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Jaguar XJ. Pressent. Perfect

Jaguar XJ. Price: from 3 555 000 rub. On sale: from 04.2010

Dont Dream it, drive it. The Jaguar advertising slogan has never been so close to the truth. The new flagship XJ was born for drive, paradoxically it sounds in relation to the representative of the representative class. However, just dreaming of him is also not forbidden

Test - pilot
Dmitry Tytyuchenko, 34 years old, automobile journalist, driving experience of 15 years, personal car - Jeep Wrangler

The new Jaguar XJ fills with a piquant acute all feelings without exception. Bright colors from the palette of primary sensations genetically accessible to a person are mixed in a single emotional bapto. Sophistication, expressiveness and style here are elevated to an excellent degree. Excellent primarily over competitors, which from generation to generation relate to classical, moment recognition, allowing at first glance to determine their affiliation.

The flagship of the original British brand spectacularly puts an end to the classic Jaguar era. Each body line, each design element is shrouded in a halo dazzling for the brand of novelty, through and through the piercing model image. Original, memorable, but poorly recognizable. With other representatives of the Koshachy X-Jaja family, only a massive grille of the radiator, which refers in 1968, is related to the first generation of the model, and, in fact, the emblem. All! In addition, XJ traces the French, Germans and other Japanese features: the boundaries of glazing, tilting racks, and the shape of the optics. However, the design is visually perceived so organically that all non -original solutions without a trace dissolve in a stylish, emotional and dynamic appearance.

The luxurious salon impresses immediately and unconditionally. Consistent aesthetics in the interior of the new XJ preferred the ergonomicity and beauty of modern forms. It turned out to be envious. Firstly, nobility and aristocracy pour over the edge, possessing pheromone-like attractiveness. Great decoration materials do not so much decorate the machine as they fill the atmosphere of exclusivity. By the way, the heavy smell of the Kingdom of Skin and Alcantara, which is literally felt literally with fingertips, is quite tangible and smell, even through the ajar door.

And secondly, the car is incredibly pleasant to drive! Everything, starting with the configuration of the chair and ending with the most secondary button, is devoted to you. You are the main one here, and not at all a person from the back sofa. And it is to your attention that is easily accessible mentally and physically the variety of functions and adjustments. The seat, the steering wheel to what banality, even if the instrument shield in Jaguar XJ can be organized at your discretion. Computer dials come to life on the LCD screen. A pair of clicks on the keys and now in a circle to the left of the speedometer appears navigation, and on the right a stepped information menu. Or, for example, a sensory display with a double image function on the central console: I slightly conjured with the settings and choose a further route on the map while the neighbor looks at the DVD. And massage, and the ventilation of the seats, and the 1200-watt stereo system! And there are still many such a lot of such an accessible from behind, only in a passive-optical form. Therefore, one of the few blessings, equally inhabited by all sitting in the cabin, will be silence.

The delightful, soothing silence of the surrounding reality. Rustle rustle, howling winds and the sound of the engine working at a calm pace remain outside the body. Only a velvety, tuned roar of a 5.0 -lifre 510 -horsepower gasoline turbo engine version of Supersport is persistently torn. Yes, and then with active acceleration. The climax of the music of the drive occurs at 2500 min-1, when the cumulative effect is clearly manifested. From this moment and up to 5500 min-1, its maximum at 625 nm reaches a torque, taking the car to the coveted hundred in 4.9 seconds. Gas! The arrow of the tachometer as a stung takes off to the red zone, plumping emotions and awakening the driver's ambitions. Even who did not have them. The explosive temperament XJ is fully controlled. The sedan accelerates evenly and assertively, unexpectedly light, but a sensitive and informative steering wheel does not break out of the hands, and the machine, as if nothing had happened, muffled all six steps. And this is in a comfortable Drive mode. When the sports Dynamic is turned on, the devices light up with red devilish fire, the sensitivity of the accelerator increases, and a pleasant soft suspension is clamped. The driversky fuse of the diesel X-Dzheya, equipped with a 275-horsepower engine with double turbocharged (600 Nm), weaker. But only in direct comparison with Supersport. On the other hand, what is one and a half second handicap in acceleration of up to 100 km/h, when it comes to a price difference of 2.06 million rubles?! Moreover, such a version is no less easily instilled in the taste of active driving. The rear -wheel drive Jaguar XJ willingly breaks into the skid, but the stabilization system will implement instantly, aligning the machine on the trajectory. ESP can be completely turned off by holding the key pressed 10 seconds. There is time to compare your skills and characteristics of the car and reflect on the rationality of the act.


Experimental Jaguar
The luxurious Jaguar XJ sedan debuted in 1968, becoming the last creation of the founding father of the brand Sir William Lyons. Etymologically, the name of the model comes from the abbreviated code name of the project to develop an Experimental Jaguar car. At least according to legend. The flagship was equipped with gasoline engines with a volume of 2.8 and 4.2 liters, an independent suspension of all wheels, had a leather shelling of the cabin, and as additional equipment offered a power steering, air conditioning and an automatic gearbox. Prices started with impressive at that time 1797. The excellent stability and handling of Jaguar XJ, as well as the low level of noise in the cabin, noted all the leading automobile publications of those years.

We do not love
The wheelbase of the car in the usual version is 3032 mm, in an elongated 3157 mm. The difference in price is also very, very noticeable at least 150 thousand rubles. Valnoye

The rear lights became LED, evolving into vertically elongated triangles. True, that this is precisely evolution can be judged only by putting a new and previous generation of cars nearby. Bright

Pressing a key with a checkered flag noticeably changes the settings and behavior of the car. The car reacts more acutely to the pressing of the accelerator, and the suspension becomes more collected. Class!
 

Driving
The car may well become a new guideline in the field of dynamics and handling in the representative class.

Salon
Leather, Alcantara, Carbon, a tree combination of expensive materials and ergonomic solutions makes the honor of the interior.

Comfort
The owner of the XJ will feel at the point and in the back seat, and in the place of the driver.

Safety
The car is ready to secure its owner as much as possible.

Price
Quite in the spirit of rivals.


Advantages and disadvantages
+ Magnificent design, spacious, comfortable and expensive interior, excellent ergonomics, cool dynamics and handling
- too easy a steering wheel requireing addiction


Specifications
Mark and model - Jaguar XJ Supersport
Dimensions - 5122x1894x1448 mm
The engine is gasoline, 5000 cm3, 510 liters. S./60006500
Transmission - automatic, 6 -speed
Dynamics - Max 250 km/h; 4.9 C to 100 km/h
Competitors-BMW 7th series, Audi A8, Mercedes-Benz S-Class.


Our opinion
The representative XJ changed not only appearance, but also priorities. The car, originally focused on the passenger, now virtuoso performs the whim of an active driver. In the era of erasing stereotypes and Renaissance, such a step is justified to the brand. The new model perfectly meets the requirements of the New Age: the present perfect time Jaguar.


Author: Dmitry Tytyuchenko


 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [May 2010]