RE: Jaguar XE Project 8 'Touring Specification'

[john_stewart]

On my views, this is the best sports car Jaguar has ever made. I am utterly bewildered by the smash of the Nurburgring lap record for the saloon cars

[C7 JFW]

A Touring Edition is a wise approach to shift the remaining cars.

I suspect they'll struggle to shift them due to the price, but once they have, they'll have rock solid residuals.

Cool car, crazy fast - let's hope Jag can transfer the knowledge gained from this technical project over to regular road cars competing in the 3 series segment.

[Puntoboy]

As with everything Jaguar seems to be doing in the last 5 years, too little, too late.

They released the Project 8 too late, well into the life of the XE and now it has the old interior compared to the updated facelift released a few months ago. Build quality is suspect as well, every one I have looked at has horrible panel gaps, but again, this is something the original XE suffered, the facelift is much better in this department.

They struggled to sell the "exclusive 300 units" so they've now brought out this touring version which we believe to be the same price as the full fat version. Just buy the full fat version, take the spoiler off and sell it.

The Touring should have been a circa 500bhp "XE SVR" to compete directly with the entry level M3/M4, Guilia, C63 etc. They could have put the new 4.4 TT V8 they are procuring from BMW in it as well. It's really about time they released a car with this engine, they've been testing it for over 2 years!

[monthefish]

gigglebug said:

monthefish said:

Is this news?

I thought it was offered with the back seats/without the big rear wing/etc from launch?

The only options at the time were to either have the rear bench seats or roll cage and harnesses, the wing was compulsory as it stood. There is thread on here where I asked someone who had placed an order if he knew if there was any chance of Jaguar supplying the car without the wing and he replied by saying something along the lines of that he had asked the question himself, as he would have personally preferred not to have had it, but they had said no. I wonder if he was able to amend his specification at a later date?

So it's basically the option to delete the wing?
Again, is this really news?

[gigglebug]

monthefish said:

So it's basically the option to delete the wing?
Again, is this really news?

Well it was clearly news to you as you mistakenly thought it was an option from launch, when it wasn't. If providing information that you might not already be aware of isn't the prerequisite of an article then what is?

[monthefish]

gigglebug said:

monthefish said:

So it's basically the option to delete the wing?
Again, is this really news?

Well it was clearly news to you as you mistakenly thought it was an option from launch, when it wasn't. If providing information that you might not already be aware of isn't the prerequisite of an article then what is?

In other news, the cost of the optional drivers armrest on the Citroen Berlingo has been increased to £169.10. You probably weren't aware of that.

[gigglebug]

monthefish said:

In other news, the cost of the optional drivers armrest on the Citroen Berlingo has been increased to £169.10. You probably weren't aware of that.

Your completely incomparable and irrelevant response serves no purpose other than to highlight you're own personal misunderstandings, meant in jest or not. A simple price increase to a previously available option in no shape or form constitutes the same gesture as releasing a brand new additional specification, including previously denied options, that would undoubtedly be desirable to some over the previously available iterations.

Your thinly veiled implication that the information within the article, or indeed the 'Touring' specification changes themselves, would have to be relevant, or deemed significant enough, to either a) absolutely everyone, or more bizarrely b) you personally is questionable to say the least.

But let's look on the bright side. You have been able to correct some personal knowledge that you were getting wrong and anyone wishing to take something from the information within the article, or indeed the change to the car's specification itself, will quite happily have done so regardless of your understanding of it.

Edited by gigglebug on Wednesday 12th June 15:36