Jaguar’s new all-electric grand tourer was one of the most controversial debuts of 2024, and the company had plans to make it for 2025 before it was delayed. It’s still in the works, possibly for this year, with some specifications finally starting to emerge.

The car, initially called the Type 00, was to be Jaguar‘s play at going ultra-luxury and competing with the likes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce, after years (some might even say decades) in which the marque struggled to have much identity.

The Type 00 gave Jaguar loads of new identity—being large, distinctive-looking, and very pink—but that identity wasn’t a universal hit with the purists, which is probably why Jaguar persisted anyway. The new car will, apparently, be about as heavy as it looks, or nearly 6,000 pounds, according to Evo, which tested the grand tourer in Sweden and called the weight “disappointing.” The range will be around 435 miles on the WLTP cycle, so a bit less when judged by EPA standards.

Neither of those numbers is terribly surprising, but the horsepower might be: around 1,000 brake horsepower, or enough to be the headline. Big power, big weight, and complicated software to control it all, which sounds like a work in progress.

“Clearly, this isn’t a car with physics-defying responsiveness and absolute body control—it seems to embrace the fact that it’s a large, comfort-oriented GT,” Evo says. “But it’s also one with 1000bhp to manage, and the scale of that challenge comes to light on the handling circuit. There’s a monstrous level of forward thrust . . . . A very sensitive right foot is required to carve tidy lines on the ice.”

Further refinements are in the works, too. The end-use for the Type 00 is not carving lines on ice but ferrying high-net-worth individuals on pavement, but Jaguar does the ice tests in an effort to prove performance and make the car more desirable for a customer who might also be considering a Porsche Taycan, for example. In that respect, it sounds like Jaguar still has some more work to do, though; regardless, the Type 00’s polarizing nature doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon.