Test drive Jaguar XJ 2007 - 2009 sedan

NOBLE NEST

I flew to London two days before the end of my half -year British visa. This terribly did not like the strict uniform lady in passport control. Her eyes narrowed, her hand reached for the phone, steel rang in her voice. Why to us? Where do they intend to live? I timidly submitted a sheet with the presentation of the Jaguar XJ presentation and address: Hartwell House. The lady read. I checked with the database. Slowly melted. I let me into England. Everything is fine. Suppliers of shelters in the jaguars do not drive and do not settle in the estates. Well, unless the chosen ones are scandalously known, but I am not in that database.
Rural club. We were presented to each other in the club. After all, it is not customary to just get acquainted in England; There it is certainly necessary that you (and you) be presented. And not everywhere, but preferably in the club. At least this time we visited just such England. This is a very solid and rich, very thoroughbred and refined England. Just like in a movie. There are a lot of moron oak, marble fireplaces and golf fields; There, do not believe it, kiss the ladies with a pen and drink tea at exactly five; There, lords go in the gray bacenbards there (however, maybe they were waiters, but it is not important).
 
So, we were presented to each other with the new Jaguar XJ at Stoke Park Golf Club, England. By the way, in this golf club in the 60s, one of the most famous films of Bondo-Goldfinger was shot. In the Golf party, where Sean Connery played with Goldfinger on the bar of Nazi gold, the assistant Goldfinger, a villain, replaced the ball, but Bond-Conduct won, after which the villain threw up his hat with a field field, and she cut off his head At the statue, and Goldfinger said that it was useless to complain to the club secretary of the property, since he is the club secretary. I don’t know who is the secretary there now (Goldfinger, Bond, crooked as part of the murder license), but the club has not changed at all, except that the main building was repainted. In this England, little is changing. And since Jaguar flesh from her flesh, is it worth it to be surprised that if it is updated, then very, very slowly. It is strange, by the way, that Bondiana discriminates this noble brand-in some series on Jaguar, the main enemy of all mankind was put on Jaguar, and Bond defeated him on Aston Martin. It's a shame, huh? But in any case, the brand fits perfectly into all this aristocratic English life - to the heap to the golf, lady and gentlemen, tuxedos, estates ... Yes, and the estate, by the way, was also called the Hartwell House, we spent the night in it, - And the new Jaguar XJ looked not bad at the main entrance against the backdrop of the noble -shaped equestrian statue of the Prince of the XVII century. And we also stopped on the famous Bedford Autodrome training track, and XJ also looked there, but, however, only as a decoration; And we chased on the prototypes of JP1 (mini-le-man kars, as they are called) and on combat racing XKR, prepared by the Palmer Drive School. However, this is a topic for a separate conversation, I now recall the highway because the new XJ is stylistically slightly deployed, and in his appearance in Bedford there was a clear hint that nothing adrenaline was alien to him. (Well, there were three in one of our cars, and in the other - four hundred horses.)
 
Better left than in a basin. Of course, England is different. There is one where people live simply, go to work, get acquainted without ceremonies, sit in pubs before closing (at 23.00), noisily discuss Polonium-210 and Chelsea's chances against arsenal, and go to old Vokshalls. But this time we in such England, consider, were not. Rather, we whistled along it, perceiving it through slightly tinted and strongly soundproofing multilayer glass of new XJ. And, frankly, it was not up to her. We are not very familiar to the steering wheel on the right and, most importantly, for driving on the left. I had to strain and think all the time (and this is a hard process), in particular, about how not to cut it out inadvertently to the oncoming one. But after twenty minutes there is no longer there, you get used to it and go without nerves, however, you can’t relax and switch your brains to autopilot. I note that it was much easier to adapt to driving on the wrong side than, for example (do not laugh), to the separate taps of the Old English bathroom in the Hartwell House estate. Oh these taps, how they are infringing me on! On the left is almost boiling, on the right is almost ice - to please mix in a sink with a plug. And where, sorry for naturalism, blow your nose, spit toothpaste, wash off foam from a razor?! Or maybe aristocrats do not do this? No, riding a British left is somehow easier than washing in a British basin.
Turn me five cellular. We drove on two cars, changing the rudders along the way - on the long -drawn XJ (4.2 V8, 298 hp) and the short -thawed XJR (4.2 V8 with a compressor, 395 hp). Both are black, with a white leather salon. Look! It’s scary without a tuxedo, so it seems that now you will be strictly indicated to the non-compliance of the dress code. They also go very worthy. One is more proud, softer; The other is behind more, more quickly, but both are powerful, solid, comfortable. Serious such machines, thoroughbred.
There are few innovations, but they are. The model is wished with a face, the emphasis in facelift is made on sports, it is now fashionable. On the front wings appeared glory borrowed from the XK (they used to be only in the special version of Portfolio), the spoiler has come to the trunk (try to see it), the bumpers, air intakes, namephors were changed ... The seats were re -designed - they are more compact, and, and,,,,,,,,,,, more compact Accordingly, the legs of the rear passengers have become more spacious. Bluetooth now allows you to cover up to five mobile phones, writing down telephone books from each in your memory and synchronizing books recorded from different phones. We also worked on the interior, expanded the configurations - in general, updated. Slightly. Surroundily. The aristocrats did not stake to fuss.
Yes, by the way, I almost forgot, it is important. If you think that I wrote a lice about the club-Dorya England, and there are very few about the new XJ, then I assure you, you are mistaken. There are only about Jaguar everywhere and nothing else. Even where, at first glance, about Bond, golf and sledges.
 
Jaguar xj/xjr
 
Gasoline engine 4.2 V8 gasoline 4.2 V8 with a compressor
Working volume (cubic meter) 4196 4196
Power (L.S. at rpm) 298 at 6000 395 at 6100
Moment (Nm at rpm) 411 at 4100 541 at 3500
The rear rear drive
Automatic gearbox 6-speed
Length/width/height (mm) 5216/1898/1463 (DL base) 5091/1898/1462
Equipped mass (kg) 1615 1659
Maximum speed (km/h) 250 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 6.6 5.3
Fuel consumption, average
(l/100 km) 11.4 12.1

Text Sergey Sorokin
Photo Jaguar Cars Ltd.
      
 

Source: "Autopilot"