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The Jaguar C-XF (for Concept-XF) was a concept car that was designed to showcase the preliminary styling cues of the Jaguar XF. The C-XF was unveiled in the 2007 North American International Auto Show with the production XF announced in the autumn of 2007 at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
The concept borrows from the Mercedes-Benz CLS in that it is a so-called four-door coupe, and it comes with a low roof, raked windshield, high beltline, small greenhouse, and seats for four. Jaguar says the name was chosen to build on name recognition from the XJ and XK models.
The concept features a radically raked coupe roof line that was toned down in the production XF, mainly to give rear-seat passengers some headroom. The cool scorched wood interior trim—done with a blowtorch, which Jaguar design chief Ian Callum said is "very liberating"—wasn't carried over into production, either. Mechanically, the concept gets a 4.2-litre supercharged V8 engine mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission with Jaguar Sequential Shift, that engine produces an output of up to 420 horsepower.
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