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Jaguar X-Type Named Most Significant Car at the Geneva Auto Show


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    GENEVA, Feb. 28 AutoWeek celebrated the best of the best
at the Geneva International Auto Show today by revealing Editors Choice Awards
for 2001.  Jonathan Browning, Managing Director of Jaguar, accepted the X-TYPE
award for the Most Significant car of the Geneva show.

    For more than a decade, the AutoWeek Editors Choice Awards have recognized
those vehicles the magazine's editorial staff selects as the Best in Show,
Most Fun, Most Significant and Best Concept models at each major auto show
around the world.  This category measures a vehicle's significance to the
manufacturer, to the marketplace and as a segment-buster.

    "The Jaguar X-TYPE is clearly the most significant vehicle of the Geneva
show. Not only because of what it means for Jaguar's future as a complete car
company, but for what it means to the segment in which it competes. The
styling is expressively Jaguar - you know it is a Jag the moment you see it.
That Jag will bring this car to the U.S. for less than $30,000 and sends a
strong statement to the people from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. It is a clear
winner," says Dutch Mandel, editor and associate publisher of AutoWeek.

    The all-wheel drive X-TYPE sports sedan will be introduced in North
America this summer as a 2002 model.  The X-TYPE will be priced from
$29,950 in the United States.