Leaving abaft retro-inspired designs,
Jaguar has alien an acutely avant-garde affluence auto that's amid the sportiest available. With a different autogenous abounding with high-tech toys and an accessible supercharged engine, the
2009 Jaguar XF is an intruiging advantage for affluence car shoppers. The abridgement of an all-wheel-drive advantage hurts the XF, however, and some reviewers accuse of bound visibility.
The
Jaguar XF has added personality than abounding affluence cars. Outside, it looks advancing and poised, with a coupe-like profile. Jag traditionalists ability ache the archetypal attending of the S-type it replaces, but best of the automotive columnist loves the adult fresh shape. Motor Trend advises, "Make no administration judgments until you've apparent the XF in person. Distinctive as it may attending in photos, in the metal the
Jaguar XF radiates a change and attractiveness that artlessly don't construe to the printed page."
Inside, it is abounding with suprise-and-delight features, like a spun nickel rotary drive punch instead of a shifter, which rises out of the animate back the car is started, and a alpha button that pulses until you blow it to burn the car's big engine.
The
Jaguar XF makes no abstruse of its antic intentions. There is no V6 here. The
Jaguar XF is accessible with a able V8 or an asphalt-rippling supercharged V8. For 2009, the XF is one of Car and Driver's 10Best cars.
The absence of alike alternative all-wheel-drive, however, ability advance some buyers against added performance-oriented affluence cars. The Audi A6 can't bout the XF's supercharged V8 on power, but it outcorners
Jaguar's car because of its accomplished Quattro AWD system.
The
Jaguar XF is rated for 16 MPG in the burghal and 25 on the highway, agreement it abreast the middle-of-the-pack amid ample affluence sedans. The XF's big powerplant requires exceptional fuel.
The columnist doesn't apperceive what to accomplish of the XF's body quality. Jaguar, a marque already accepted for believability problems, afresh angry for aboriginal in J.D. Ability and Associates' Agent Dependability Study, animadversion Lexus from the podium. But this agent was recalled two times in its aboriginal few months on the market.
The
Jaguar XF is accessible in three trims -- the Affluence model, the Exceptional Affluence and the Supercharged. The Affluence and Exceptional Affluence are powered by a 4.2-liter V8 that makes 300 application and 310 pound-feet of torque, while the Supercharged model's 4.2-liter V8 agent makes 420 application and 413 pound-feet of torque. All three models affection a six-speed automated transmission.
