-inch secondary device between the front seats. A ClearSight rear-view display sits in the Panoramic Soundbar by Meridian along the base of the windscreen, in place of a conventional mirror, and the front seats carry hot-stone massage and Jaguar's Sensory Sound, which you feel as well as hear. The glass roof has virtual blinds; three interior themes, Light Story, Dark Story and the Original Story in Ultrafabrics NeoGrain, are listed, with Kvadrat wool-blend textile wrapped around a choice of leather or the synthetic.
Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a 5G hotspot for eight devices, an app library through the Online Pack, a conversational voice assistant, remote software updates and an optional home charger styled to match the car round it out. The ownership offer is a three- or five-year package covering warranty, servicing, roadside assistance and mobility support, with Jaguar managing collection and delivery.
Who buys a $300,000 Jaguar
Jaguar is open that the Type 01 is aimed at very affluent buyers who want a distinctive luxury grand tourer rather than at the people who bought XEs and F-Paces, and the price confirms it. At around $300,000 before on-roads it lands between the Audi RS e-tron GT at $264,900 and the RS e-tron GT performance at $309,900, under the Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 and BMW i7 xDrive60 at $319,900, and a long way above a Porsche Taycan 4S at $222,100 (all before on-roads, from our directory). It is a different kind of object to all of them: a four-seat, four-door car with a boot, not a sports sedan and not an SUV. Whether Australian buyers at that level will take a punt on a brand that left the market and came back is the question Jaguar has to answer, and it will not be answered until the certified figures and the real price land in 2027.
We have not driven the Type 01; nobody outside Jaguar has. Every figure above is Jaguar's, from its Australian page, and is marked as an estimate where Jaguar marks it so. The Type 01 will appear in our directory as a coming-soon car with the identity Jaguar has published and no price until Jaguar Australia prints one.