Jaguar F-PACE: A New Benchmark for Ride and Handling

Jaguar presents its performance SUV the F-PACE, which features sports-car derived chassis system that is evaluated on the same demanding roads as all other Jaguar vehicles. F-PACE will offer an unrivaled breadth of dynamic ability. Both passengers and drivers will experience a blend of agility and comfort from the F-PACE, which will be unmatched in its segment. Be it the twisty mountain roads, or country roads or for that matter even cruising on high-speed motorway, F-PACE will deliver precision and responsiveness with immaculate refinement and composure.

Mike Cross, chief engineer of vehicle Integrity said “We haven’t made any compromises or exceptions: the new F-PACE had to be a true Jaguar and had to deliver the dynamics DNA.” He further added “We’ve tested ride and handling to the limit in all environments and in all conditions, and the result is that the new F-PACE is as engaging and rewarding to drive as it is comfortable and quiet. As soon as you get into the vehicle you know immediately that it’s a good place to be.”

F-PACE was developed by incorporating Jaguar’s Lightweight Aluminium Architecture, which help its handling in terms of precision and provides control without sacrificing ride comfort. To help the F-PACE to be incredibly responsive, while ensuring that the impacts, undulations and extreme cambers of even the most challenging roads are handled with ease, Jaguar has used inherently high stiffness of the car's structure to it’s advantage. The car features a double wishbone front suspension and Integral Link rear suspension.

The steering quality is said to be class leading, courtesy to its electric power-assisted steering system. The car incorporates Jaguar's learning from the F-TYPE sportscar. F-PACE delivers outstanding agility in all weathers and on all surfaces, thanks to its torque vectoring technology, which was first developed for the F-TYPE as the torque on-demand all-wheel drive system.

The assessments made by Jaguar’s vehicle integrity team are fed into the computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools used by the vehicle dynamics CAE team. This makes testing and development more efficient, which in turn helps gather better simulation results and vice-versa.