LAST AUTO NEWS – GET A LOAD OF JAGUAR’S NEW XF ESTATE
Last Auto account – Get a amount of Jaguar’s new XF acreage Applied Jag exec set for Frankfurt show
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The XF is traveling XL! Jaguar is assertive to aggrandize its ambit with an acreage adaptation of the award-winning XF alehouse at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September.
There’s been no curtailment of new metal from the Coventry-based close of late, with hot R versions of both the XF and XK breaking cover, as able-bodied as the new high-performance XF Agent S. And the ancestors is set to abound added if the wagon joins the fray.
Auto Express has abstruse that the car at Frankfurt will be a agilely bearded assembly model, admitting referred to as a concept. And if the acknowledgment from the accessible is abundantly positive, it could access in dealers actuality next spring.
Whispers of an acreage alternative accept been circulating back actual aboriginal in the XF’s development. It was consistently the plan for a added ancestors aggressive adaptation to be the aboriginal new bodystyle spawned from the XF’s platform.
With the alehouse proving a sales hit, as able-bodied as acceptable abundant awards – including Auto Express’s Car of the Year appellation – the British maker has acutely absitively that the time is appropriate to aggrandize the XF range.
Engine choices are acceptable to mirror those offered on the saloon. That agency the new 3.0-litre twin-turbo agent will be accessible in two guises: the S, with 271bhp and 600Nm of torque, or a ashen adaptation carrying 238bhp and 500Nm. The added able car should complete the 0-60mph dart in about six seconds.
The absolute fireworks arise in the petrol line-up, though. Customers will be able to aces from a 238bhp 3.0-litre V6 or the all-new 5.0 V8. The closing delivers 397bhp in by itself aspirated anatomy or an absurd 503bhp if adapted with a supercharger in the XFR.
This flagship takes Jaguar into alien waters. It will battling accustomed chic leaders such as the badly able Audi RS6 Avant and BMW M5 Touring, as able-bodied as Mercedes’ approaching E63 AMG estate.
The XFR wagon promises 0-60mph in beneath 5 abnormal and a 155mph top acceleration – so it’s as fast as it is practical.
Under the skin, besides a few abeyance tweaks to atone for altered weight distribution, the acreage will allotment the aforementioned wheelbase and mechanicals as the XF saloon. That should accredit it to bear a analogously able aggregate of canoeing adeptness and cornering agility.
According to Jaguar, the four-door XF is affairs acutely well. Dealers common are alive about nine per cent added than they did at the aforementioned time endure year, bucking the trend for the bazaar as a whole. So aggregation administration are acutely agog to capitalise on this exhibit success.
They are aswell said to be because bearing coupé and cabriolet versions of the XF, commutual the ambit in style. Abstraction versions of these cars aren’t accepted to arise until sales of the acreage are able-bodied underway
next year, however.
Appearing alongside the XF acreage in Frankfurt will be addition above new Jag: the XJ concept. Chief artist Ian Callum has promised it will be the a lot of abolitionist estimation of the affluence archetypal ever.
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