Jaguar, The Entire Brand, Is Taking A Few Months Off

A few months ago, you could’ve walked into a Jag showroom and picked from a wide range of models including a raucous sports car. Well, that changed rather quickly. Soon, it’ll be one, and then for a few months, none at all. Yep, Jaguar won’t have any cars to sell for at least part of 2026. I’m sorry, what?

We already knew that radical change is underfoot at Jaguar. With a move upmarket and a new, concentrated, all-electric three-vehicle lineup in the works, everything save for the F-Pace SUV has been discontinued for 2025 as the first of the new models is readied.

However, in an interview with Autocar, Jaguar managing director Rawdon Glover revealed that for a period of at least a few months, the iconic British marque won’t be selling any new cars at all, due to initial deliveries of the first model in the new trio likely not happening until 2026.

Just the F-Pace will remain in production through 2025, and Glover told Autocar that “we will no longer be on sale for new vehicles” in certain European markets by the end of this year, with the UK to follow “from the early part of next year”.

He also confirmed that UK deliveries of the new electric GT won’t begin before 2026, so there will be a period of around a year with no new Jaguars on sale in the UK. In the meantime, said Glover, retailers will intensify their focus on used cars and aftersales services, “but yes, there will be a period where you will not be able to buy a Jaguar”.

When was the last time a reasonably popular car company as a whole took about a year off in its domestic market? It’s one thing for a boutique brand to go a few years before readying a new model, but a brand like Jaguar? It seems almost unfathomable. See, normally, when an automaker switches to a substantially revised model lineup, it overproduces to cover downtime from production line changeovers, so the whole hand-off goes as smoothly as possible. Not so here.

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Granted, standalone Jag showrooms are few and far between, as the brand often shares retail space with its sister company. As it sits, it’s Land Rover that’s doing the heavy lifting from a sales perspective, so losing Jaguar sales for a few months likely won’t be the worst possible thing for dealers. Still, the strong likelihood of a few months without Jaguars feels odd. Fingers crossed this new electric lineup works out for the firm.

(Photo credits: Jaguar)

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