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Jaguar Land Rover debuts the 3.0-litre inline-six with an electric supercharger and a 48-volt mild-hybrid system. The engine will make a first appearance in the 2019 Range Rover Sport this spring and early this summer in the 2020 Range Rover. It is Jaguar Land Rover's most technically advanced engine and the first inline six-cylinder gasoline engine for the Range Rover.
The new 3.0-litre Ingenium six-cylinder overpowers the outgoing Ford-sourced V-6 engine, which was rated at 340 hp.
The inline-six, built at Jaguar Land Rover's Wolverhampton engine plant in England, is available in two versions, 355 hp in P360 models and 395 hp in the P400 trim.
The inline-six is expected to be used in Jaguar sports cars and sport sedans. From the 1940s through the mid-1990s, Jaguar's cars were powered by some of the industry's smoothest, most powerful inline-sixes. Land Rover has used mostly inline-four, inline-five and V-8 engines since its founding in 1948.
The new engine, which shares many of its internal parts with the 2.0-litre Ingenium four-cylinder engine, severs another link to Ford Motor Co., which sold Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors in 2008.
Mercedes-Benz, Mazda, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles all have new inline-sixes out now or coming soon.
Ford still supplies Jaguar Land Rover with V-6 and V-8 engines, but those, too, are scheduled to be replaced.
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