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700 MILES ACROSS EUROPE IN JAGUAR’S TESLA FIGHTER

Jabbeke was the making of the Jaguar XK120. On May 30, 1949, a prototype of the iconic English sports car was timed at 132.6 mph along a closed section of freeway just outside this Belgian town.

Seven decades on, Jabbeke looks like the breaking of the Jaguar I-Pace—the all-wheel-drive electric crossover that’s as significant a Jaguar as the XK120. We’re plugged into the third fast charger we’ve found in the area, but energy is trickling into the battery. We arrived with 12 miles of range left. We could be here all night.

Why we here? In the 1960s, Denis Jenkinson, the “continental correspondent” for Britain’s magazine—and the man who’d ridden alongside Stirling Moss en route to

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