Jaguar XF test drive since 2007 sedan
Animate noun
High technologies did not turn Jaguar into a cyborg. The fleeting, but still very exciting acquaintance with the new XF revealed the subtle mental organization of the machine. The time of the young
The humpbacked nose on the hood and the very nose of the radiator grill, chrome mustache in the bumper, slanting eyes with advanced pupils and Lenin cunning, a large cat is calm, but conceived something. If she strokes her, he murdures, but with a foot on the tail can be angry. Jag is all like a compressed spring. He knows that he does not look like his thoroughbred relatives. But he also knows that nevertheless no less thoroughbred than they are. And he has a serious advantage of youth and an energy beating with a key.
If you think straightforwardly, then there are no direct quotes from the British classics in a new car, well, perhaps a profile with a pretty roll roof. But this is not a revelation, right? And evil languages \u200b\u200beven say that Lexus with the headlights from Legasi visually guesses in the jag. Well, maybe, and what if the harmonious and stylistically impeccable XF is perceived by a dynamic, swift sedan, which for the sake of giving the contours of the sportkup? For me, it is better to admire the appearance of a wild cat than to look for the features of other animals in it. And the new jag is really beautiful.
And yet, any jaguar today, and ten, thirty, and sixty years ago is not only beauty and breed, but also a soul, a sense of life.
In one touch
The salon meets me with restrained luxury. Everything is natural here: aluminum, and wood, and skin. However, there is still more metal. And even the entire front panel is entirely tightened into the skin. And also seats, doors, the steering wheel is curious: as if immodest, but at the same time very restrained.
Even despite naturally wooden inserts, the interior looks supernomely. Real high-tech!
The chairs are regulated by electric drives, heated and ventilated, the ocular helm is also equipped with heating, and the steering column helpfully rises, facilitating landing. I want to give a tip! A huge number of functions are entrusted to the sensory display: here is navigation control, multimediasist, and microclimate, and all heating are also turned on with iPhone style fingers. The music on our car was custom -made with acoustics of the audio -Russian brand Bowers and Wilkins with a volumetric sound system. Probably, the midbasses with a carbon fiber diffuser and aluminum tweeters are cool, but the sound somehow did not impress me: apparently, I have not yet grown until the perception of equipment of this level.
In the armrest hidden under the lid on a hypertrophied central tunnel of the pantry, interface connectors are hidden for connecting ay-pole and flash drive
But everything else in the cabin is impressive. In particular, those things that are done just for the sake of show -offs. Say, the sensory opening of the glove box that responds to touch the circle on a wooden strip located above it. In the same way, with a slight touch, the lamps in the ceiling on the ceiling near the rear view mirror are lit. But the chandelier over the rear passengers turns on the old fashioned way by pressing. They saved on the chip or emphasized the uniqueness of the position of the owner, who must take the driver's seat without fail? Probably. Moreover, it is unlikely that the owner of the car will become a frequent guest of the rear sofa: there are few places on the second row. If someone is high in front of the front, then the knees of the permitted behind him will strive to contact with the back of the chair. Yes, and the sloping ceiling, spied at the compartment, is at an too tender distance from the head.
Therefore, rather, I hasten to return to the driver's place, especially since now I have a spiritualistic session with the evidence of the spirit of the car. It is time to breathe life into Jaguar!
Good morning!
The cat feels the approach of the owner (a key-tank serves it with a hint), and you just need to take up the handle, as the locks are immediately unlocked. And when the jaguar tamer is driving, the beast covers joyful excitement: this is the only way I can interpret the pulsation of the engine start button. Click me! She screams, and I cannot refuse her. The ignition turns on, a V-shaped six, the instrument and display, the blue paint (blue blood?) Wakes up under the hood, the devices and the display are poured from the central tunnel smoothly rises the metal washer of the transmission selector. At the same time, from a wide aluminum insert in the central panel, microclimate deflectors turn out. Everything, the cat finally opened her eyes. But I'm already bewitched: Jaguar’s awakening is most impressive.
The driver’s chair cannot be called sports, it is primarily comfortable: it doesn’t press, does not press and at the same time it will not allow you to eat. The steering wheel is quite large, but convenient, and most importantly beautiful; And the wheels responsible for the volume of the audio system and the heads of the switching of radio stations, and the ergonomic find in my life did not see anything more logical in life. Only a terrible chrome muzzle, which snaps at me from the hub, looks creepy.
The rear sofa is cramped for a car of this class
Luke with electric drive can be ordered for an additional fee of 38,700 rubles
You can't call the rear door opening
Microclimate management is no longer so completely. If you trust the automation, just set the desired temperature keys on the central console and adjust the fan speed. But if you want to experiment with the direction of air flows, you will have to use the services of a sensory display, and for this to be distracted from the road, which, you yourself understand, is not comme il faut. Yes, and with music the same problem, by and large: the wheels so loved by me on the steering wheel are far from omnipotent, and everything that is beyond them, balance, list of stations, again requires enhanced palpation of the sensory surface of the screen.
By the way, if suddenly the display gets bored, it can be given to the screensaver with one pressing the button, of which several hours with a jumping beast to the British flag are provided.
To free rein! At the idle speed of the engine in the cabin, you can’t hear at all. But if it should be gasped, the closer the brilliant tip of the tachometer arrow is selected to the red zone of the scale, the more dissatisfied the roar published by the jag. But what is wasolated to anger a predator? It's time to let him go to the open spaces of the streets!
The puck of the box selector was not just a stylish little thing, but also a very accurate tool: switching between the transmission modes occur very noble and unusually tasty with a soft slice. But it is not necessary to act from the handbrake: it is electric here, and to start the movement it is enough to simply press the gas pedal of the pads on the gas pedal themselves will weaken the grip.
With its dimensions, the XF is surprisingly vague and even with a base 3-liter engine amazes the speed of the speed set of speed very, very good. However, no stunning jumps, nor the plebeian jerking, the machine does not allow the whole body of jagia the embodiment of grace. It’s just amazing how tactful the car is!
True, I can’t call the smoothness outstanding. Yes, the car is perceived exclusively comfortable, but it is quite hard in a good way hard comfort. It is understandable: it is impossible to wait for miracles from the car, which instilled sporting habits and, for eating beauty, presented 19-inch wheels with low-profile rubber. But for the asphalt, the jaguar clings simply unrealistic to be a very decisive person to bring XF to the limit. But if you still try to do this, collecting the will into a fist, then the stabilization system is tamed for the most presumed tamer. Of course, it can be turned off, but is it necessary? Agree, to feel the boundaries of the commonplace on public roads is more than risky.
The brakes of the machine are made with a large margin, and it is a pleasure to control them the pedal becomes clear with semi -gathering. The only thing that embarrassed me in the jaga was a light steering wheel, the effort on which, moreover, in a bend changes through the algorithm that I incomprehensible, then it is heavy, then suddenly becomes completely weightless.
Intimate talk In short, many hundred kilometers will not be needed to understand: XF is not just a machine, not just a mechanism. It is much closer to living creatures than the vast majority of other cars. He is not perfect, only his imperfection is not the result of any flaws, but a consequence of the presence of character. It is permeated with love, but not such a burning all -consuming passion as Italian cars, but a more restrained feeling. Jag does not demonstrate his emotions, he extracts them from you.
If we talk about things more objective and noticeable, then XF is significantly cheaper than the CLS 4-door compartment close in the format of the Mercedes 4-door compartment and is quite comparable in cost with German classmates. However, Jaguar is a kind of chic without a shade of pop and, as a result, a special status. Plus a shower in the basic configuration.
There is everything, but you can even more
Even in the starting configuration of lakesher with a 3-liter engine of 238 liters. With. For 1,900,000 rubles, XF does not at all look like a poor relative of the cat family. Six pillows, a stabilization system, a leather salon with an electroregulation of the front seats, an electrified leather multiple, climate control, initially good music, commanding everyone and the entire 7-inch touch display, R18 wheels, and so on the list is very indiscriminate. The next level is the same motor, but the richer premium-laxheri equipment (2,045,000 rubles), including sophisticated front seats with even more adjustments, access without key, audio system more interesting and further on trifles. The list of options includes 19-inch wheels, hatch, bixenon, rear view camera, TV tuner, navigation, monitoring system of dead zones and other barking.
Well, the most expensive will be XF with a 4.2-liter V8. The hopeless engine develops 298 forces (from 2,580,000 rubles), and its compressor modification already issues 416 liters. With. (3,160,000 rubles at least). Expensive? But 8-cylinder machines are also equipped even better.
Jaguar XF 3.0
common data
Body, number of places/doors
Sedan, 5/4
Equipped/complete mass, kg
1679/2215
Length x width x height, mm
4961x1877x1460
Base, mm
2675
Front/back, mm track
1559/1571
The diameter of the turn, m
11.5
Speed, km/h
237
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, with
8.3
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
7.5/15.8
Trunk volume (5/2 places), l
500/923
The volume of the fuel tank, l
69.5
Engine
Location
The front is longing
Design
gasoline, V-shaped, 6-cylinder
Working volume, SMZ
2967
Power, L.S. at rpm
238/6800
Torque, kgsm at rpm
29.9/4100
Chassis
Drive unit
On the front wheels
Transmission
Automatic 6-st.
Suspension:
Independent, spring
front
on transverse levers
behind
Mollycent
Steering
rack type with amplifier
Brakes
disk, ventilated
Car
from 19.54 rubles/km
+
Bright appearance; magnificent running qualities; Interesting interior solutions
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A harsh suspension
Kirill Brevdo, photo of Maxim Goncharov
Source: Magazine buy a car [05/2008]
