Jaguar XE History
History
The XE entered production in April 2015 as Jaguar's true successor to the X-Type — a rear-wheel-drive compact executive saloon built on a new aluminium-intensive architecture and aimed squarely at the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes C-Class.
It anchored the lower end of Jaguar's range until the brand's combustion wind-down; production ended in 2024. Its most extreme version, the limited XE SV Project 8, was a track-focused supercharged V8 special from Jaguar's Special Vehicle Operations.
Body styles
- 4-door saloon
Notable special editions & performance variants
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XE SV Project 8
A limited-run, ~592-hp supercharged V8 special from Special Vehicle Operations — for a time the fastest production saloon around the Nürburgring.
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