Exactly one week ago, we brought to our esteemed luxury automotive buffs a story of the grand launch of the all-new Jaguar F-Pace in Port Elizabeth, South Africa for the sub-Saharan African markets. This time around the new luxury on-wheels has broken cover into the Nigerian market.
Coscahris Motors, owners of the Jaguar Land Rover franchise in Nigeria announced the arrival of the F-Pace at a grand occasion that coincided with this year’s Tech+ Exhibition inside the Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
And the strategic reasons for sharing the launch platform with Techie+ event according to company sources is not unconnected with the fact that the F-Pace customer is aware of the latest trends and embraces technology and design.
F-Pace is the first SUV from the Jaguar lineage and is being positioned to offer Nigerians something entirely new from the long list of Sports Utility Vehicles in the country. It is first SUV from the Jaguar lineage positioned to offer customers something entirely new from the long list of SUVs the country.
Designed as the ultimate practical sports car, the all-new Jaguar F-Pace combines sport handling and dramatic beauty with everyday practicality and efficiency.
Jaguar has taken enough time to engineer the all-new F-Pace to achieve the best balance of dynamics, handling, refinement and efficiency. It also offers practicality in the form of class leading loading space, rear legroom and state-of-the-art technological features.
According to Okey Nwuke, deputy group managing director of Coscharis Group, standing in for Cosmas Maduka, President/CEO of the group; ‘’My gut feeling on seeing this car- the-new Jagaur F-PACE, is that, it promises to excite the senses of a new generation of Jaguar owners’’.
Jaguar’s first crossover caters to confident and ambitious individauls who have their own style and like taking risks, even as its audience would want to stand out from the crowd and be recognised for their achievements.
This is especially when this demography lives active life and seeks to fill every moment with distinctive experiences. Another amazing aspect of the new latest arrival is that its fuel consumption is so superb.
Fuel consumption is so outstanding a a result of usage of state-of-the-art computional fluid dynamics simulations and applying lessons learnt from the XE and all-new XF siblings. The new arrival has coefficient of only 0.34, helping to reduce fuel consumption and improve refinement.
When he mounted the platform to speak about the latest offering from the British AutOmaker, Cosmas Maduka, said the vehicle is adequately fortified for the Nigerian market in terms of safety, comfort and security.
He recalled that his first direct encounter with the F-Pace was in Miami, United State of America (USA) in March this year, and expressed delight that the stage is set for the new vehicle to do exploit within the SUV segment in Nigeria.
During a pre-launch address before the quality crowd that had gathered to be part of history Abiona Babarinde general manager, corporate services and marketing assured prospective customers of the new model of getting good returns on investment for choosing the F-Pace.
Ufuoma Umukoro, deputy general manager who highlighted technical details of the F-Pace informed the audience that it is presently the first and only SUV with navigational aid for West Africa,
As he put it, “just type your destination within West Africa and the F-Pace will take you there”. Coscharis Motors has also put in place sophisticated after sales outlets to cater for the maintenance requirements of the new SUV.
MIKE OCHONMA
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