- ANCAP gives award-winning Jaguar F-PACE five-star safety rating for all variants
- Jaguar's most popular selling model in Australia receives impressive overall rating with high scores in all main safety categories
- Fastest-selling Jaguar features intelligent safety technologies including Autonomous Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection, Forward Traffic Detection and Driver Condition Monitoring
- F-PACE available with efficient and responsive diesel and petrol powertrains, with prices from $72 510 + ORC
Sydney, Australia, 14 December 2017 – The Jaguar F-PACE performance SUV has added a five-star ANCAP rating to its 2017 World Car of the Year title.
The performance SUV, which also won 2017 World Car Design of the Year at the 2017 World Car Awards, scored 93% for adult occupant protection, 85% for child occupant protection and 80% for pedestrian protection.
Combining award winning design, innovative engineering and now a five-star safety rating marks the F-PACE out as the ultimate family car. This result also confirms the current PACE family's safety status following the recent award of five stars to the all-new E-PACE compact SUV.
ANCAP Chief Executive, Mr. James Goodwin said "High scores were achieved in all physical crash tests and performance assessments. AEB is provided as a standard feature along with forward collision and lane departure warning systems."
F-PACE features advanced safety technology such as Autonomous Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection, as standard, which can detect a collision risk with cars or pedestrians in the road ahead and automatically apply the brakes. The system performed well, scoring maximum points in pedestrian tests as well as avoiding or mitigating all of the inter-urban scenarios.
"The Jaguar F-PACE combines award winning design and engineering with exceptional safety. The lightweight aluminium intensive body of the 2017 World Car of the Year provides excellent protection alongside the dynamic performance customers expect from a Jaguar."
Nick Rogers, Executive Director, Product Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover
The F-PACE has become the fastest-selling Jaguar ever, with the 100,000th vehicle recently rolling off the production line at Jaguar Land Rover's Solihull manufacturing facility. The performance SUV has received more than 70 global awards, including the 2017 World Car of the Year and World Car Design of the Year titles.
The F-PACE features an aluminium intensive architecture with six airbags to create a super-strong occupant safety cell allied with a suite of advanced driver assistance systems. The combination of active and passive safety measures helped deliver a five-star ANCAP rating.
- Autonomous Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection: provides an audible forward collision warning and should the driver not take action, applies the brakes to help reduce the severity of a collision or prevent it
- Forward Traffic Detection: is able to detect items crossing the path of the vehicle. It then provides a visual warning on the central screen when a potential hazard is detected
- Adaptive Cruise Control with Queue Assist: automatically reduces speed should the vehiclew ahead slow down and, once the road ahead is clear, will resume its pre-set speed
- Lane Keep Assist: detects unintentional lane drift and can guide the driver back towards the centre by applying a small amount of counter-steering
- Reverse Traffic Monitor: warns the driver of vehicles, pedestrians or other hazards approaching from either side of the vehicle, providing audio and visual alerts
- Driver Condition Monitor: senses driver fatigue by monitoring steering, brake and accelerator inputs to provide alerts when tiredness is detected
- Blind Spot Assist: alerts the driver to vehicles in, or fast approaching, the blind spot with a flashing warning light and will guide the car safely away if the vehicle begins to change lanes
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Editors' notes:
About Jaguar
Jaguar's heritage of elegant design and breathtaking performance has excited and delighted the world for more than 80 years. Today's world-class Jaguar family embodies the Art of Performance and will grow again in 2018 with the all-electric I-PACE performance SUV, joining the remarkable, much admired and award-winning XE, XF and XJ saloons, the dramatic F-TYPE sports car, the F-PACE performance crossover – the fastest-selling Jaguar ever – and the all-new E-PACE compact performance SUV.
About the Jaguar F-PACE
Jaguar's first performance SUV, the F-PACE went on sale in April 2016 and has become the fastest-selling Jaguar ever, achieving global sales success and receiving numerous global awards. It offers powertrains from the four-cylinder 2.0-litre Ingenium diesel with 132kW/430Nm, to the 3.0-litre 280kW supercharged petrol V6 engine taken from the F-TYPE.