New Jaguar XF Unveiled... On a Wire Over River Thames
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Jaguar has quite a knack for... Unique reveals.
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"Okay, everyone remember where we parked!"
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I'm guessing that the XF-S now refers to the supercharged V6 petrol now. The last gen S was the twin turbo V6 diesel.
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More information.
For starters it's 128 kg lighter, yet much stiffer than the old car, thanks to the new aluminum body. The lighter weight is distributed almost 50:50, which should help the handling. It's also bit longer and the wheels are further away to the corners of the car, so there's more legroom and interior space in general. There's some interesting technology inside the new car, including, new touchscreen system, colour head up display, traffic sign recognition, new sound system by Meridian and new digital dials. At first, there are three engines for UK and one for US, the UK engines are 2.0 diesel, which also comes with 6-speed manual, 3.0 diesel and 3.0 supercharged from the F-Type, US only gets the supercharged version in two trims, 340 hp and faster 376 hp, from which only the latter is available in UK.
For starters it's 128 kg lighter, yet much stiffer than the old car, thanks to the new aluminum body. The lighter weight is distributed almost 50:50, which should help the handling. It's also bit longer and the wheels are further away to the corners of the car, so there's more legroom and interior space in general. There's some interesting technology inside the new car, including, new touchscreen system, colour head up display, traffic sign recognition, new sound system by Meridian and new digital dials. At first, there are three engines for UK and one for US, the UK engines are 2.0 diesel, which also comes with 6-speed manual, 3.0 diesel and 3.0 supercharged from the F-Type, US only gets the supercharged version in two trims, 340 hp and faster 376 hp, from which only the latter is available in UK.
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The rear bugs me a bit.
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I can't be alone in finding it interesting that the original XF was the car that sparked Jag's current design scheme, the shake-off-the-pipes-and-slippers move being applauded back then for giving them a completely new, contemporary look. Now, we arrive at the second-gen, and while it borrows some clever aluminium construction from, er, the entire rest of the Jag range, it's so willfully unchanging that it's hard to tell it apart from the old car, boring new taillights excepted. That backend almost looks like an Audi, really - the poster-company for dull, samey-looking model lines.
Impressive that it'll be the lightest, fastest car in its class over here, though, at least for the cooking models.
Impressive that it'll be the lightest, fastest car in its class over here, though, at least for the cooking models.
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I don't know why everyone is insisting on joining the rear tail lights these days, it's like a fad which has re-emerged.
It looks a tad dull inside and out, more specifically the base model, but it's a improvement over the previous model.
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After having played with the configurator, I'm officially not interested in this car. The interior looks cheap. The design is so dull and dreary and the exterior looks so deriviative that I would guess that it costs 20-25 grand, not the 35-55 it actually goes for. It reminds me of the Subaru Legacy: attractive, capable, and wholly unobjectionable. But very, very definitely not a 5 series/A6/E class competitor.
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The biggest problem I have with it is that it looks more like a facelift rather than a new car. In the same way as modern Audis or Mercedes Benz W210 and W211, they went from something new to something that makes me think of enlarged XE, which looked a lot like the old XF, and that makes it, well dull. On the other hand, I can't find anything wrong with the rest of the car, it looks, while bit dull fairly okay, unlike the equivalent Lexus, and it's still more interesting than the rather dated E Class or the just plain dull choice of A6.
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Well for starters, you can forget about the one on the right..
Was XF sportbrake success?
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Wagons are awesome, but nobody wants them.
I guess that Estates will come out but with unique designs. With different names.
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I hope that one day we see F Type baja bug. It would work somehow. I still think that Jaguar needs more 2 door cars, because F Type isn't XK successor, it's E Type. S Class coupe opponent and luxury GT like Vanquish. Also 4 door F Type would work. I just want Jaguar to take chances like F Type or CX75. There is no more beatiful car today like F Type. This is not my only oppinion.
I hope there won't be only SUVs as crossovers, we obviously want shooting brakes and elegant coupe sedans. Also stuff like Project 7 is recommended. Also no coupe SUVs please. And estates are recommended
Land Rover should make a true off road vehicle like Defender
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