The Jaguar C-X16 is a 2-doors Coupe from Jaguar, built from 2011, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 3-litre supercharged Jaguar AJ126 V6 petrol engine. Ian Callum drew it.
The story
The Jaguar C-X16 is a concept hybrid electric sports car that was unveiled by Jaguar Cars at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show on 13 September. In April 2012, Jaguar announced that they will be manufacturing a new sports car based on the Jaguar C-X16 called the F-Type, which was subsequently shown to the public (in non-hybrid form) at the Paris Motor Show in September 2012.
What is underneath
Power comes from 3-litre supercharged Jaguar AJ126 V6 petrol engine. It weighs 1600 kg. It shifts through a 8-speed ZF automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Jaguar F-Type. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lamborghini Aventador, the Tesla Model X, the Nissan Leaf — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Jaguar catalogue sit the F-Type and the Vanden Plas.