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some things are definitely just straight-up better than others you've been following TechnoBuffalo or me you know I love Evie's in fact I have an Evie driver for the past five years and about four months ago I put a deposit down for the brand-new Jaguar eye pace so when Jaguar sent me an email asking if they could sponsor a video where I could essentially take the car for a day and drive all along the northern California coast I could not reply fast enough so come along with me as I take a look at the brand-new 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds 2019 Jaguar Ivy's Jaguar is known for an iconic design and usually what that design is is a gigantic hood to put in those big engines that Jaguar usually has in their car boat you've got an electric vehicle you don't have an engine so it did a bit differently with the iPay since there isn't a big engine in the front they actually moved the cab forward it's it's appropriately called a cab forward design didn't give you a lot more interior space inside the car but they kept a lot of the iconic jag iconography that you get from Jaguars lineup still with the eye paste you can start by that big old grilles there a lot of v's don't have that grill because they're not always necessary this one's got a foreman function it keeps the car in line with Jaguars brand identity but it also sends air to the radiator to help cool it it's a lot of cool things done the design is actually a hood scoop right above that front grille that's gonna send air all the way up from the car over and then all the way back down and kind of interestingly you're not gonna see a wiper on the back of the car and you don't need one evidently now it's not rainy and I can't test it but because how this car handles wind the wind would send the rain or the water droplets right off the back so Jaguars done a really good job trying to use wind and at least get the drag coefficient down as little as possible to maintain the range a lot of tech inside and outside the car obviously 360 cameras you got Park Assist and hope you park in the car the eyepiece is the first time the in-control touch pro duo made its way to jaguar you might seen it in some of the Range Rover products but is here now essentially it's just screens it just screens on screens on screens you've got a 10-inch screen you've got a 5.5 inch screen the knobs to change the climate have screens there's a screen in the dash and it all worked together pretty well kind of a cool feature so the knobs I mentioned they've got screens like everything else but they do different stuff obviously you can turn them but you can push it and that'll give you the see controls to turn on either the cooling or the warming if you pull it up towards you that I'll control the fan speed they made them sort of multi-use which is neat bTW here overall is crazy premium it has soft touch materials it's wrapped in the leathers it just looks and feels really nice inside of it then that system definitely has a bit of a learning curve you know but over the past now I've been driving for about 60 miles we start to get the hang of it it is pretty highly customizable there's just cubby storage everywhere in this car you could put water bottles the main center console here is big enough everything expected is here from from memory seeds to safety to whatever you would want from a modern car you're going to get it soon pretty comfortable in the front we take a couple seats in the back and there's plenty of legroom for anywhere you want to go and you don't have that hump in the middle so you could really put three people in the back pretty comfortably obviously there are different trim levels available it's gonna start just under $70,000 at about 69 five and then you've got the first Edition which has every option checked off assuming you're not getting a first edition the more letters you have in the name the more expensive the car is gonna get so the eyepiece is all-wheel-drive you've got two electric motors sitting in between the front axle and the rear axle that's gonna get you to 60 in four and half seconds and is an incredible amount of torque it's 512 foot pounds and 394 horsepower it is insanely fast so you think about driving a normal car to get the torque to get which is the pulling power you didn't sort of wait for the gears to start to spool up with the electric vehicle all that torque is there pretty much instantaneously it's right it's analogy of using an electric drill as the new you pull that trigger the drill bit is spinning as fast as it's going to ever go sitting at the car as soon as you punch the accelerator pedal all that torque is there so you really can go fast very quickly especially from a stop and when I say fast I don't mean like casually meandering the 60 I mean throw you back in your seat gels pinned back type speed this is zero to 60 and four and a half seconds so the 90 kilowatt hour pack is gonna give you about a two hundred and forty mile range so I think when people think about driving electric cars and when I started the first thought that came into my head was a range anxiety you don't have certainly have that precedes convenience of going to a gas station and just filling up but you've got a car that gives you 240 miles of range we've been driving 50 miles through hills and canyons and it seems to be a really accurate sense of how much range you're going to get V's by nature are quiet it's one of their hallmark features Jaguar did a really nice job with noise dampening if you want that quiet evie ride you totally get it you barely hear any wind noise it kind of comes through the scoops up front and goes over the windshield but Jaguar has done something called active sound design where you're going to get a sound that you would get if you're an internal-combustion car when you step on the accelerator or the gas you're gonna get that noise and it sounds awesome it sounds like the future and it sounds like this the 90 kilowatt hour battery packs it's like a skateboard across the bottom of the car well that's gonna give you as a 50/50 weight distribution which means we are going around these turns the car it's going to hold the road incredibly well you're not gonna feel any sort of body roll that you might get in a car with a big weighted engine in front there's only so much we can test and check out in just a three and a half hour ride with the ipace but I did come away super impressed I'm hoping to get some more time behind the wheel do a proper review of the IPA so something you want to see us cover that we did in this video leave in the comments down below but overall the car was really impressive this didn't strike me as a rookie effort from Jaguar at electric vehicle the car was fast a car was nimble the car handled well and most importantly the car kind of had a soul but something you can't really say with most electric vehicles overall in just my short time with a Jaguar I pace I came away incredibly impressed you