2021 Jaguar F-Pace SVR: A Ferocious, Gas-Powered SUV (For Now)

IN FEBRUARY, Jaguar Land Rover--based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, and owned by the Tata Group of Mumbai--announced that the Leaping Cat was to be "reimagined" as an "all-electric luxury brand from 2025." In the months since, JLR has declined to provide details. But if realized in full, such a plan would carry Jaguar over the all-electric threshold years earlier than rivals including BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. Uniquely, JLR's announcement seems to imply some sort of hard stop on petrol-powered Jaguars (about 426,000 global sales in 2020). Other automakers--Daimler and Toyota among them--want to ease the pain of electrification with a generation of gas-electric hybrids and plug-in hybrid models.