Ingenium Engine Family Grows With Gasoline Unit, Teases Transcend Transmission

Jaguar Land Rover has yet to announce the finer specs or the fuel economy, yet the teaser for the all-new Ingenium gasoline engine got us pumped up. Dubbed the most advanced gasoline engines ever developed by the British automaker, the new kid on the block boasts goodies such as an integrated exhaust manifold, twin scroll turbo with ceramic ball bearing technology, electrohydraulic valvetrain, the whole nine yards.

According to JLR, the high-octane offering in the Ingenium family “will deliver exceptional performance, efficiency, and refinement.” The all-new engine also promises to meet “the most stringent global emissions regulations,” which is pretty nice and all. However, you can’t have one just yet. Although production has started at the Engine Manufacturing Centre, the first cars to be equipped with it will go on sale in 2017.

Looking to the future, Jaguar Land Rover also works on the Transcend Project. With a budget of £30 million, Transcend is the codename for an all-new transmission. Described as being “a revolutionary advanced automatic transmission that will both improve the efficiency of future vehicles and expand their all-wheel drive capability,” the tranny makes use of eight speeds instead of nowadays' nine- and ten-ratio units.

But compared to the ZF-developed 8HP eight-speeder, the Transcend automatic transmission makes use of an ultra-wide ratio spread of 20:1. That’s an amazing figure and it gets even more amazing when you remember that the GM-Ford 10-speed auto has an overall spread of 7.39.

Transcend also happens to be around 20 kilograms lighter than the ZF 8HP, which is jolly good news. As per Jaguar Land Rover group engineering director Nick Rogers, the Transcend transmission “will make maneuvering and off-road use easier than ever before for drivers whilst also improving on-road vehicle dynamics and CO2 emissions.”