New ultra-lavish, fiveseater model of Jaguar C-X17 debuts at 2013 Automobile Guangzhou, further emphasizing the flexibility of Jaguar's sports crossover idea for the urban environment

The C - X17, produced for China, has a spacious, luxurious and progressive cottage featuring bespoke, high-quality, typically Britishinspired interior finishes and components, along with complex technologies including:

Interactive Area Console multi-display infotainment network which connects all travellers to the external world and together via onboard protected Wi-Fi and social networking stations.
Rear Exit Detection to guard against approaching blindspot items, for example bicyclists, while opening the car doors.
The plan research showcases nextgeneration lightweight systems in the appearance of Jaguar's allnew complex aluminium monocoque buildings, that'll form the foundation for a recent variety of potential Jaguars, beginning with a midsize premium C/D section sedan on-sale in 2015.

A variety of engines, including new highoutput, fuelefficient petrol and diesel engines to be assembled at Jaguar Land Rover's forthcoming UK engine production facility, will allow Jaguar to provide new vehicles with both category-leading efficiency and emissions.

The Jaguar C-X17 showcases British superior sound business Meridian's vision for the future of in-auto 3D surround-sound, with a jewel-set 28-speaker system which blends the progressive systems of the DSP8000 and M6 house loudspeakers with bespoke style matched to the automobile's interior aesthetics.

Breaking new ground

As the Jaguar C - X17 stretches the layout possibilities of the section by combining the nature and driving experience of the sports car with versatility, type as well as increased presence, a sports crossover. The sports crossover concept symbolizes the possible growth of Jaguar's portfolio of body types, with all the associated improvement of the brand's relevance and allure to a wider international audience.

Soul of the Jaguar

The C-X17 notion illustrates the variety of vehicles that may be created using Jaguar's complex new design. A fiveseater sports crossover concept created around the aluminum - intensive design, the C - X17 blends smooth lines, athletic performance and lavish sophistication with a certain driving position and increased practicality.

Fiveseat interior

Jaguar Land Rover designers produced the inside particularly for China. The seats are lightweight models using a sculpted freestanding look, visually improving the airiness of the cottage, with headrests which are adorned with perforated C-X17 lettering.

Roof was sculpted by panoramic

The designers of the C-X17 have built the inside of the roof from some sculpted vanes working from front to back, carefully arranged in parallel and incorporated in the header and cant rails. They may be contoured on the low side to build additional headroom, and formed to make a ring of area that allows a view of the heavens above, giving a feeling to the residents of openness.

Superior twotone leather trim

The inside of the C - X17 is just a juxtaposition of contemporary finishing techniques and superior conventional materials. Designers drew inspiration from an assortment of resources, from lattice and extruded aluminium lampshades - framed stools to jackets, premium leather shoes and handbags.

Famous British leather professionals Bridge of Connolly and Weir, the standard names in superior automotive cabin craftsmanship, produced the bespoke leather panels specifically for those C - X17. The 3mm-thick Connolly saddle leather includes a distinctive perforation design-inspired by conventional Brogue patterns plus a handpainted border, giving the inside of the vehicle an elegant yet modern feel, and features groups of sewing to raise the passenger's tactile experience of those surfaces.

The Jaguar C-X17's inside door end is really a waxed Clay Walnut wood veneer. For the inside steel finishes, ruthenium can be used as opposed to brightwork, making a darker, more tonal impact that satisfies the subtle, superior feel of the cottage, and also the top surface panels of the Interactive Surface Console are laseretched with a Brogue-inspired design.

Multipassenger interactivity

The C-X17 requires interactivity and incar infotainment to a brand new degree together with the exceptional Interactive Surface Console that runs the length of the automobile's centre tunnel, in the dash through to the back cabin space, only behind the front seats. Comprising the number of interconnecting touch-screens encased in clear acrylic glass, the Interactive Area Console connects those in the back cabin with all the driver and front-seat passengers using a protected in-auto Wi-Fi network. The Interactive Area Console enables the car occupants to add graphics, video and sound documents from their mobile phones and discuss them with their fellow travellers, also on Weibo and other social networking stations.

Jaguar C-X17 Concept - 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show

Ultra-superior Meridian speakers

The C-X17's 3D surround-sound setup, from British audio specialists Meridian, features an allnew architectural loudspeaker place in line with the organization's built-in sound/design fundamentals of uncompromised performance provided via a tasteful, legitimate and consistent sound. The 28-loudspeaker system provides advanced loudspeaker places like the consolidation of speakers in the An and B-pillars to provide a genuinely authentic audio picture. The Meridian sub-woofer 'back to back' engineering is jewel-set between the ends of the front part of the back seats to supply consistent and precise low-frequency reproduction for each passenger. Height speakers are place within the peak of the head restraints to give the right awareness of picture height, empowering each passenger to appreciate a private and much more legitimate musical experience. The allnew sonic architecture enables Meridian's proprietary Trifield 3D technologies to divulge its total capacities of providing evocative and plausible sound for everybody.

For China, the most recent C - X17 has-been created with a much greater focus on security. The newest version features Back Exit Detection, an advanced program which uses sensors to warn leaving passengers of fast-approaching dangers, for example bicyclists and mopeds, which are within the course of the automobile's opening doors. The device is really a ctivated while the passenger places their hand to the door handle, illuminating a concealed - until - lit icon within the pillar trim if there's a possible risk as the consequence of an approaching risk that identifies.

Milled aluminium vents to the seats, console and doors reflect the pattern of the mesh.

Elegance of percentage

Using a crossover being a fresh journey for Jaguar, Manager of his staff and Design Ian Callum were clear the C - X17 wouldn't compromise in the values of Jaguar vehicle design: purity of form, attractiveness of line and equilibrium of symmetry. The C - X17 must be sporty, stylish and exciting, whilst it subscribed to the practicalities anticipated of the crossover group. It needed to immediately stand out of the group, yet keep the awareness of classic sophistication that's commonly Jaguar.

When it comes to form, it's quick and slick, counting on pure lines instead of hyperbole or showmanship. The headlamps suggestion in the C-X17's sedan siblings whilst the grille is inspired by the XJ, producing a distinctive family look that's reassuringly familiar yet distinctively appealing. The grille includes a hexagonal design, with little aluminium panels within its construction that may close to accentuate the automobile's aerodynamic qualities.

The accentuated duration of the windows increases the automobile's general awareness of sleekness.

The back of the vehicle has a distinguishing bit of sports-car about this, together with the haunch, tail-lights and detailing all bringing to mind the alluring Jaguar F-Type.

The outside of the C - X17 is painted with a lustrous Liquid Gold liquidmetal end.

Allnew architecture: underpinning the near future

The very Jaguar to be shipped in the brand new architecture is a fresh midsize (C / D) section premium sedan, that will be rolledout internationally from 2015. The primary aluminium monocoque merchandise in its section, the brand new sedan will be created with an allnew, ultra hightech manufacturing facility in Solihull, creating new jobs and considerable chances for the provider base.

The aluminum - intensive design will be modular and scalable, supplying a high level of flexibility and to be able to create a broader bandwidth of derivatives and versions than previously. It's lightweight, incredibly powerful and incorporates advanced technologies that emphasise Jaguar's dedication to sustainability, like a fresh highstrength alloy made from nearly 100% recycled raw-material. The design has been carefully created to completely integrate each of the car characteristics proven by Jaguar engineers. All merchandise will perform like true Jaguars, the extent and versatility of the architecture ensuring the individual nature of every one.

Jaguar design and engineering teams collaborated closely in the architecture's development from the beginning to ensure flexibility of design coupled with fully competitive inside packaging. The versatility this architecture provides ensures that Jaguar designers and engineers can employ the doctrine "anything we can imagine, we can produce," to produce a fresh portfolio of merchandise less confined by technical or making constraints. The flexibility of the new design will empower the fabrication of various products on the same production-line at the same time. The highly-efficient, state-of-theart production process will permit fast response to variations in market demand for individual versions by balancing production quantity consequently.

Powertrains

Future Jaguars will probably be powered by engines with a broad variety of capacities and output, all providing inspirational performance and providing the most recent innovations in technologies, without sacrificing drivability or sense.

These complex, highoutput engines will likely be assembled at Jaguar Land Rover's new UK motor production facility, now under construction within a GBP500 million investment, that will likely be functional from 2015. These vehicles can also be intended to be driven by the powerful V6 petrol-engine seen within the Jaguar F-Type sports-car, which, along with the lightweight buildings, will bestow them with best-in-group specific power output as within the F-Type. Together, the group of engines offer the very best of both worlds and produce allencompassing capacities: athletic performance and category-top fuel-efficiency and CO2 emissions.

Finetuned agility

Like a sports crossover, the C-X17 notion features an onroad bias, and its own low-height, optimised centre of gravity and light-weight allaluminium body endow it with exceptional, auto-like driving dynamics, both in urban environments and from the open-road.

Reassuring ability

With its 213mm of ground clearance and smart AllWheel Drive, the Jaguar C-X17 would also provide reassuring capacity and increased traction on bad roads and in different weather conditions. Jaguar's intelligent AllWheel Drive system constantly tracks grip ranges and driver inputs and utilizes feedforward torque distribution to both preempt and respond to wheelslip, providing greater driver confidence and vehicle stability in lowgrip conditions. In ordinary traction circumstances, drive is predominantly delivered by the system to the back wheels, supplying the dynamic driving experience all Jaguars are celebrated for.

2015 Jaguar CX-17 SUV Concept - Exterior Walkaround - 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show