West drive Jaguar XJ since 2009 sedan
Atypical flagship
On the eve of March 8, we appreciated Jaguar XJ the most elegant and feminine of all representative sedans, and at the same time asked for his star owner about what she was life with a wild cat. Moreover, for the acquaintance we chose the most powerful and expensive version. Jaguar XJ A unique phenomenon in the world of representative sedans. To begin with, it was created for the driver! Especially when it comes to XJ SuPersports with a 5-liter compressor AJ-V8 engine with a capacity of 510 liters. with. After all, this is not just a powerful flagship sedan, but a real athlete, on which you can grab a winding serpentine or even, as an experiment, go to the racing track.
The comfort of the rear passengers is lower than that of competitors: doors without closers, curtains on the side windows rise only manually, and the transformation of the rear sofa is limited only by a change in the angle of the back of the back. But there is a massage, heating and ventilation, a 4-zone climate control, a curtain with an electric drive on the rear window, a panoramic roof and a pair of screens in the head restraints of the front seats. You can control the rear multimediasist by means of a huge remote control with built-in LCD display. The main know-how in the interior of the display on the central console, showing the driver and passenger different images. While the navigation card is before the eyes of the steering, the passenger has on the same screen! TV show.
The finishing materials will satisfy the most demanding tastes: only leather, wood and metal. To find plastic, you have to try. And what a smell here! The quality here is literally smelling. And XJ is also athletic complicated not only externally. Thanks to the fully aluminum body, the weight of the car is about the same as that of the younger XF model.
Prices for the cheapest XJ with a 3-liter gasoline V6 begin with a mark of 3,415,000 rubles, but for a long-tan Supersports without 6,300,000 rubles. You can not even approach. All cars, except for the basic, are available with both standard and elongated wheeled bases.
Yurata Gurausk,
in Style editor -in -chief
Jaguar is a style in everything. Not only his surprisingly elegant, elongated, elegant forms are delighted (and I go to XJ, and each time you feel that you are swimming on a luxurious ship), but also his mind, sometimes even more accurately and more acute than the human, and even more so female. You just thought, but he has already done. Such a supermozaulus, a supercomputer on wheels. In it, everything is thought out to the smallest detail and the air in control is quite simply easy to touch, from installing a handbrake to the winter mode. No athletics! True, we must admit that our Russian winter with minus 25 overboard may well be a test for the same battery when we have to include the very forgotten athletics. And this is the whole paradox of technological progress, which, with constant improvement and visible facilitating management of a modern car, always remains that which is not amenable to control. And you have to remember that even spaceships have their small weaknesses.
Boris Kutz,
head of the distribution department
In the midst of snowfalls, we were given Jaguar XJ. I still did not know that I had to drive. There were enough reviews of two colleagues to feel trembling and antipathy for this car: 510 horses with a drive to the rear wheels in combination with all -season rubber made control quite problematic. With a smooth touch from the place of slipping, when braking a protracted crunch of ABS. One day (the strongest snowfall, traffic jams 10 points), this handsome man was simply thrown by the subway no one wanted to take risks. Well, I got this gift from Friday to Monday. Having weighed all the pros and cons, he gathered his spirit and went home to Suzuki Splash. And he did not regret at all: 8-point traffic jams and the lack of parking spaces in the yard did not coincide with the character of XJ. True, at that time I was still familiar with his character.
But on Saturday, when the snowfall ended, and the roads were already cleaned so that it happened that there was no time for a close acquaintance, and the wisdom of management had to be comprehended on the go. And the move is naturally cat! The car is very comfortable. Good for the driver and passengers. I am a little familiar with representative Audi, BMW and Infiniti, but I do not like them. They can’t afford them, and I’m not going to minimize in front of someone. But Jaguar conquered me. I have not met such chic and comfort before. Even the eldest daughter was not too lazy to get up on Sunday early only for a trip with me. And then we went to visit and love him all! The little son simply squeaked with delight from the abundance of different buttons and regulators from behind. Well, let it be that I managed to stalk right in the yard in dense snow. Well, okay, that at 100 km Jaguar I eaten gasoline for 1000 rubles. But how many impressions of the quality of materials, smoothness and powerful accelerations! And at a modest speed, the road conditions were clearly not the same. But as soon as the gas pedal was a little stronger, the XJ was awakened and torn to rush forward with a crazy acceleration under the bass roar.
My diagnosis: Jaguar xj is a real premium representative car. Without exaggeration.
Anton Shiryaev,
editor-browser editor
The XJ and I are associated with a strange relationship. We met many times, but each time the conditions were completely unsuitable for meeting two gentlemen. First, we fought with the owners of Jaguar and other journalists in fascinating challenge on the roads of Moscow. We drove quickly and sharply, which is why marine illness began in my back seat. Then our paths were seized on the magnificent highway of Algarve in Portugal, where XJ Supersports showed himself a real fighter, not afraid of comparison with the XKR-S compartment, on which I drove along the same highway a little earlier. Then they drove me 200 km in the Finnish Arctic, after which I had a chance to squeeze on bare ice. And now, finally, we happened to meet in normal conditions in Moscow. However, snowfall and unsolved tires quickly turned normal conditions into force majeure, so the XJ failed to enjoy completely here. But one very important thing for all these trips I realized: he has a soul. And this noble soul begins to ennoble you. After several days spent with XJ, I wanted to learn ballroom dancing, re -read my beloved Dostoevsky or listen to the no less beloved opera Evgeny Onegin. Vladimir Pozner, Svetlana Bondarchuk and Alena Doletskaya, but the crooks and thieves are held in high esteem, drive completely different cars. Who are you closer to?
Svetlana Bibichkova,
23 years old, PR manager
There are many beautiful expensive cars, but almost always you have to choose: either beauty or practicality. Or a feast, or in the world. Maybe it will not be the case with the XJ? The elegant forms of this pussy and the aristocratically sounding name of the brand have always attracted my attention. You open the door and, in the wealth of the interior of Jaguar, is not only in no way inferior to the well-known S-class to me, but even surpasses it! I can’t note the most beautiful silhouette of Yaguar on a wide wooden back door panel. It is fascinating! Individuality to the machine also gives the option to apply the initials/name of the owner on the front panel near the windshield. Such a service was previously famous for only one famous brand of bags and accessories. Now the machine can be in the full sense a continuation of your style.
We go to the minuses. The speedometers that enchantingly shining with different colors concern the slightest failure in electronics and you will no longer see speed, revolutions, or gasoline levels. Despite the fact that the owners of the jaguars (who are drawn to call cat -breeders) are often regulars of the service, this fact cannot but bother. In the Jaguar movement, sometimes you stop understanding: the gas pedal is too soft very easily not to calculate the pressure, and the car begins to throw from side to side. The double image on the screen is great, but the glare interferes with watching.
Massage chairs, a large area of \u200b\u200bthe legs, the smoothness of the course, be I a boss moving around the city with the driver, would choose precisely XJ. For traffic jams, this car is perfect, besides, it indicates the good taste of the owner. And in the feast and the world is about him. It turns out that exceptions to the rules nevertheless happen.
Svetlana Bondarchuk,
hello editor -in -chief
My acquaintance with Jaguar happened 5 years ago. Before meeting my former cars have always been jeeps: large, safe, comfortable. The choice of jaguar was really a serious step for me. As it turned out, true. Each of us has its own definition of beauty, aesthetics, purity and sympathy. For me, Jaguar is a classic English car. A subtle combination of traditions, violent cat disposition and a special mood. Each time, regardless of the status of a passenger or driver. The British have a respect for the brand DNA, therefore, when you get into the car, you understand that it is different, that the blood of true aristocrats flows in his veins.
For the city, there can be no car better than Jaguar xj, in winter, I prefer my Range Rover outside the city. Frankly, I seriously fell in love with jaguars. Recently I saw a new XKR-S bright blue color. It's just fantastic. Color simply conquered me. I even went to the site about him, looked at the brochure. Dream!
Alena Doletskaya,
interview editor -in -chief
My love for Jaguar is long and almost childish. The old one, like a cigar, who drove up to the British Embassy in Moscow, when I went with my father at the receptions to the ambassador, was for me the embodiment of perfect splendor.
And so the case went through life on the jaguars of friends who allowed to ride. And now my jaguar is such a member of the family. He matured, but holds his hand on the pulse of fashion and slowly in the wake of technological progress speaks to me when I park the backwards, warns about everything around us on the highway, rejoices when two happy dogs Rei Ray and Charles were attached in the back seat (everyone has it. Favorite side and favorite window) and always emphasizes my love of white.
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