Despite having revealed precisely zero new cars this year, Jaguar has been in the news a lot lately. The British luxury brand spiked most of its lineup in November 2024 in a controversial rebrand, with a funky concept called the Type 00 at its center.
Jaguar revealed a new logo and promised to go all-electric, but the company hadn’t totally shut out its recent past. For the past year, it’s still been building a gas-powered car, its F-Pace SUV. Well, it was still building that car. According to the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club, the last F-Pace rolled off the line at its Solihull plant in the United Kingdom this past Friday, December 19, 2025.
If Jaguar’s plans to become an EV luxury powerhouse are set in stone, that means the black F-Pace SVR that rolled off the line is the last gas-powered Jaguar ever. That is, unless Jaguar takes my advice.
I Always Liked The F-Pace
The F-Pace was Jaguar’s first SUV, having first gone on sale in 2016. The Ian Callum design dates back further than that, though, to the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2013, where the original C-X17 concept was shown.
The move from concept to production saw much of the design carry over, resulting in a sleek, athletic crossover that—in this writer’s opinion—outshined anything from Germany on the looks front.
Having driven a few F-Paces, it wasn’t just looks that made this SUV appealing. The larger footprint and taller ride height didn’t really take away from the agility you’d normally expect from a vehicle with a prancing cat on the trunklid.
In its base form, the F-Pace was a legitimately enjoyable car, and definitely more fun than a Mercedes GLC, Audi Q5, or BMW X3. To get something more exciting, you’d have to spend a bunch more for a Porsche Macan, or risk it all on the reliability front with an Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
The F-Pace SVR, meanwhile, with its 550-horsepower supercharged V8, was a truly silly performance SUV. It was smaller and lighter than its Range Rover Sport SV sibling, but made the same power and the same amazing sounds.
According to the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club, it was an F-Pace SVR that was chosen to be the final car to roll off the line, painted in black.
Let’s Be Realistic Here
By all accounts, that black SVR will be the very last gas-powered Jaguar ever. The brand has promised to shift to an all-electric lineup, with a production version of the Type 00 leading the way. I think that’s a bad decision.
Like my colleague David, I believe that electric cars are, in fact, the future. There’s no stopping them, and one day, I believe the vast majority of cars on the road will be solely powered by batteries. But the future isn’t now. People don’t want EVs right now; they want hybrids. Jaguar is walking itself into a market that doesn’t exist yet.
The company isn’t unaware of this fact. Jaguar’s U.S. boss Brandon Baldassari told me as such back in August, when he revealed to me the brand has “very realistic volume expectations” for the Type 00 when it goes on sale. It’s worth noting that this was before the U.S. ended its federal tax credit for EVs and the EU backed down on its gas engine ban, so those expectations might be even more “realistic” now.
Leaning fully into the EV space brackets Jaguar into a realm that’s currently struggling. Sales were down a massive 40% last month, and without serious government intervention in the form of regulations, that number likely won’t improve any time soon.
Surely, Jaguar has more products in the pipeline after the Type 00. If they want to be anything more than a hyper-niche competitor to the Cadillac Celestiq, my advice would be to make sure those products have gas-powered range extenders. Scout Motors, with its range-extended EVs, and Ford, with its range-extended F-150 Lightning, have already figured this out. People want hybrids, not EVs. Brands like Tesla, Lucid, and Rivian are too stubborn to follow this concept, but Jaguar still has a chance to make the right decision.
If it’s smart, the F-Pace won’t be the last gas-powered Jaguar, and this send-off will be a small footnote in the company’s long, illustrious history.
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