Wednesday 29th February 2012

Jaguar XF Sportbrake: official pics and details

These are the first official images and details of the new Jaguar XF Sportbrake

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It's the car we've all been waiting for; a Jaguar (car) with enough boot space to humanely fit in a jaguar (cat). Flippant remarks aside, the XF Sportbrake (read: estate in marketing-speak) is a crucial car for Jaguar, allowing it to take on the likes of the Audi A6 Avant, BMW 5 Series touring and Mercedes E-Class estate.

Now usually it's not really our thing to talk about such things as boot space (1675 litres with the seats down), remote-fold levers for the rear seats, an extra 48mm of headroom, or a soft-close tailgate that can be specified with a fully powered open/close functionality, but these things are important on estates. So there we are - we've just mentioned them.

Of perhaps more interest is the self-levelling rear air suspension, or the Adaptive Dynamics System - which continuously monitors the suspension and can adjust damping rates accordingly up to 500 times a second. Or maybe the fact that the XF Sportbrake matches the saloon for rigidity and aerodynamic drag...

As for motive power, from launch the Sportbrake will be diesel only, with the 2.2-litre four-cylinder and two versions of Jaguar's 3.0-litre V6 turbodiesel available - the higher of which will be the 442lb ft, 275hp version.

There is also rumour of a V8 petrol version, but Jag is keeping shtum on that for now...

 

[Big News]

Need.

Always much preferred big estates to their saloon siblings - especially fast ones!

[Lunja]

Looks amazing, but isn't it a bit late? Surely this model shape doesn't have many more years left?

[benzito]

Its better looking than a lot of the rival german estates IMO

[Fabric]

Lovely.

[vit4]

That's the best looking of the bunch by far! XFR-estate Yes please...

[LHD]

Can't wait to spec the demo.

I'm thinking Premium Luxury S with heated screen, powered tailgate and 20" wheels (unsure which design yet)

Colour - Either Lunar or Stratus Grey with Warm Charcoal leather.

[0a]

That looks so good compared to the 5 series / A6 estates.

[paranoid airbag]

I'll have the R version, and an XK-R please

[waremark]

I thought they were going to do a 4wd version. Anyone know anything about this?

[rogerhudson]

The old Aston Martin 'shooting brake' conversions showed the way decades ago, I hope the tailgate lets one sit to watch Polo etc. I agree that 4WD would help the green wellie brigade.
Another good (great?) car from JLR.

[MartinF]

If I was fifteen years older, with a wife, a couple of kids and perhaps a dog, this would be top of my list.

But, as has probably been said, what with the new A6 and 5-series, isn't this model a bit long in the tooth to be playing with shooting-brakes?

Still, yes please.

[Hitch78]

Wonderful looking thing - can someone please order an XFR Shootingbrake in black with red leather and keep it clean for about three years for me please?!

[anonymous-user]

waremark said:

I thought they were going to do a 4wd version. Anyone know anything about this?

XF AWD due this winter. Hope they hurry up and put the V8 in the shooting brake so we can have it in the USA.

[williamp]

ahh quick, its a Jaguar. It looks like...no wait..it MUST look like another car. Its a jaguar afterall. It looks like....

a great looking car. Well done JLR.

[Stuart]

Really great looking car BUT, I cannot stand the DRLs on the facelift XF. They look like a string of lights on a gaudy Christmas tree with the way that they span (and overemphasise) the otherwise rather elegant lower line of the headlamp binnacle.

That aside, I think that this is probably the best looking car in its class. It'll be interesting to see how it fares when we get the chance to drive it.

[fathomfive]

Lovely.

[Stuart70]

Off to the jag dealer today. Found the new family car!

[_Deano]

I really like the look of this

[Skater12]

That is one damn sexy looking estate car!
I know what i'll be looking at now as my next company derv burner.

[g3org3y]

Are we ever going to get back to the days of 'coupe', 'estate' or 'hatchback' etc?

Looks decent though.