Had a good look at an I Pace this afternoon, an acquaintance stopped by for a chat in the lane when he spotted me installing a new charge point at the side of our drive. Haven't seen him for ages (because of this plague) but it turns out he bought the I Pace almost exactly a year ago. Couldn't go for a drive in it, but have to say I was more impressed by it than I thought I would be. It's also a bit smaller than I thought, obviously taller than the Model 3, but it's about the same length and width, and nowhere near as massive-looking as the Model X.
Chatting to him, it seems that it's performance and energy use isn't that far off that of the Model 3 LR either. I'd always thought that the I Pace was very inefficient, but I get the feeling that the real world difference between the Model 3 and the I Pace may not be as great as some reviews seem to make out. Could be that he, like me, tends to drive on mainly rural A and B roads, as I suspect motorway cruising will probably take it's toll to a greater extent on the I Pace.
It's not a car that I'd thought about as a possible replacement for the Model 3, but is certainly one that I'll look more seriously at, even though it's priced a bit higher than I'd like. The one niggle at the back of my mind is that the one and only Jaguar I've ever owned (a three year old XJ-S I bought in 1992) was, without a shadow of doubt, the worst car I've ever owned. Something went wrong every few days, from trim panels that just dropped off (because they'd never been properly fastened in place) to more electrical gremlins than I could shake a stick at (always dirty/corroded connectors). Hopefully Jaguar have improved in the intervening 30 years or so . . .