Jaguar reveals the C-X17 Sports Crossover Concept

Here it is, finally in the flesh! After websites, magazines and blogs bombarded the web space with images and renderings of Jaguars latest concept, the company has gone ahead and finally revealed to the world what the Crossover Concept is all about.

Under massive crystal chandeliers with pulsing music and a mysterious atmosphere created by lights glowing and flashing through a well fogged stage, Jaguar revealed the 4-door C-X17 Crossover to the world.

The important part of the reveal is not the C-X17 body, but the platform that’s hidden underneath. The all aluminum chassis will serve as a foundation for a new generation of lightweight sedans and other vehicles beginning in 2015.

The C-X17 has been created as a design study to introduce Jaguar’s all-new advanced aluminium monocoque architecture, codenamed iQ[Al], on which future Jaguars will be built. A modular and scalable vehicle architecture, engineered and developed for Jaguar, the architecture is high-strength, lightweight, extremely stiff and incorporates innovative efficiency technologies.

Power will be provided by engines with a wide range of capacities and output. These will include the high-output petrol and diesel engines to be built at Jaguar Land Rover’s new engine manufacturing facility in the UK, as well as the powerful V6 petrol engine in the F-TYPE, which will provide best-in-class specific power output thanks to the lightweight architecture.

These attributes will enable Jaguar to offer a wider variety of vehicles, with exhilarating performance, top speeds of over 300km/h, as well as emissions below 100g of CO2 per km.

Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum said, "We designed the C-X17 from the ground up from a distinct set of principles, a deep sense of what makes a Jaguar: exciting proportions, clean lines, balance of form. Assertive and powerful, yet with a beautiful sensuality about it, the C-X17 is boldly, distinctively Jaguar."