Our I-Pace Build and Delivery date are scheduled... Yeah!

First off, congratulations:

Let us know when you get the car how well they met this schedule. <grins>

Where is the car built? I understand a UK shop designed it but with all the tariff nonsense going on, where a car is built helps identify the likely costs.

Bob Wilson

 

2 of the Jaguar dealers in the Chandler and Scottsdale area are now taking orders for the I-Pace. The Chandler dealer already has DC Fast Chargers in and working ready for the I=Pace. The Scottsdale location has them in progress. I rent out my Tesla model 3 and want to order an I-Pace but they don't have the non leather interior option yet. I think it would rent out well on Turo but many don't want leather like me so I have to wait.
At least Jaguar is getting ready with the DC Fast Chargers. It works great on my Chevy Spark EV with the CCS port when I tried them out.

 

I would probably get this if getting an EV, but overall cost "per mile" is a bit high, still top among the choices out there to me in regards to size and features. Wish they didn't mix the climate control with dials and "touch" interface so close together. Dials are the way to go.

 

I wonder what the long term condition is for either the leather or faux material. The leather in one if my cars has cracking on the left bolster where it always gets compressed when getting in and out, it was like that in a few years.

 

I played with the configurator on the Jag web page. The base starts out relatively reasonable but the amount of option variables is almost brain numbing. By the time I got done with my fantasy build it was way beyond my comfort level.

 

This is typical of high end vehicles. If you add the things you want it's at least 10k+ more. The benefit is you can choose what you want. When I try to configure a Lexus or BMW, etc is the same. I'm sure they make good money on those options and packages.

 

Yeah, there seems to be a lot of different grades of leather these days, so companies can tell you that you have "leather." I've been in some new vehicles and they don't have any smell, although that's mostly chemicals, but mine smells heavily of that leather smell.

 

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/politics/trump-tariffs-european-autos/index.html

Trump threatens 20% tariffs on European autos
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 $87k - base price
 $17k - 20% tariff
$104k - cost before local taxes

Bob Wilson

 

Speculation, I wonder if a tariff could be treated as a pre-paid tax? If so, it may be possible to get an exemption for having already paid the tariff tax.

Bob Wilson

 

Have you received an update from Jaguar about the delivery date?
Is October 24 still the delivery date? or are there any delays?
Thanks