Driving Jaguar’s potent F-Pace SVR 575 Ultimate Edition SUV – one of just 60 as the last of the line Jaguar V8’s – Jaguar will navigate a new future from January 1, all electric and reconfigured into an upper luxury range, the Jaguar leaper badge gone, a whole new beginning after 90 years which the company admits will lose up to 85 percent of its current customer base. The 5-litre supercharged F-Pace SVR 575 Ultimate Edition a stunning SUV and one that will become a collector’s item in time – super powerful, super luxurious and the test car I’m driving in Sorrento yellow, super special – hard to fault in performance, features, comfort, dynamics and price – $182,000 far cheaper than a Range Rover Sport P530 and far more exciting – the 5.0-litre V8 with 700Nm of torque and 8-speed automatic with steering wheel shift paddles inspiring. A full gamut of active driver assist systems, not intrusive, although the speed limit alert can become an annoyance. But fabulous brakes which you need when you have a 2133kg steed with 0 to 100km/hour acceleration of just 4 seconds. This Jaguar F-Pace SVR 575 Ultimate Edition the final act in what has been a wonderful 90 years of Jaguar grace and pace.

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