Top Honours for Jaguar Land Rover at 2013 Scottish Car of the Year Awards
- Jaguar F-TYPE receives Sporting category honours
- Range Rover receives Scottish Luxury Car of the Year award
- Range Rover Sport named SUV of the Year
Jaguar Land Rover achieved a remarkable triple success at the
2013 Scottish Car of the Year Awards, with honours going to the new
Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Jaguar F-TYPE sports car.
The
Jaguar F-TYPE
beat stiff competition to win the Sporting category award, impressing
the judges - some of Scotland's most important motoring journalists -
with its elegant design, formidable performance and impressive customer
appeal.
Alisdair Suttie, President of the Association
of Scottish Motoring Writers, said: "We have waited a very long time for
the Jaguar F-TYPE, more than four decades in fact, but this year's
Sporting winner does it with panache. It also does it with elegance,
superb performance and complete desirability."
Ian
Callum, Jaguar Director of Design, accepted the award at a ceremony in
Glasgow and commented: "This award is a wonderful recognition of the
efforts invested in creating the new F-TYPE. It is a sports car that
reaffirms the brand's sporting heritage in both its performance and
design."
Range Rover received the Best Luxury Car
Award, an acknowledgement of how Land Rover has continued to develop the
quality, comfort and refinement of the fourth generation vehicle.
Alisdair
Suttie said: "Luxury comes in many forms, but the Range Rover brings
together such a broad range of talents, it stands head and shoulders
above the competition. It also brings innovative design, supreme comfort
and world-beating style."
The accolade adds to a
growing list of industry awards for the new Range Rover, including
luxury car of the year titles from What Car? and Top Gear Magazine.
The all-new
Range Rover Sport
was also named Scottish SUV of the Year. Sharing the same lightweight
construction principles with its larger sibling, and built on the same
highly efficient production line at Land Rover's Solihull plant, the new
Range Rover Sport has made significant advances in handling,
performance and customer appeal.
"A good SUV has to be
many things: good looking, roomy, comfortable and ideally great both on
road and off," said Alisdair Suttie. "Thanks to an all-aluminium
lightweight body that has helped it lose 400kg, the latest Range Rover
Sport is all those things, as well as being much faster and surprisingly
economical.
"Factor in the availability of a seven-seat option and we think this is the best SUV available on the roads of Scotland today."
The
Range Rover and Range Rover Sport awards were accepted by Fiona
Pargeter, Head of Global PR Communications, Jaguar Land Rover, who
commented: "Scotland is a key market for Land Rover, so we are extremely
proud to receive these awards, and value the recognition they make of
Land Rover raising the bar for quality and performance in the premium
SUV market."
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