Black Country Cat becomes Twitter star
Jaguar has been deluging the Twittersphere with images of its new XE saloon as it pumps up expectations for the first car to be powered by Ingenium engines made in Wolverhampton.
Although Jaguar Land Rover is keeping details strictly under wraps, full scale production of the engines is due to get under way at the Engine Manufacturing Centre on the city's i54 site any time now.
They will be transported directly to the car's production line at Solihull, with the first cars due to appear in UK showrooms in May. The first deliveries to customers are due at the end of May or early June.
But the XE forms part of the biggest marketing push ever launched by JLR, alongside the new Land Rover Discovery Sport, which will also receive Ingenium diesel engines from Wolverhampton later this year.
If the newly announced Jaguar F-Pace crossover is also be powered by Ingeniums it would accelerate recruitment at the engine factory, which is expected to have a workforce of 1,600 eventually. The car, which will be built alongside the XE, will mean another 1,300 jobs at the Solihull plant.
