Jaguar has not sold a car since December 2024. The F-Pace was the last model to roll off the Solihull production line, and since then the brand has existed in a strange limbo: no product, a polarising rebrand, a controversial concept car, and a lot of promises about the future. That future now has a date. According to Carscoops, the four door electric GT will make its global debut in September 2026.
The car was originally due in 2025. A cyberattack that paralysed JLR's systems and halted production at Solihull pushed the timeline back a year. The September date is now firm, and 150 prototypes are currently racking up test kilometres across scorching deserts and Scandinavian winter testing facilities, as Carwow reports.
What the car actually is
The GT is built on Jaguar's new in house JEA platform, an 850 volt electrical architecture developed specifically for this vehicle rather than carried over from any existing JLR product. Evo magazine, which has driven a prototype at Jaguar's REVI winter testing facility in Sweden, reports a triple motor drivetrain producing around 1,000 horsepower and 1,000 lb ft of torque, with a single motor at the front and independent rear motors on each wheel enabling full torque vectoring. The battery is a 120 kWh unit. The WLTP range target is over 700 kilometres on a single charge, and the 800 volt charging architecture is claimed to add 200 miles of range in fifteen minutes.
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The chassis specification is serious. Twin chamber air suspension with Bilstein adaptive dampers, rear wheel steering, and torque vectoring software that GearFliQ reports can respond within milliseconds. Despite that, Jaguar has deliberately mapped the torque delivery to be progressive rather than instant, chasing the feeling of a grand tourer under sustained high speed loads rather than the neck snapping hit of a hypercar. Evo's test driver reports a 0 to 62 mph time in the low three second range.
The car is 5.2 metres long, seats four, and is priced from around £120,000. That puts it squarely against the Porsche Taycan, which Jaguar's engineers insist it is not trying to be.
The heritage brief
The engineering approach here is unusual and worth noting. GearFliQ reports that before development began, Jaguar's engineers spent time in 2023 driving the XK120, E-Type, XJ Coupe V12, XJS and the original XJ Series I to understand what a Jaguar is supposed to feel like at a fundamental level.
Jaguar Vehicle Engineering Director Matt Becker explained the exercise:
"Jaguar's identity has always been about delivering performance and comfort in equal measure."
That balance is what the GT is being built around. The design follows from the 2024 Type 00 concept shown at Miami Art Week, carrying over the upright nose, long flat bonnet, sloping roofline and short rear deck. The production car adds two doors the concept never had.
The situation the car walks into
Jaguar has burned enormous goodwill in the eighteen months since it stopped selling cars. The rebrand drew widespread mockery. The Type 00 concept divided opinion sharply. Design boss Gerry McGovern has since departed, leaving the final production specification without its chief architect, which raises legitimate questions about whether the car that arrives in September will look exactly as originally intended.
What the brand has going for it is that the underlying product, based on every independent account from journalists who have ridden or driven prototypes, appears to be genuinely impressive. The platform is new, the technology is serious, and the dynamics suggest Jaguar understood what it was trying to build.
The September reveal will be the first time the public sees the full production car without camouflage. UK and US deliveries are expected to follow shortly after. The rest of the world comes later.
For a brand that has been selling nothing for the better part of two years, the pressure on that reveal event is difficult to overstate.
Sources:
- Evo — Jaguar GT prototype review
- Autocar India — New Jaguar four door electric GT to be revealed in September
- Carscoops — Jaguar Benchmarked Its Electric GT Against One Classic Above All Others
- Carwow — New Jaguar electric four door GT
- GearFliQ — New Jaguar Four Door Electric GT Inspired By E-Type And XJ, To Debut In September
- Electrifying — New Electric Jaguar Type 00 Review 2026