Jaguar XF test drive since 2007 sedan

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The maximum speed of the new Jaguar XF, according to my observations, is 100-120 JPG/hour. Or TIFF/H. I do not know in what format of jeeps, tiffah or bitmaps they remove violators of the speed mode on the Riviera autobahns. They can sculpt their birthdays even on the good old film. But I know that the number of such images in the portfolio of Likhach is limited only to the number of cameras on the sidelines. And I also know for sure that soon the greedy French police will send to the editorial office and a couple of photos with my physiognomy taken by surprise in the application to the penalty receipts with an unpleasant amount to pay.
The owner of Jaguar XF has a left pocket, as they say in American cinema, cannot and should never be empty. And to the radars, and for police jeeps, and fines he should be prepared both morally and financially. If you want to ride in this car, pay and roll. The company Jaguar, it seems, themselves do not really understand what kind of beast they released. And why, in general, this disguise for a moderate and neat sedan of such a reckless and driver car, for which, obviously, the transplantation of the wisers from the XK could not go in vain. And if the heart transplant from the XK rangrover can still be solidly argued, the same operation in relation to the new sedan is pure water provocation.
Of course, no one is going to provoke a stiff business public XF. Part of this audience, having a taste, will still choose a more spacious and representative XJ. Part of the public without taste, but with the concepts of corporate discipline or just with concepts, will buy what is in the eternal Russian trend. That is, something ampir and black. So Jaguar XF is the fun of young ones when the coolness (in this case manifests itself in the amount of L.S.) and the funnyness of the thing blocks any other advantages: functional, operational or image.
XF is cool. Even with a 3-liter, 240-horsepower engine, the car goes quickly enough to surprise others and be surprised himself. The three -spoke steering wheel, which makes a little more than two and a half revolutions from the stop to the stop, the gear petals, the sports mode of the box is already enough for healthy adventurism. We note, however, that the feeling of risk on XF does not increase directly in proportion to speed, but in a certain negative progression. Here the best plays a role than any other serial Jaguar, aerodynamics (0.29 CX). But here it is also important that the XF has a characteristic property of car solidyak to conceal swift kilometers-hours with a dense body (in Xf it is out of 25 types of steel and the most durable in the class), a durable suspension and good finishing materials: natural unperformed skin Softgrain, aluminum, tungsten, American satin tree and Morzine technology.
XF with the usual atmospheric V8 (300 hp), and even more so with an eight that has super -rearrangement and 420 horses, will inevitably force the driver to make an audit of views on the limits of his capabilities. No wonder for a super -charged version on the tunnel there is a special key with the image of a checkered racing flag. Tear this flag, completely turn off the DSC course stability system and remove responsibility from the manufacturer for your extravagance.
XF is cool, but even more important, it is cool. It’s like an iPhone, for which it is not a pity to throw away or shove in cheaply faith and truth that served Siemens, without a noble nokia, or even a completely fresh vert. Those who came up with XF are large marketing walks, who know the psychology of modern boys of Balzac age, for which the main thing is to have a trick.
For example: in the basic configuration of the iPod machine. What is not a dabble? Even this one would be enough for an energetic advertising promotion. But the car has a lot of chips (partly, by the way, thanks to Apple, whose experts participated in the development of the program and the design of the salon display). They, naturally and logical for the XF driver, show off in the first place. The contactless invisible key in the pocket and the absence of the ignition lock yesterday seemed to be the same fantastic as the F-117 Stealth fighter. Today, the F-117 was sent to a dusty spare hangar, and the invisible key to the expense, or rather, in the spray in completely budget, inexpensive models. In the XF, penetration into the salon without hands is no more surprised than the independent operation of the apartment English castle. This attraction program for the user it begins when it presses the Start engine start button. Comparison of this button with the defibriller is not entirely correct, but asks for a line. After pressing it, the car comes to life, the button itself is poured with a healthy scarlet color and begins to pulsate almost to the beat of the driver's heart. Another press on the button, and everything around the scale of the devices, the dick on the tunnel, the space around the door handles is painted in blue phosphorus. Neither give nor take a mobile phone. The motor begins to work at full power. The plugs on the ventilation nostrils, turning around its axis, hide in their depths, the car breathes evenly and freely.
Under the right hand, a magic stump occurs on the central tunnel, remaining from the lever of the gearbox. Phantom reflex grab the lever to switch or put the car on the parking, will pursue the user for some time. But the designers, according to them, softened the pain of the loss of this organ. And the panel itself, where new controls are located, must suggest the corresponding associations. Put with a finger along the bend of this panel, one of the creators broadcast at the presentation, and you get a shift line between the second and third transmission. He is closely, but convinces. As for the new Cotroller of the programs, the driver will not spend much time to master the J-Drive washer. All manipulations with translation to p, r, n, d are given with extraordinary ease. A little difficulty can only arise with the transition to the sport-mode, unless, of course, you need to slightly crush the small trick of the selector puck before turning from D to s.
Another kind of trick in the spirit of espionage novels. A stranger never open a glove compartment in the cabin, because this casket is a secret. And only a random pumpkin in a target drawn on the panel is revealed this secret. The front lights of a fairly light touch are also equipped with touch sensors to turn on the light. The lack of extra buttons is one of the main ergonomic principles according to which the driver’s workplace is organized and, apparently, the guarantee that the driver in XF has the best in the class of personal space with a volume of 9 liters. How much the decision to remove the adjustment of heating of the seats from the outskirts affected the record litter, I do not know. However, in the XF, the beneficial functions of heating and ventilation of the fifth point should now be sought in the touch screen menu in the climate control section.
The fact that the Jaguar XF is a completely obvious design project is recognized even by the manufacturer who almost completely giving the car to the young team of creative people. And we should not be surprised that even information about finding someone else's machine in the blind zone is not supplied here using banal light flashes (as on Audi Q7 or Volvo S80), but with the help of icons in the form of a pair of cars. Their images appear like on a computer screen directly on the surface of the side mirrors. It also seems that it was the young Yaguar punny that he was healed into the XF project of the time of the time of the manufacturer of the audio equipment of Bowers & Wilkins. Thus, having given the owners of Jaguar XF another reason for diet. In fact: such a steep hobby-sound has not yet been in any serial car.

Abstracts after
1: There are not so many stretches in the XF advertising - this car can almost everything that a real cat should be able to.
2: Jaguar XF is equipped with an anti-kiryan pedestrian protection system. The hood XF works automatically and as a pillow softens the blow.
3: IPOD and USB, the obligatory elements of the Infotainment system are synchronized and controlled through the car's touch screen.
4: A pneumatic suspension with the speaking name of Cats and automatic adjustment of the stiffness of shock absorbers allows XF to gently run along the road.
Jaguar XF
Engine - V8 S/C
Working volume (l) 2968 - 4196
Power (l. P. At rpm) 240 at 6800 - 420 at 6250
Moment (Nm at rpm) 293 at 4100 - 560 at 3500
The rear drive
Gearbox 6-speed automatic
Length/width/height (mm) 4960/1877/2047
Full mass (kg) 2215 - 2330
Maximum speed (km/h) 237 - 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.35.5
Fuel consumption, medium (l/100 km) 10.8 - 12.6
Price in Moscow (rub) 1,865,000 - 3 130 000
Text: Khasan Ganiev
Photo: Jaguar Cars Ltd.
 

Source: "Autopilot"