Finally, the ultimate real-world performance test for every Jaguar comes at the famed Nordschleife layout of the Nürburgring in central Germany. From our highly-advanced facility, cars are sent out on the ‘Enthusiastic Driver Robustness Test’ – a gruelling 8,000 kilometre, 390-lap run around 73 challenging curves that rise and fall 300m through Germany’s Eifel forests.
It’s said that one 20.8 kilometre high-speed lap of the Nordschleife is the equivalent of 140 kilometres of testing on conventional roads, making this test the equivalent of 80,000 kilometres of driving in just a few weeks.
“The Nürburgring offers a real breadth of opportunities and a consistent benchmark, lap after lap,” says Phil Talboys, Manager of European Test Operations. “Our ultimate durability test is at the very top end of a car’s performance, and goes well beyond what most drivers will do, but that’s how we ensure robustness in the final product.”
“It really does benefit the average car driver – from a reliability and robustness point of view, as well as handling. If a car can survive the Nürburgring, it’s going to be capable and durable in the real-world.”
"IF A CAR CAN SURVIVE THE NÜRBURGRING, IT’S GOING TO BE CAPABLE AND DURABLE IN THE REAL-WORLD"
PHIL TALBOYS
Manager of European Test Operations
It all starts in the heart of England, at our Engineering Centre in Whitley and the Jaguar Land Rover proving grounds in Gaydon.
At Gaydon, our full suite of engineering and design offices and facilities covers 380 acres, and is home to 2,500 engineers. They have access to a wealth of advanced tools including Climate Chambers that can simulate conditions as diverse as a -40ºC Arctic winter, or the +55ºC heat of a Middle-Eastern desert. They also use static engine, transmission, gearbox and chassis test rigs to put prototype components or complete chassis through a 10-year, 240,000 kilometre life cycle of tests in just a few weeks – all without leaving the UK.
On Gaydon’s dedicated test tracks, vehicles can be driven 24 hours a day on the four-lane Emissions Circuit, while the Low-Speed Endurance Circuit, Developing World gravel tracks and Off-Road Course let us test our vehicles on many of the diverse road conditions they will face, so we can explore the limits of their performance and reliability.
We have also developed high-tech, real-world test facilities around the globe – dedicated locations, where prototypes can rack up thousands of kilometres of driving in some of the most hostile environments known to man, in order to ensure faultless reliability, wherever a Jaguar is driven.
Jaguar F‑PACE- Climate Chamber Testing, Gaydon
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