- Jaguar F-TYPE receives Sporting category honours
- Range Rover receives Scottish Luxury Car of the Year award
- Range Rover Sport named SUV of the Year
(Glasgow, 12th October 2013) - Jaguar Land Rover achieved a remarkable triple success at the 2013 Scottish Car of the Year Awards, with honours going to the new Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Jaguar F-TYPE sports car.
The Jaguar F-TYPE beat stiff competition to win the Sporting category award, impressing the judges - some of Scotland's most important motoring journalists - with its elegant design, formidable performance and impressive customer appeal.
Alisdair Suttie, President of the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers, said: "We have waited a very long time for the Jaguar F-TYPE, more than four decades in fact, but this year's Sporting winner does it with panache. It also does it with elegance, superb performance and complete desirability."
Ian Callum, Jaguar Director of Design, accepted the award at a ceremony in Glasgow and commented: "This award is a wonderful recognition of the efforts invested in creating the new F-TYPE. It is a sports car that reaffirms the brand's sporting heritage in both its performance and design."
Range Rover received the Best Luxury Car Award, an acknowledgement of how Land Rover has continued to develop the quality, comfort and refinement of the fourth generation vehicle.
Alisdair Suttie said: "Luxury comes in many forms, but the Range Rover brings together such a broad range of talents, it stands head and shoulders above the competition. It also brings innovative design, supreme comfort and world-beating style."
The accolade adds to a growing list of industry awards for the new Range Rover, including luxury car of the year titles from What Car? and Top Gear Magazine.
The all-new Range Rover Sport was also named Scottish SUV of the Year. Sharing the same lightweight construction principles with its larger sibling, and built on the same highly efficient production line at Land Rover's Solihull plant, the new Range Rover Sport has made significant advances in handling, performance and customer appeal.
"A good SUV has to be many things: good looking, roomy, comfortable and ideally great both on road and off," said Alisdair Suttie. "Thanks to an all-aluminium lightweight body that has helped it lose 400kg, the latest Range Rover Sport is all those things, as well as being much faster and surprisingly economical.
"Factor in the availability of a seven-seat option and we think this is the best SUV available on the roads of Scotland today."
The Range Rover and Range Rover Sport awards were accepted by Fiona Pargeter, Head of Global PR Communications, Jaguar Land Rover, who commented: "Scotland is a key market for Land Rover, so we are extremely proud to receive these awards, and value the recognition they make of Land Rover raising the bar for quality and performance in the premium SUV market."
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For further information log onto www.uk.media.landrover.com, www.media.jaguar.com or contact:
Land Rover UK:
Lucy
Reynolds
PR Manager
T: 02476 564 161
M: 07801
699928
E: lreyno25@landrover.com
Kim Palmer
Senior Press Officer
T: 02476 564 129
M: 07795 666169
E: kpalmer@landrover.com
Rachel Murray
Press Officer
T: 02476 564 127
M: 07780 494282
E: rmurra73@landrover.com
Jaguar UK:
Dan Connell
Global Brand PR and Communications Manager
T: +44 (0)7880 177307
E: dconnel1@jaguarlandrover.com
Alexina Jackson
Press Officer, Jaguar UK
T: +44 2476 564124
E: ajackson@jaguarlandrover.com
Notes to Editors:
Since 1948 Land Rover has been manufacturing authentic 4x4s that represent true breadth of capability across the model range. Defender, Freelander, Discovery, Range Rover Sport, Range Rover and Range Rover Evoque each define the world's 4x4 sectors. Land Rover products are currently sold in approximately 180 global markets.
F-TYPE KEY FACTS:
- The F-TYPE is an all-new, two-seater, Jaguar sports car
- A front-engined, rear-wheel drive convertible, the F-TYPE is engineered to deliver pure dynamic driving reward and stunning performance
- Visually, the F-TYPE's exterior demonstrates a new sports car design language for Jaguar, with cleaner lines delivered through the discreet use of technology such as deployable spoiler and door handles
- The F-TYPE's interior features a driver-focused philosophy, with engaging controls encased in dramatic architecture. Unique technical grains tailor the trim materials, further differentiating the dual-cockpit cabin
- Three models will be available - F-TYPE, F-TYPE S and the F-TYPE V8 S. They are powered respectively by Jaguar's new 3.0-litre V6 supercharged petrol engine in 340PS and 380PS outputs and its 5.0-litre V8 supercharged petrol producing 495PS
- The range-topping F-TYPE V8S will reach 60mph in 4.2 seconds and has a top speed of 186mph. The 380PS V6 F-TYPE S will reach 60mph in 4.8 seconds and 171mph, the equivalent figures for the F-TYPE are 5.1 seconds and 161mph
- The Jaguar F-TYPE is on sale in the UK priced from £58,500 (V6)
