RE: Jaguar XF 5.0 V8: You Know You Want To

[The Leaper]

Here's a pic of mine.

R.

[Krikkit]

Much as I like the idea of a more subtle car with a supercharged V8, why would you buy one of these over an early XFR?

It's a bit more shouty, but hardly a shameless prostitute like an M5 or RS6, and it's £8k less.

[Toltec]

I was looking at adverts for these last night, the other car I saw was an E500 coupe sport, both of them looking like much better value than a 650i, which is where I started.

[ajmcampbell]

Proper Jaag... love sleepers like this!

[jamieduff1981]

unsprung said:

V88Dicky said:

The U.S. gets a supercharged, non-XFR version, or certainly used to.

You're right. Jaguar still offer that in the US.

Note also the AWD versions which, like many AWD offerings, are likely to be popular in the Northeast corridor (approximately Boston, New York and Philadelphia) where snow and heavy rains are not uncommon.

That sounds a bit scary. The R-S has slightly too much grunt for its chassis. The R feels a little wayward by comparison. A supercharged V8 on standard jelly suspension doesn't sound like a good recipe.

[lalli220]

Nice motor, for me it the XFR was the one for me. As mentioned previously, even the XFR is relatively understated and performance is out of this world. Yet on my long motorway journeys the fuel economy is relatively decent and not as bad as I thought.