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Ian Callum, Jaguar’s chief designer and a man who proves that you can combine a powerful job with a genial personality, has done possibly his best job yet with the I-Pace, creating an electric car that looks unmistakably like an expensive, desirable, dynamic Jaguar, and also sufficiently different and futuristic. The silhouette is sleek and punchy, with a shallow roofline touching a boxy rump. Inside, the leather seats look fantastic in red, and the I-Pace takes JLR’s dual touchscreen, one positioned above the other, to give lots of information but with clever graphics that simplify the experience. There are all the functions you’d expect from a car costing almost £70,000: satnav that calculates electric range and charging possibilities, heated and cooled seats, passenger air-con, voice control, great audio…
One of Ian Callum’s main talking points on the I-Pace is the cab-forward design, which pushes the driver towards the front wheels, creating more space in the back without having to lengthen the footprint, and with the advantage of making the driver feel more in control of the car’s movements.