Electrified Night Luxury | 2020 Jaguar I-PACE

All right, everyone, thank you so much for tuning in for another night review. Today we have the 2020 Jaguar I-Pace, and this is definitely a really sleek car, all electric. I'm going to show you all the exterior lighting, interior lighting, and then we're going to go for a test drive and see just how well they do. So starting right up front, we've got some really cool signature lighting. So I'll show you the LED lights in a second, but take a look at that J-type shape right there. That is pretty neat. And even if you look at this from the side, it's really got a nice presence to it. And you've got a nice bright marker light over there as well. Looks pretty sweet. You've got LED high and low beams, of course, they're just not adaptive, which is a little bit interesting. And the Jaguar emblem on the front can actually illuminate. It's an option and we do not have that. And then the interesting thing about the blinker is that it takes up that entire daytime running light or that entire signature lighting right there. So pretty cool, definitely really flashy. It's actually pretty darn bright as well. And this blue is also really interesting. It's really nice. It's a real pretty blue, looks good in all different lightings as well. And I've definitely become a fan of it. Now I've also turned on the fog lights. So you've got LED fogs, all LED high and low beams here, as you would expect with a luxury vehicle. And then those high beams are tucked on the inside corner of that headlight housing. On the side, you can see that mirror has some nice LED lighting as well. This blue is just super sleek. I'm really a big fan of it, especially on this Jaguar. Now as we come around to the back, we've got LED taillights and they've got a slim design, but it's actually a really large piece that is LED in there, a really large taillight overall. You see that line running up underneath of that too. So that kind of mirrors the slim angles and slim lines of the front. We've got LED license plate lights as well. So looks pretty cool on the outside here. Now with a quick look at the cargo area, you'll see you've got your license plate lights there and the button to lower the tailgate down is illuminated. You can hands-free open and close this tailgate. I'll show you in the full review. You've got a nice bright LED light on each side right there. Not the most illuminated, but definitely not bad at all. And I'll show you more in this cargo area and how much space you got in the full review. Now taking a look at the back door, you see that ambient lighting right there. You get some ambient lighting in the back seat, which is also pretty cool. It's a nice seat green color. And then there's a little light on the door that's actually a clear exit monitor to let you know if someone's coming up behind you so you don't get out. And the rest of the back seat is illuminated pretty well. There's LED lighting right up above. It's a really cool area because you've got a whole panoramic glass roof up there as well. Ambient lighting on that other side, really nicely lit up. In the back seat, you get a couple illuminated buttons here for the heated seats. There are a couple of charging ports down there, but those don't have any backlit illumination. Now with the back seat lights, it's kind of cool because you have one light that will be on when the door is open. And then you can individually turn on each side. And when it's totally dark, you've even got a little bit of illumination from that little spot right there, which is nice. Now one cool aspect as you approach the vehicle, or if you go ahead and unlock it, or even just open the door, first of all, you'll get that Jaguar logo on the ground right there, which is really cool when it's dark. That really lights up. You've got lighting that comes down from the mirror from there. And then these door handles are even illuminated as well. So really nice touch from Jaguar. And when we open things up, I'll turn on all the ambient lights and stuff in here, but it's a really nice interior. Can't wait to show it to you. Now the inside of the Jaguar is definitely a nice place to be. There are a couple of screens. All the buttons are well-illuminated. It's just a nice place to hang out. Now over on my driver's side door, you've got this ambient lighting that comes through here and down into the door pockets. Even a little bit of ambient lighting right there on the door handle. Buttons and switches here are well-illuminated. Your memory settings and your lock functions are illuminated as well. There you can open up your frunk, your trunk, parking brake, and adjust your interior lighting. Steering wheel is interesting. It is a fancy, comfortable-looking steering wheel, but the lighting on here, actually, that's all it is. There's not actually like font or print on here, which is kind of cool. So when the vehicle is off, there's not anything really on the steering wheel, but it's all laid out fairly well, and it's a little bit complicated to use if you're not used to it. The steering wheel allows you to control this area up here, and I'll go through more of this in the actual full review, but you can customize what this looks like. You can have two dials. You can have one dial change up what's on the left and the right side of the actual gauge in the middle. Now moving over to the middle, you get the Touch Pro Duo. So you've got the upper screen and the lower screen, and this upper screen is pretty unique. There's a lot that you can see and a lot that you can do on here. So at the bottom, you can see all of this, all these shortcuts right here. There's a lot of different things that you can customize. You can get a configurable ambient light setting, but we don't have that. That's optional. Otherwise, we just have this one color ambient lighting, but this is kind of a cool little thing. You can customize your home screen. You can turn all of the screens off as well if you want to, but overall, it's just an easy-to-use type of thing. It does take a little bit of getting used to, and I'll show you more in the full review. And then down here, this is mainly for your climate controls. You can see your audio on there though, but it's kind of cool with these dials. So you push this actually to adjust your heating and cooling of your seats, which is kind of unique, but it's just a really interesting, unique thing. The shifter is on the left. It takes a little bit of getting used to, but push button is kind of becoming mainstream now. And then you've got drive modes over here as well, and you can even use the air suspension to lower the vehicle. So that is pretty cool. You'll notice below this center console, there's lighting down there. So there's a gap there. There's a gap right there. And I'm pretty sure when I first got this vehicle, there was some lighting up under here, but for whatever reason, there's none right now. It's a little bit surprising. There's no ambient lighting in the cupholders, but that really doesn't bother me. There's not a real good light in here, but you do have illuminated charging ports in here. And then right up above, you've got this one light here, and then you have this one that is a nice area. It kind of shines down on your center console to give you a little bit of light there, and then all touch sensitive across there. All right, so now let's take a look at the headlights. And to be honest, they are disappointing for this price and this type of luxury. Straight out ahead, you've got a pretty decent beam, but on that driver's side, there's definitely a significant dip over there. Beam pattern is not the best. It's a little bit low on that side. I haven't had anybody flash me, and when you turn on the high beams, they just seem to be narrow, which is a little bit disappointing. It's too narrow for my preference. Turn the fog lights on, definitely get some better peripheral brightness and immediate brightness right here. All right, y'all, we are on the test drive in this Jaguar I-PACE. Let's have some fun. We'll test out the headlights and some real dark areas, the automatic high beams, and just kind of talk a little bit about how this drives. But if you want to see a more detailed review on how it drives, I have a longer video in the daytime, of course, so be sure to check that out. Now, just like I told you a second ago, I wasn't real impressed with the headlights right off the bat, and I have been driving this car for several, a few days now, but I haven't done much at night yet, so we'll check that out in a second. But first, let's go ahead and get on a kind of a better, well-lit road, and let's go ahead and get on it. One thing about electric power is, oh, it is zoom, zoom, instant torque. You don't get a whole lot of noise out of this, that's one thing, but it's just a very quiet ride, and that's to be expected with an electric vehicle. There's no vibration from an engine, powertrain, which is very smooth. One thing I've come to like is the ambience with the screen in front, these couple screens over here, and I actually have the brightness turned down a fair amount. We have an automatic dimming mirror on both sides for the side mirrors, and an automatic dimming mirror up above for our main mirror, which is always welcome for me, I love that. It makes it just a nice, nice to drive around at night. Ambient lighting in here is great, just a, you know, it's a really welcoming, nice interior. All right, y'all, so I'm going to put it in dynamic mode, there we go, it changes our gauge right up front, makes it red, and it is, goodness, it is fast. You can kind of hear that noise, but, so the automatic high beams just turned on, and they've got pretty good distance. You know, I complain that they are a little narrow, they do seem to be a little bit narrow right off the bat, but really, I actually do see pretty well off into the ditches, and let's go ahead and turn those off. So that's where it really kills me, it's really low on the driver's side, that's my biggest complaint. Turn the fog lights off, cuts away a little bit of our peripheral vision, and let's turn those high beams back on, and I've got a pretty good shoot right out in front. You know, I kind of am comparing this to that Lincoln Navigator, the last luxury vehicle I was in, or one of the most recent luxury vehicles, and that was very impressive. This just does not seem quite as impressive. There's no adaptive function, which is a little bit of a surprise at this $85,000 price point. Let's turn those high beams off again. So yeah, the low beams are definitely disappointing. Turn those fog lights on. Fog lights don't make a huge difference, the regular headlights actually give you some pretty good width out to the side. So that's pretty good, it's just the distance on that driver's side, it's a real bummer. Now I had the high beams turned off, the high beams are back on, so the automatic function, and hopefully we can run into a few people here. One thing about this car is it's got regenerative brakes, and it will tell you on the screen, and right now there's actually a car in front of me, and it just turned them off. I hope you can see right now these low beams, they're just not that good, for what I would expect. I think many of you are going to get in here and you're going to be happy, you're going to be like, oh these LEDs are great, you know, they're just fine, but I have, oh, and we just flashed cross traffic there, I feel pretty bad about that. High beams are still on with another car right there, so these are definitely a little bit more finicky, and one thing as I was saying with the regenerative brakes, it's a very touchy brake, it's really interesting. The acceleration is just phenomenal on this thing, of course you just get instant torque, you don't have to hardly get on it at all, and it just goes. It's a real quiet interior, except you hear some road noise. There's almost no wind noise, which is great. It's a very aerodynamic car, and the high beams are on, they just turned off, really for no reason, they're still off, probably because of the street lights. Some of the vehicles don't turn the high beams on because of the street lights, some do. It's interesting, so these Jaguar automatic high beams are a little disappointing, the overall headlights are a little, I'd just like to see that driver's side, maybe a tad higher. Now like I said, if you want to see more detail on this, all the different specs and features and whatnot, be sure to check out my full review down below. Thank y'all so much for watching, I appreciate you tuning in, be sure to subscribe for more night videos, and check out some of these other videos below, and have a great rest of your day. Thank you so much.