Jaguar F-Pace
Compact luxury SUV · 2016–2025. This review has not established this model’s 2024 U.S. sales.
How it began
Jaguar Land Rover created it in the United Kingdom. Ian Callum, Jaguar's Director of Design, oversaw the design of the C-X17 concept it grew from and called it "our family sports car". Kevin Stride, Vehicle Line Director, led the launch, and Andy Goss, Global Sales Director, announced the name. The company's CEO was Dr. Ralf Speth. The 2020 update credits Julian Thomson as Design Director and Colin Kirkpatrick as Chief Product Engineer.
It was developed in the United Kingdom, with prototypes tested in Dubai and northern Sweden. It was built at the Solihull plant in England's Midlands, alongside the XE sedan, in a "factory within a factory" that received 620 million pounds, the largest investment in the plant's 70-year history. Ingenium diesel engines came from the Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton. The F-Paces sold in the U.S. came from Solihull.
Jaguar announced the name in Detroit on January 11, 2015. It opened orders worldwide on September 14, 2015, and unveiled the car at the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 15. It reached the U.S. in spring 2016 as a 2017 model.
Jaguar said the model was inspired by the F-TYPE sports car, hence the F. When announcing it, Andy Goss tied it to the brand's founding ideals of Grace, Pace and Space, the slogan of Jaguar's 1960s ads. Pace means speed. As Autoblog reported, Ian Callum would have preferred to revive the X-Type name.
Until 2016 Jaguar had never sold an SUV. The 2013 C-X17 concept drew such a positive response that, according to Callum, Jaguar had to build it. The goal was a five-seat compact luxury SUV with class-leading interior space that kept the brand's sporty character: "the ultimate practical sports car", in Goss's words. It worked: it was Jaguar's best-selling model in the U.S. from its first year.
Generation by generation
- Gen. 12017–2020 · X761
Jaguar's first SUV
Photo: Vauxford · CC BY-SA 4.0 What changed. It replaced nothing: it was the first SUV in Jaguar's history. In the U.S. it arrived with a 340 or 380 hp supercharged 3.0-liter V6, an 8-speed automatic and all-wheel drive; a 180 hp 2.0-liter diesel followed. It offered 33.5 cubic feet of cargo space. The SVR was announced in March 2018, with deliveries beginning in 2019 with a 550 hp supercharged 5.0-liter V8, 0 to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds and a starting price of $79,990.
The innovation. Its lightweight aluminum architecture: Jaguar Land Rover said the F-Pace was 80 percent aluminum, more than any competitor, and the most aluminum-intensive product in its class. The SVR brought the first electronic active rear differential to the F-Pace.
If you buy one usedNHTSA lists these recalls: 2017 models with a rear driveshaft that was too short and could separate (17V153); an instrument cluster that could go blank on 2017–2018 models (17V678 and 18V052); fuel rail end caps that could leak on 2018 models with the 2.0 gasoline engine (18V090); a crankshaft pulley bolt that could fracture on certain 2019 F-Pace models with the 3.0-liter supercharged V6 (19V039); the auto high beam indicator on 2019–2020 models (21V118); and child-seat belt retractors on 2020 models (21V667). Ask for proof the repairs were done and look up the VIN at nhtsa.gov. - Gen. 22021–2026 · X761 (actualización 2020)
The big update: hybrid power and a new cabin
Photo: Vauxford · CC BY-SA 4.0 What changed. Unveiled on September 15, 2020: a new hood, LED headlights with the Double J signature, a larger grille and an all-new cabin with an 11.4-inch curved touchscreen (48 percent larger than the old 10-inch), a 12.3-inch digital driver display, Pivi Pro and over-the-air software updates. It added 3.0-liter sixes with a 48-volt mild-hybrid system and, in selected global markets, a 404 PS P400e plug-in hybrid, whose electric range grew from 33 to 40 WLTP miles for the 2024 model year. In 2023 the 575 PS SVR 575 Edition became the most powerful F-Pace ever.
The innovation. Active Road Noise Cancellation, which Jaguar called a segment first: the system creates an opposite-phase sound wave to cancel tire noise inside the cabin, the way noise-canceling headphones do.
If you buy one usedNHTSA lists: an oil filter housing that can crack and leak, with fire risk, on 2021–2024 models (24V451); a DC-DC converter on 2021–2024 mild-hybrid models that can fail and leave the car without 12-volt charging or drive power (26V248 and 26V599; ask the retailer for the current final-remedy status and instructions for the exact VIN); incorrect tail lights on 2021–2022 models (22V525); seat belt pretensioners on 2022 models (22V524); a blocked oil channel on 2023 models (23V045); a rearview camera that can go dark on 2024 models (24V677); and a gear shift module with moisture on 2026 models (25V705). Look up the VIN at nhtsa.gov before you buy.
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