RE: Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake: Review
Discussion
Jedilai said:
jamieduff1981 said:
I disagree. Ok it's the saloon rather than the estate but I've bought one. With the big carbon fibre spoiler. In French Racing Blue.
I have never aspired to an Audi, and you'll see that I've got a history of Jaguars including a green one with cream interior and maple dashboard.
My wife loves our Jags but is still in her late 20s and I'm 33. We wanted something with the performance of our Cerbera and exciting to drive but refined, every-day useable for my wife who is an enthusiastic driver but a full-time mother so the car had to be capable of carrying our children about plus a big boot for going on trips. There was an XKR which was nice and an XKR-S which was more expensive. We started out looking to spend £23k on a BMW that day, then a £33k XKR, dismissed the £55k XKR-S when the kids clearly wouldn't fit in the XKR then resigned to needing an XF of some sort. XJs are ok but too big to park in the sorts of carparks we need to go to and I don't like the back end much. It's also a bit mature still which I personally wanted to get away from and an XJR is close to £100k which I felt would be too big a financial sacrifice to our lifestyle if I used the BMW money as deposit and got the rest on finance.
She test drove a V6 diesel XF and liked the similarity to our S-Type in terms of its chassis and controls feel and layout, but didn't like the engine. We thought about an XFR last year, thinking sensible colours etc but it's just not that special when you can now buy a 2.2 diesel aRSeport which looks the same, and whilst nice and engaging the S-Type chassis is beyond its best with 500bhp.
We saw the XFR-S, particularly in bright blue with a big spoiler as light hearted, clearly unusual (since you can't buy a 2.2d in French Racing Blue), very fast if you want yet perfectly useable and takes all our favourite things about the S-Type's dynamics and improves on it all.
Whether you think it looks gauche or not may or may not matter. I had been planning to buy a used BMW V10 M6 the day I left my deposit for the XFR-S because I've had 3 old-man Jags already and whilst nice, I wanted something more and a bit more fun. The XFR-S has meant Jaguar has had a sale out of me that they probably wouldn't have had otherwise because I didn't really find the XFR all that compelling as a package.
Came into this thread expecting you to whip up a storm! You know me as Craig S..., Jediali being my lurking identity. Your brief explanation puts a car like this into good perspective. This review brings a lot of good praise too so I guess it can only make you more excited about the new car arriving.I have never aspired to an Audi, and you'll see that I've got a history of Jaguars including a green one with cream interior and maple dashboard.
My wife loves our Jags but is still in her late 20s and I'm 33. We wanted something with the performance of our Cerbera and exciting to drive but refined, every-day useable for my wife who is an enthusiastic driver but a full-time mother so the car had to be capable of carrying our children about plus a big boot for going on trips. There was an XKR which was nice and an XKR-S which was more expensive. We started out looking to spend £23k on a BMW that day, then a £33k XKR, dismissed the £55k XKR-S when the kids clearly wouldn't fit in the XKR then resigned to needing an XF of some sort. XJs are ok but too big to park in the sorts of carparks we need to go to and I don't like the back end much. It's also a bit mature still which I personally wanted to get away from and an XJR is close to £100k which I felt would be too big a financial sacrifice to our lifestyle if I used the BMW money as deposit and got the rest on finance.
She test drove a V6 diesel XF and liked the similarity to our S-Type in terms of its chassis and controls feel and layout, but didn't like the engine. We thought about an XFR last year, thinking sensible colours etc but it's just not that special when you can now buy a 2.2 diesel aRSeport which looks the same, and whilst nice and engaging the S-Type chassis is beyond its best with 500bhp.
We saw the XFR-S, particularly in bright blue with a big spoiler as light hearted, clearly unusual (since you can't buy a 2.2d in French Racing Blue), very fast if you want yet perfectly useable and takes all our favourite things about the S-Type's dynamics and improves on it all.
Whether you think it looks gauche or not may or may not matter. I had been planning to buy a used BMW V10 M6 the day I left my deposit for the XFR-S because I've had 3 old-man Jags already and whilst nice, I wanted something more and a bit more fun. The XFR-S has meant Jaguar has had a sale out of me that they probably wouldn't have had otherwise because I didn't really find the XFR all that compelling as a package.
Need to give you my new address!
A Scotsman said:
It's not 4WD and for that price it darn well should be.
Agree with other peoples responses. Since when does 4wd vs Rwd dictate the premium market on cost? Somebody must tell Ferrari, Mac, Rolls Royce etc they are too expensive and should have 4wd.I'm pretty sure Lambo charged more for their Balboni with just 2 wheels peddled over the 4wd?
Strange strange comment.
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