Jaguar-Land Rover announces Its new Ingenium engine family

It’s been six years since Jaguar and Land Rover left the Ford ownership umbrella, but the British automakers are still using Ford-derived engines they inherited back in the late 1990s. That’s about to change though, as the Brits are set to introduce a new family of efficient powerplants. Dubbed Ingenium, these new engines promise to deliver a compelling combination of power, efficiency, and low CO2 emissions in many shapes and sizes.

Built in-house at the company’s new engine facility in Wolverhampton, England, the first version of the modular unit family is set to debut in the upcoming Jaguar XE and find its way into the Land Rover Discovery a few months after that. The Ingenium family will include both gasoline and diesel variants with turbochargers attached to them. As with all modular engines, JLR’s new powerplants will share many internals and calibration strategies, enabling the company to raise quality and simplify manufacturing.

Jaguar Land Rover’s new engine family is based around a modular 500 cm3 per cylinder game plan. Specifically, all blocks will share the same bore, stroke, cylinder spacing and 500 cm3 cylinder capacity, a strategy similar to those used by BMW and Mercedes-Benz . Although most details are still under wraps, JLR promises these engines will emit less than 100 g of CO2 per km in the 2016 Jaguar XE and weigh less than their Ford-based predecessors.


The first unit to roll out under the Ingenium banner will be a 2.0 L turbo diesel, Jaguar revealed, which will find its way into the upcoming 2016 XE sedan. The oil burner will be around 79 kg (176 pounds) lighter than the company’s current four banger and will reduce friction by 17 percent compared to the 2.2 L diesel currently available. Naturally, it will hit engine bays with two different power outputs. A single turbocharged version will sit at the bottom of the XE lineup, while a twin turbo variant will deliver more horsepower to those in need of a sportier diesel. Output figures are still a mystery, but expect the diesel XE to rival the BMW 328d ’s 180 HP and 380 NM (280 lb-ft) of torque in its base configuration.

Although JLR has yet to elaborate as to what engines will join the 2.0 L turbo diesel in the Ingenium lineup, we figure the family will extend downward and upward with a 1.5 L, 3 cylinder and a 3.0 L, inline 6 or V6 mill. The former could represent the basis of a future hybrid powertrain spread across the Jaguar and Land Rover lineup.