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Test drive Jaguar XJ Long: Weapons of Mass ahead

In the company of the new Jaguar XJ with an elongated base, the Kolesa.ru portal broke his own record of the cost of the test car, received a massage session without leaving the driver's seat, and miraculously escaped a fine for a triple speed excess.

Neoclassicism
The Jaguar XJ was first shown at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September 2009 a new generation of representative sedan has been produced for the third year, but Russian sales began only in June last year.

XJ is available with a short and elongated base, depending on where the owner of the jaguar is going to sit; In the second version, the space of the legs of the rear seat passengers is increased by 125 mm, which allows the leg to sit on the leg, turning the fresh newspaper.

A centuries -old history from XJ does not smell like this ultramodern sedan without a hint of conservatism. If you remove all the nurses from a luxurious massive body, the car can be taken for Maserati, Bentley or Infiniti. It is good or bad to judge customers, but it would be easier to get 4 million rubles for antiques with a modern filling than to deal with competitors in the premium class according to their rules. Especially with the Germans

Would you like to massage?
Jaguar has a magnificent salon sheathed with high -quality skin and natural wood. Of the new technologies, an electronic dashboard. It not only changes the picture, showing either a speedometer, then music, navigation, but also changes the design of the scales depending on the selected mode: in the winter algorithm, the edging of the devices is turquoise, in the sports red, and in the usual mode, silver.

Inside the Jaguar is closer than it might seem before it ended up in the cabin. The central tunnel is raised to the level of the driver’s elbow, an arc from natural wood is laid under the front panel (it feels like you are sitting in a boat), and wide armrests stick out of the side doors. It is better for a full drivers to choose an SUV, and everyone else to relax and enjoy.

The best way to do this to turn on the function of massage for the front seats, which can be combined with heating or ventilation. Or put a driver’s wheel behind the wheel and turn on the DVD-player screen with separate viewing technology allows the driver and passenger of the front seat at the same time watch completely different contents on the same screen. For example, while the driver monitors the instructions of the navigation system, the passenger can watch a television program or a film on DVD.

Not more than two
In a representative of the representative class, especially with an elongated base, person No. 1 should be located behind. The owner of Jaguar can move alone or together, but if you sit back three, it will be crowded. In the ceiling there are recesses for the head, and two passengers definitely fall into them with the tops. Three misses, resting against the ceiling (with a height above 180 cm) and also experiencing tightness in the shoulders. However, for the transportation of passengers, expensive sedans have a security SUV sticking behind ...

Not to offer more powerful
Like other Jaguar, the transmission modes in XJ switch using the Jaguardrive Selector system and steering wheel switches. A six -speed automatic gearbox requires the driver only to scroll the puck in the central tunnel to the desired position. A convenient and stylish detail that does not really knit with the classic image of the jaguar

A 5.0 liter engine with a capacity of 470 hp - Not the most powerful engine possible for installation. There is another 515-horsepower version of Supersport. But what is you need to be a maniac in order to give an additional 45 hp. In addition to the already murderously powerful unit and reduce 0.3 seconds of acceleration to 100 km/h, improved disgustingly long 5.2 seconds. Especially strongly the power of the engine is felt on slippery coating; Even the stabilization system cannot stop the overkill of gas. If you overdo it with an accelerator in a bend, the back axis on a slippery road will probably be on the next lane.

But if the asphalt is dry and the road is straight, why not tear yourself away?! The herd of fierce horses will return even a sophisticated driver by the years when an old Opel seemed to him a formula car. The main thing is not to forget to press the button with a checkered flag. It clamps the suspension slightly, exacerbates the reactions to gas and dulls ESP.

My place on the left?
Jaguar XJ Long powerful, beautiful and very expensive vehicle. And this is also a great way to prove to millionaire friends that you have no less money, and the desire to express even more. But the question remained unanswered where the owner should sit in Jaguar XJ: driving or behind? For the driver in the line of the brand there is XKR and charged XF, and overpay for a long British sedan (which no longer looks like British) to sit in front

In full equipment
In the long -bore Jaguar XJ, there is already a panoramic glass roof in the database, bixenon headlights with LEDs, a virtual liquid crystal dashboard, a navigation system with a hard drive, an inch touch screen, a suspension (rear - pneumatic) with changed rigidity of the shock absorbers, 4-zone climate control and other charms that cannot be put in your car even for a surcharge. The test Portfolio also had a 1.2-kilowatt audio system of the High-End class, 20-inch wheels, adaptive headlights, seats with functions of heating, cooling and massage, digital TV tuner, monitoring system of dead zones.

More than six million
The cost of a long-drawn XJ in Russia starts from 4,040,000 rubles is the price of a sedan with a 3.0-liter diesel engine in the Premium Luxury configuration. In a more expensive version of Portfolio with a 3.0-liter gasoline engine, a long-drawn Jaguar will cost 4,360,000 rubles (and with a diesel engine 4,530,000).

With a gasoline 5.0-liter engine with a capacity of 385 hp Jaguar costs from 4,775,000 rubles. Jaguar XJ in the Portfolio configuration with a long base and a 5.0-liter 470-horsepower turbo engine will cost 5,600,000 rubles, and the most expensive with the immodest name Supersport and a 510-horsepower version of a guddy motor of 6,150,000 rubles.

Maintenance
Jaguar XJ Long needs to go through every 16,000 km or once a year.

CASCO
The CASCO policy for XJ is like a new domestic car. Insure the long-drawn XJ Portfolio with a 5.0-liter 470-horsepower engine in a test configuration (in the reservoir company reserv) will cost 245,200 rubles (subject to the age of 28 to 36 years, more than 2 years, without a franchise and an anti-theft system, when car cost 5,600,000 rubles).


The car is provided for the test by the company Autobiography, an official jaguar dealer.
 




Competitors Jaguar XJ Long
BMW 7 Series
Audi A8
Lexus LS
Porsche Panamera

Author: Alexander Korobchenko
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 

A source: Wheel magazine [February 2011]