To be called the F-Type, the 2-seater will also be the big cat brand's smallest car in more than 40 years.
No less than Enzo Ferrari described the E-Type, launched in 1961, as 'the most beautiful car ever built'.
The F-Type will be the production version of the C-X16 Concept, though it won't have the hybrid powertrain which that car had.
It will be launched first as a convertible, and one of its target models will be Porsche's third generation Boxter Roadster and the Carrera Cabriolet.
Jaguar was bought in 2008 for $2.8bn from Ford by Tata Motors of India.
