JAGUAR'S crucial next new model has been given the green light - by the car company's global sales network. For distributors around the world are now fully primed for X200, the mid-size executive car due to be launched in 18 months time, claims Spanish market sales chief Jose Soriano Rouco.

'The whole network has completed its plans and pledged its support for this important new vehicle. We have all seen how it will look and know what it will offer - it will be a success right from day one,' declared Rouco, managing director of Madrid-based Jaguar Hispania SA.