If you prefer something more eye-catching, brighter colors are available. Our test car’s dark silver paint also helped the XFR blend into the crowd. Subtle cues include hood vents, a revised front bumper with gaping lower grilles, and standard 20-inch alloy wheels. The fact that it’s a sedan helps in this regard, but Jaguar also restrained itself in terms of cosmetic modifications when crafting this R car. With so much power on tap, Jaguar wisely made the XFR something of a “sleeper” - a car with plenty of go-fast potential, but styling that doesn’t draw too much attention. It’s still a quick car, thanks to its 385-hp V-8 engine.
If 510 hp isn’t your thing, check out our review of the 2010 XF Premium. Indeed, it’s a special blend of comfort and power. Boasting a 510-horsepower, supercharged 5.0-liter V-8, the XFR demands prudent use of the gas pedal, lest you find yourself at speeds that will have you trading the XFR’s leather bucket seats for the vinyl backseat of a Crown Victoria.ĭespite its performance aspirations, the XFR’s surprisingly livable suspension tuning means it’s just as suited to commuting in traffic as it is blasting down an open highway. Hot R and R-S versions of the Jaguar coupe are a virtual lock, too, though how far down the product pipeline they are is unclear.Few cars strike me as too powerful, but the new Jaguar XFR sport sedan comes awfully close, at least when it comes to driving on public roads. In fact, the new top seems to flow quite perfectly into the car's rear haunches.Įxpect that the F-Type Coupe will share an engine lineup with the roadster, meaning both a naturally aspirated and a supercharged V6, as well as a V8 option. Still, the photos are good enough to see that the rakish silhouette of the hardtop is going to do justice to the convertible. The photographer had to hide in the cargo area of his clandestine SUV, just to catch these few, not-perfectly-clear images (that odd color your see is window tint). Word from our shooter is that security around the F coupe was and is really tight. As it turns out, those 'patent sketches' were just a warm up for the real deal F-Type Coupe, as this brand new set of spy images proves out. We're still recovering from the excitement of driving Jaguar's new sports car for the first time, and recently we had a predictive look at a coupe version. The automotive world has been hot on fire with the Jaguar F-Type of late. Jaguar F-Type Coupe spotted testing Thu, 20:29:00 EST So what did the designer, the nobleman and the celebrity choose? The SS100, XK120 (namely number NUB 120), the C-Type that competed at the 1953 Mille Miglia, the D-Type that won at Reims, the Mk II sedan, the E-Type that served as the Geneva show car, the one and only XJ13, company founder Sir William Lyons' personal XJ6 S1, the TWR XJS touring car and the 1988 Le Mans-winning XJR-9. So on the eve of the debut of the new XE, Jaguar brought together three experts to whittle down the long list of classic Leaping Cats to just ten.įor this gargantuan task, it brought in Ian Callum (who, as the company's chief designer, knows a thing or two about Jaguars), Lord Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (the Earl of March and founder of the Goodwood Revival) and Brian Johnson - who may be better known as the frontman of AC/DC, but also a classic car enthusiast, collector and racer in his own right. Ian Callum, Brian Johnson and Lord March pick 10 top Jaguars Thu, 18:58:00 ESTĪn automaker with as rich a heritage as Jaguar is bound to create a few experts along the way.
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