BUYER’S GUIDE: Jaguar I-Pace

Running costs

253-298 miles (EV400)

£13-£22 approx. fill-up

Performance

0-62mph/top speed

4.5 seconds/124mph

JAGUAR celebrates its centenary this year, and for decades it was held back by traditional styling cues that made its cars seem old-fashioned, even if they weren’t.

But in 2008 Jaguar broke free from its shackles and launched the XF, a car that looked like nothing previously built by the company. Over the coming years we would see a succession of models that ditched Jaguar’s sixties styling themes, with the firm’s first SUV, the F-Pace, arriving in 2016.

When the I-Pace EV was launched in 2017 the transformation was complete; Jaguar had an electric SUV before any of its rivals could offer one – and a deeply impressive one at that.