Jaguar · 2001–2009
Jaguar X-Type
The Jaguar X-Type is a compact executive car that was manufactured and marketed by Jaguar Cars from 2001 to 2009 for a single generation. Internally designated "X400", the X-Type was produced in four-door saloon car and five-door estate car body styles, becoming Jaguar's first estate car to enter series production. The X-Type has a front-mounted engine and either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, and was Jaguar's first front-wheel drive car. It was also the first Jaguar with a diesel engine or a four-cylinder engine. The X-Type is considered a large family car by EuroNCAP and a compact car by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The X-Type was developed during the period when Jaguar was owned by Ford as a division of its Premier Automotive Group (PAG) (1999–2010) — and marked Jaguar's entry into the critical compact executive segment. The programme aimed to double the marque's worldwide sales — requiring expansion of engineering resources, factory capacity, marketing capability, sales support and service. At launch, Autocar called the X-Type "the most important Jaguar ever". With annual projections of 100,000 sales, the X-Type recorded a production of 350,000 over its eight-year manufacturing run.
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UK vehicles on the road
15,878 licensed and 12,556 SORN (28,434 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 102,279 |
| 2015 | 97,841 |
| 2016 | 92,787 |
| 2017 | 84,849 |
| 2018 | 75,350 |
| 2019 | 66,025 |
| 2020 | 58,494 |
| 2021 | 50,426 |
| 2022 | 43,935 |
| 2023 | 38,478 |
| 2024 | 32,817 |
| 2025 | 28,434 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q475753CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_X-TypeCC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1377254110 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.