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I met some of the i-Pace design team at Goodwood over the weekend.
pieces of information that maybe useful for some.
- The UK dealer demos and showroom cars are all expected in the Uk this week and demos should be available from next week.
- Cars come in via boat landing at Hull and their is a holding facility somewhere near there.
- The time it takes to build the car have it arrive in the UK, delivered to dealer PDI'd ect is 1 month. An area they claim can be improved as there are some unnecessary delays / risk factors built into planning.
- In the UK nearly 40% of all orders have been for first edition cars which was not what Jaguar were expecting and there is shortage of some parts (Matrix headlights was the example given). If you change your order by upgrading an SE to a HSE or FE or adding Matrix headlights as an option your delivery date will be impacted.
- Apparently there is a maximum quota of First editions and in the UK this is nearing completion.
- Apple car play, on all cars already it is disabled due to not yet having the Apple approval, once this is done it is a OTA update to enable. Apple approval expected any day.
- Range. Two of the people have had their own I-Paces for some time. when asking about real world range and their journeys to Goodwood. One driver will manage to do the round trip without recharging and is expecting 240 Miles. The other openly said he drove down very quickly with the Aircon and cooled seats on and is expecting 200 Miles and will need to stop for a quick charge to make it home. There is a number of Jaguar employees having a competition for the best range and it is achievable to get 300 (even more) but driving around slowly in the summer with no Aircon isn't my idea of fun.
The goodwood show provided an opportunity to see the three I-paces on show their and I changed my HSE order configuration adding performance seats, changing the alloy wheel design. these changes didn't affect my delivery date, roll on ends of September
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I really wanted the First Edition but we could not get past the brown wood inlays, it doesn't suit the car at all and the designers I spoke to agreed and they seemed frustrated as they originally had a carbon design but it was mandated it was something that needed to look backwards in regard to Jaguars heritage.
pieces of information that maybe useful for some.
- The UK dealer demos and showroom cars are all expected in the Uk this week and demos should be available from next week.
- Cars come in via boat landing at Hull and their is a holding facility somewhere near there.
- The time it takes to build the car have it arrive in the UK, delivered to dealer PDI'd ect is 1 month. An area they claim can be improved as there are some unnecessary delays / risk factors built into planning.
- In the UK nearly 40% of all orders have been for first edition cars which was not what Jaguar were expecting and there is shortage of some parts (Matrix headlights was the example given). If you change your order by upgrading an SE to a HSE or FE or adding Matrix headlights as an option your delivery date will be impacted.
- Apparently there is a maximum quota of First editions and in the UK this is nearing completion.
- Apple car play, on all cars already it is disabled due to not yet having the Apple approval, once this is done it is a OTA update to enable. Apple approval expected any day.
- Range. Two of the people have had their own I-Paces for some time. when asking about real world range and their journeys to Goodwood. One driver will manage to do the round trip without recharging and is expecting 240 Miles. The other openly said he drove down very quickly with the Aircon and cooled seats on and is expecting 200 Miles and will need to stop for a quick charge to make it home. There is a number of Jaguar employees having a competition for the best range and it is achievable to get 300 (even more) but driving around slowly in the summer with no Aircon isn't my idea of fun.
The goodwood show provided an opportunity to see the three I-paces on show their and I changed my HSE order configuration adding performance seats, changing the alloy wheel design. these changes didn't affect my delivery date, roll on ends of September
.I really wanted the First Edition but we could not get past the brown wood inlays, it doesn't suit the car at all and the designers I spoke to agreed and they seemed frustrated as they originally had a carbon design but it was mandated it was something that needed to look backwards in regard to Jaguars heritage.
