New Jaguar Type 00 concept revealed as British brand pushes towards a luxury EV future

The Jaguar Type 00 is a precursor to a four-door GT car due to be revealed next summer ahead of first deliveries in late 2026, and the name, pronounced “type-zero-zero” combines Jaguar’s historic use of the word “type” with 00 to signify both the resetting of the brand and its zero-emission future.

“Type 00 is the first lines ever drawn for new Jaguar – its origin story,” said managing director Rawdon Glover, describing the dramatically styled car that features a bluff front end, long bonnet, sweeping roofline and coupé fastback profile with huge rear arches, as well as the brand’s new multiple-line strikethrough design element on the front, rear, bonnet, roof and dashboard.

Auto Express saw the concept at a secret preview event last month, and the blunt, upright nose looks more impactful in the metal than in the arty rendering shots Jaguar has chosen to release. The side profile has been kept deliberately clean, with the brass ingots featuring the revised Jaguar ‘leaper’ logo housing pop-out rear view cameras, and the concept riding on huge 23-inch wheels.

Jaguar has gone without a rear window for the tailgate, a feature that previously published shots of a disguised production car hint will be carried over due to the lack of a visible rear view mirror.

The development car does, though, have actual wing mirrors, rather than the pop-out cameras that feature on the Type 00 concept. The strikethrough design element on the rear houses full-width rear lighting sitting centrally between the huge arches.
The stripped-back interior, accessed via rising ‘butterfly’ doors, features a 3.2-metre brass spine that splits the pair of large digital screens which can be folded away for a “digital detox”, at which point the key driver information is shown on the slender display running round the base of the windscreen.

“The past decade has seen Jaguar pursue a mass-volume strategy and the cars have not been distinctive enough,” said Jaguar Land Rover chief executive Adrian Mardell. “This is the time to do something special.”

Jaguar Land Rover chief creative officer Gerry McGovern added: “We don’t want to appeal to everyone; the car will shock. It will take the Jaguar brand back to when it was a manufacturer truly loved because it was unique; we needed to create something that was jaw-dropping and never seen before.”