Jaguar Land Rover's Engine Production Center celebrated the production of its first Ingenium petrol engine.
As you know, Jaguar has recently reinforced its F-TYPE range with a four-cylinder turbo petrol engine for the entry-level version. According to the British brand, this Ingenium engine improves consumption and emissions. In the case of the F-TYPE, it also slightly reduced the total weight of the set. But most important of all, do it without detracting from the essence of a true F-TYPE.Jaguar's most powerful four-cylinder engine ever
The new 2.0 liter capacity Ingenium engine is truly a first for Jaguar. The 300 hp of power equals the highest specific power of any engine in the range – 150 hp per liter – while the torque is fixed at 400 Nm, 50 Nm less than the previous access model with 340 hp.
When coupled to the eight-speed Quickshift (automatic) gearbox, the F-TYPE achieves accelerations from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.7 seconds – exactly the same as the V6 version (manual gearbox) with over 40 horsepower – and only stops at 249 km/h of maximum speed.
Jaguar Land Rover's first Ingenium gasoline engine
Jaguar Land Rover's Engine Production Center (EMC) yesterday celebrated the production of the first Ingenium gasoline engines. These join the range, which also comprises 2.0 liter four-cylinder diesel engines with 150 hp, 163 hp and 240 hp. Like Diesels, gasoline Ingeniums also have different power levels: 200, 250 and 300. This last level is, for now, exclusive to F-TYPE.
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EMC's UK facility opened in 2013 and is the result of an investment of nearly €1.2 billion. Since then around 1400 people have been recruited (more than 80% live within a 25 km radius of the Wolverhampton site) and 125,000 hours of training have been required.
"The start of gasoline engine production marks a milestone for the centre, which aims to supply a range of high-performance, ultra-low emission gasoline and diesel engines to power current and future Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles."
Trevor Leeks, director of operations at EMC.
Since the start of production of the Ingenium diesel engine exactly two years ago, EMC has built more than 400,000 units. The production of this new gasoline Ingenium block marks the end of the first phase of the EMC.
