Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01
Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01
捷豹终于揭开了其最大赌注的面纱：Type 01
The day has finally arrived. Jaguar began its long road to electric reinvention in November 2024 with a firestorm of a rebrand featuring no cars. Just a month later, it revealed a prototype: the Type 00—a car so polarizing it practically broke the internet’s automotive enclave. Some loved it; others hated it so much that Jaguar’s own staff were targeted for supposedly betraying the company’s 90-year history.
这一天终于到来了。捷豹于 2024 年 11 月开启了其漫长的电动化重塑之路，当时一场不展示任何汽车的品牌重塑引发了轩然大波。仅仅一个月后，它发布了一款原型车：Type 00——这款车极具争议，几乎引爆了互联网上的汽车圈。有人对它爱不释手，也有人恨之入骨，甚至导致捷豹员工因被指“背叛公司 90 年历史”而遭到攻击。
Since this chaotic but undoubtedly viral launch, major departures have followed, including Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) chief creative officer Gerry McGovern, the notable car designer who signed off on Jaguar’s divisive all-electric design and the no-car ad campaign.
自那次混乱但无疑极具传播力的发布会以来，公司高层相继离职，其中包括捷豹路虎（JLR）首席创意官格里·麦戈文（Gerry McGovern）。这位知名汽车设计师曾为捷豹备受争议的纯电设计和“无车”广告活动背书。
Jaguar’s managing director, Rawdon Glover, is a brave man. Through this shitstorm, and a frighteningly long period of selling no new cars whatsoever, he’s remained unflappable; utterly confident that, when people see the final car—the finished version of the luxury four-door GT that is “like no other”—everything will make sense. That moment is here. The company finally revealed the Jaguar Type 01 at an event in New York City on Tuesday—the finished version of the Type 00. (Jaguar Land Rover paid a portion of WIRED’s travel expenses so we could attend the launch.)
捷豹董事总经理罗登·格洛弗（Rawdon Glover）是一位勇敢的人。在经历这场风暴以及长达数月没有任何新车销售的艰难时期里，他始终保持镇定，并坚信当人们看到最终成品——那款“独一无二”的豪华四门 GT 轿跑车时，一切质疑都会烟消云散。这一时刻终于到来。周二，捷豹在纽约市的活动中正式发布了 Type 01，即 Type 00 的量产版本。（捷豹路虎支付了《连线》杂志部分差旅费用，以便我们参加此次发布会。）
“A bold grand tourer that never arrives unnoticed, like all the best Jaguars of the past,” Jaguar’s press material says. This is most certainly true: you will see this thing coming. The low roofline, short front and extended rear overhangs, long hood, and huge 23-inch wheels all remain from the prototype, just as promised. The cab-rear design hides a 50–50 weight distribution, and the huge surfaces make it hard to square the fact that this is the most aerodynamic Jag ever, with active vanes, a deployable spoiler, and airflow trickery delivering a drag coefficient of 0.23 Cd.
“正如过去所有最优秀的捷豹车型一样，这是一款绝不会被忽视的大胆豪华旅行车。”捷豹的新闻稿如是说。这确实不假：你绝对会注意到它的到来。低矮的车顶线条、短前悬与长后悬、修长的引擎盖以及巨大的 23 英寸轮毂，都如承诺般保留了原型车的设计。座舱后移的设计隐藏了 50:50 的重量分配，而巨大的车身表面让人难以想象这竟是捷豹史上空气动力学表现最好的车型——通过主动式进气格栅、可升降尾翼和气流优化技术，其风阻系数仅为 0.23 Cd。
Crucially, the production model’s extra doors make more sense of the design, shifting the Type 01’s look away from Thunderbirds territory to more familiar ground. The front has been softened ever so slightly as well, which again is preferable to the prototype’s exceedingly bluff nose. The rear, however, is where the exterior design really shines with hidden-until-lit, full-width lights embedded in horizontal strikethroughs.
至关重要的是，量产版增加的车门让整体设计更显合理，使 Type 01 的外观不再像《雷鸟神机队》（Thunderbirds）里的科幻产物，而是回归了更熟悉的领域。前脸也经过了细微的柔化处理，这比原型车过于平直的车头更讨喜。然而，车尾才是外观设计的点睛之笔：贯穿式的灯组嵌入在水平线条中，呈现出“不亮则隐”的视觉效果。
Let’s get the specs out of the way: the Type 01 is the most powerful Jaguar road car, with up to 1,030 Pferdestärke (PS) and 1,365 Newton-meters. It goes from standstill to 62 mph in 3.2 seconds. Justifying the tagline of “power in reserve,” the car can rocket from 62 to 112 mph in a further 4 seconds. I’ve been driven in it, and it feels like the acceleration never ends thanks to the tri-motor setup of a 260-kilowatt (kW) front motor paired with twin 310-kW rear motors.
先来看看参数：Type 01 是捷豹史上动力最强的公路车型，拥有高达 1,030 马力（PS）和 1,365 牛·米的扭矩。它从静止加速到 62 英里/小时（约 100 公里/小时）仅需 3.2 秒。为了印证“动力储备”的口号，该车在 4 秒内即可从 62 英里/小时加速至 112 英里/小时。我曾乘坐过这款车，得益于由一个 260 千瓦（kW）前电机和两个 310 千瓦后电机组成的三电机系统，那种加速感仿佛永无止境。
It stands 5,235 mm long and 1,403 mm tall, but all-wheel steering makes it feel much smaller on the road. The 850-volt bespoke Jaguar architecture and 118-kilowatt-hour usable battery supposedly deliver an EPA range of up to 400 miles (450 miles on WLTP), with a “sustained highway speed” range of up to 320 miles. Drivers can add up to 200 miles of range in 13 minutes using 350 kW rapid DC charging. So the TL;DR? It’s huge, fast, aerodynamic, powerful, and, most definitely, unique.
车身长 5,235 毫米，高 1,403 毫米，但全轮转向系统让它在路上开起来感觉灵活得多。850 伏的捷豹定制架构和 118 千瓦时的可用电池据称可提供高达 400 英里（EPA 标准，WLTP 标准下为 450 英里）的续航里程，在“持续高速行驶”状态下续航可达 320 英里。使用 350 千瓦直流快充，13 分钟即可增加 200 英里的续航。总结一下？它巨大、快速、符合空气动力学、动力强劲，而且绝对独一无二。
Inside, a dramatic central spine runs the full length of the cabin, creating a zone for each occupant. Lots of “brass-inspired” finishes are intended to underline the luxury message. A panoramic glass roof with adjustable virtual blinds brings in the light, but there’s no rear windscreen. Instead, a digital “ClearSight” rearview display is embedded centrally in the full-width panoramic soundbar at the base of the windscreen to show what’s behind. Cleverly, the feed from this rear-facing camera is positioned at the same height as the door mirrors, supposedly reducing the annoying focal adjustment these systems usually demand.
内饰方面，一条极具视觉冲击力的中央脊柱贯穿整个座舱，为每位乘客划分出独立区域。大量“黄铜灵感”的饰面旨在强调豪华感。全景天窗配有可调节的虚拟遮阳帘，引入充足光线，但车尾没有后挡风玻璃。取而代之的是，一个数字化的“ClearSight”后视显示屏嵌入在挡风玻璃底部的全宽全景音箱中，用于显示后方情况。巧妙的是，后视摄像头的画面高度与车门后视镜保持一致，据称这减少了此类系统通常需要的令人烦恼的视线焦点调整。
Ahead of the driver is a 24-inch OLED screen that extends toward the center of the car. A central 7-inch smartphone-style display sits between the driver and front passenger for common controls such as climate and audio, operated entirely by touchscreen with (sadly) no physical switchgear in sight. “Hot stone massage effect” seats, whatever those are, are also electrically adjustable in 12 different ways. Cabin air purification removes allergens, toxins, and particulates, and a fragrance diffuser offers a choice of scents—which seems to be the pinnacle of what Western auto companies think a luxury car interior needs these days.
驾驶员前方是一块延伸至车身中央的 24 英寸 OLED 屏幕。驾驶员和前排乘客之间设有一个 7 英寸的智能手机风格中央显示屏，用于控制空调和音响等常用功能，完全通过触摸屏操作，遗憾的是看不到任何物理按键。座椅具备“热石按摩效果”（虽然不知道具体是什么），并支持 12 向电动调节。车内空气净化系统可去除过敏原、毒素和颗粒物，香氛扩散器提供多种气味选择——这似乎已成为西方汽车公司眼中豪华车内饰的巅峰配置。
As a grand tourer, luggage space is important. The Type 01 offers 450 liters of load space, expanding to 1,000 liters with rear seats folded. And then there are the production stories: Jaguar built more than 150 prototypes, drove 700,000 miles, and filed more than 360 patents while developing the car.
作为一款豪华旅行车，行李空间至关重要。Type 01 提供 450 升的装载空间，后排座椅折叠后可扩展至 1,000 升。此外还有研发背后的故事：捷豹在开发过程中制造了超过 150 台原型车，行驶了 70 万英里，并申请了 360 多项专利。
Jaguar is most proud, and rightly so, of its “impossible panel.” It’s a single, unbroken panel that runs more than 3 meters from the A-pillar to the rear of the Type 01. Pressing this huge piece with five different acute angles in it was deemed not possible by Jaguar’s modeling system. After roughly 22 weeks and 1,500 hours of development (supposedly requiring someone to come out of retirement), Jaguar realized this “impossible” panel.
捷豹最引以为傲的，也是理所应当的，是其“不可能的面板”。这是一块从 A 柱一直延伸到车尾、长度超过 3 米且完整无缝的面板。捷豹的建模系统曾认为，冲压这块带有五个不同锐角的巨大部件是不可能的。经过约 22 周和 1,500 小时的开发（据说还请出了一位退休专家），捷豹最终实现了这个“不可能”的面板。
Pricing of the Type 01 is possibly the most important thing Jaguar has to nail. Starting at around $170,000 (or £130,000—no confirmed pricing yet), this puts the Jag well below Ferrari Luces, electric Merc G-Wagens and Lamborghinis, and even the new Bentley Torcal, exactly where Glover wants to sit. Jaguar thinks it has a sweet spot in luxury EVs, a Goldilocks zone where buyers are eager to part with cash for electric cars that aren’t astronomical but priced high enough above the premium sector to be legitimately highfalutin.
Type 01 的定价可能是捷豹必须把握好的最关键因素。起售价约为 17 万美元（或 13 万英镑——尚未最终确认），这使得该车远低于法拉利 Luce、电动奔驰 G 级、兰博基尼以及新款宾利 Torcal 的价格，而这正是格洛弗想要的市场定位。捷豹认为自己在豪华电动车领域找到了一个“甜蜜点”，一个让买家愿意为之买单的“金发姑娘区间”：价格既不会高得离谱，又足以高于普通高端市场，从而显得足够尊贵。
No one has really succeeded with the luxury EV market. Porsche has tried. So has Lamborghini. Mercedes has had a very tough time. Now Bentley is having a crack at it. Glover thinks that the Type 01 has a shot. “One of us
目前还没有人真正在豪华电动车市场取得成功。保时捷尝试过，兰博基尼也尝试过，梅赛德斯-奔驰也经历过非常艰难的时期。现在宾利也准备试水。格洛弗认为，Type 01 有机会成功。“我们中的一员……