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The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city

October 7, 2026 Guardian Money 1 min read
Guardian Money · Leans Left
The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city

Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks, and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’

The cutting-edge car du jour, even while very few will ever buy one, is a good index of what the world’s coming to. It’s a dress-for-the-job-you-want principle, on wheels: drive for the world you want to inhabit.

That’s why when Tesla launched the Model X with a bioweapon defence mode (2016!), we should have been much more worried than we were, and it’s why the Jaguar Type 01 Grand Tourer EV has a lot to say.

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