India, July 30 -- Has there ever been a reset like this in 140-odd years of the automobile? Brands have pivoted and reinvented, but no carmaker with nine decades of history has ever stopped everything, walked away from the petrol engines it spent 90 years honing into an art form, and started again with a blank sheet of paper.

That's what Jaguar has done. The XE, XF, F-Pace, F-Type - all gone. No petrol, no diesel, not even a hybrid safety net. Just one new car (to start with), pure electric. That car is the Type 01, and the name says it all: 0, for zero emissions; 1, for the first model of Jaguar' rebirth; and Type, to echo the earlier C-, D- and E-Types. First deliveries begin in 2027, and I've just driven a camouflaged prototype at Jag...