Jaguar C-X16 sports car 2011 at Frankfurt motor show

When could be a concept automobile not a thought car? When it’s a ‘production concept’, to use Jaguar’s oft-repeated description at the revealing of the new Jaguar C-X16 coupe at the Frankfurt motor show nowadays.

Officially the two-seat, supercharged V6 coupe hasn’t got the inexperienced light-weight. Unofficially this is often the R version of a production automobile that is nearly sure to be in showrooms in 2013.
Interviewing the bosses behind the Jaguar C-X16 concept automobile

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Jaguar XE 2013

Jaguar is working up a new coupé and roadster pair tentatively badged XE – to tackle the Porsche Cayman/Boxster duopoly in the premium sports car market. The new Jag XE is revealed in full in the latest September 2009 issue of CAR Magazine, but we've held one artist's impression back to show online.

The two-seater is part of an ambitious strategy to turn Jaguar into the British Porsche (minus the VW family political spats that seem increasingly to distract from Stuttgart's mostly sensational road cars). The XE is part of an outline product plan that stretches to 2015, and CAR magazine lays bare the key cars in the new issue. If successful, Jaguar could soon be making more than 100,000 cars a year as a profitable independent under Tata Motors' wing.

Jaguar XE: here in 2013, you say?

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Jaguar C-X16 concept 2011

This is Jaguar’s new sub-XK sports car. As we revealed back in 2009, Jaguar is working on an all-new small sports car, nicknamed the XE, to compete with Porsche’s best – and this is it.
This official design sketch teases the concept car (dubbed C-X16, the hybrid supercar concept is C-X75) that will appear at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show in September.
What do we know about the Jaguar C-X16 concept?
Jaguar is keeping mum on most of the details – it’ll announce more at the Frankfurt show – but we scooped a lot of the information two years ago.
Underneath the almost-certainly-gorgeous body will be a lightweight aluminium platform with a front/mid-engined layout, and V6 petrol engines (in 275bhp naturally aspirated or 350bhp supercharged forms) sending power to the rear wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox.
The drop-top comes first in 2013, while coupe and R versions arrive by 2015. And that means the next XK is pushed more upmarket.

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