Test drive Jaguar XKR-S compartment since 2011
Ventriloquist
If you believe films and books, then in any aristocratic family there will certainly be a character, whose manners and behavior will be sharply distinguished against the background of respectable relatives. A kind of noisy balagur, tapping nights on sports machines with luxurious blondes and brunettes, passing family dinners and preferring a dark gray tart suit and varnished boots a bright jacket with white pants and moccasins on the bare foot.Yaguar, the main keeper of British values, now also has such an elderberry at the air intakes, spoilers and ventilation slots, the 550-horsepower sportkup Jaguar XKR-S. The most powerful and fastest mass model in the history of the brand! After all, the XJ220 Supercar, released in an amount of less than 300 pieces, is unlikely to fall under the determination of the mass in this case.
This jaguar needs a lot of tires
If very briefly, then XKR-S is a charged version of the XKR charged compartment. With an additional low, even more rigid suspension with adaptive shock absorbers, a reconfigured stabilization system, developed aerodynamics and powerful brakes of those that go as an option for the XKR, already in the standard. Plus, forced from 510 to 550 horsepower, a five-liter V8 with a mechanical supercharger, developing a torque of 680 nm, because of which I had to make the rear wheels three centimeters wider than the front ones and rewrite the programs of the stabilization and control system of an active inter-cool differential.
1. Carcial XKR-S-an AJ-V8 compressor motor forced to 550 horsepower, developing 680 nm of torque. It was increased from 9.1: 1 to 9.5: 1 degree of compression, a new exhaust system was installed, as well as the control electronics.
2. Creek wheels of different dimensions (the rear per inch is wider than the front ones) forged, they are 4.8 kilograms easier than ordinary alloy. Brakes - with a diameter of 380 mm in front and 375 mm behind.
3. Aerodynamic body kit is not a props, it reduces the lifting force by 25 percent.
4. The front and rear springs have become fierce by 28 percent. In the front suspension, modernized, more rigid swivel aluminum fists are used.
5. The road clearance is reduced by 10 millimeters.
An angry appearance, crazy motor, 4.4 seconds of acceleration from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour and maximum speed of 300 kilometers per hour extreme? Rather shocking. Because at first glance in XKR-S there are not many sports: despite the easiest, according to British engineers, in the body class, a charged compartment still weighs a little less than 1.8 tons. There are neither old-time mechanics nor new-fangled prefellective robots on the XKR-S use of the six-speed hydromechanical automatic machine ZF.
In the cabin, the kingdom of the skin, expensive plastic and corrugated aluminum. The seats-kovshi with a dozen adjustments that can be ordered for ordinary XKR, perfectly hold the body and at the same time are unusually convenient. A normal round steering wheel with a blue stitching, a passing washer of an automatic transmission selector at the central tunnel is not the most convenient climate control unit, a familiar multimedia system with a slightly brakes of the XK series of the XK series.
And only the speedometer scale, marked up to 300 kilometers per hour, makes you recall that you were driving the very most jaguar in history.
Interior
The XKR-S salon is almost no different from the XKR version. Leather, plastic, in the case of xkr-S made under a piano varnish, corrugated aluminum. There are no carbon parts, but there is a special decoration with leather simulating carbon weaving.
Sports siden-shows with 16 adjustments, including setting up the density of the side rollers, stylish ones, perfectly hold the body and at the same time very comfortable. True, behind the legs are left very little.
Two main keys in the XKR-S: The Stabilization Boat System Boat button (immediately under the automatic transmission selector) and turn on the dynamic chassis mode. In most cases, it is enough to press only the second.
In civilian regimes, XKR-S is very flexible. It is started by a button in the cabin, loudly bargaining with four muffler pipe, and after a few seconds it gradually calms down it closes the valves pneumatic drives in the modified graduation system, causing the motor only to muffle. A machine gun selector in Drive, and a bright blue compartment touches smoothly and softly
On the go, the charged Jaguar seems surprisingly comfortable for its image of a brutal sports car. Silently passes through the bedridle and silently swallows cracks and jackets of imperfect Spanish asphalt. In the usual mode, his chassis seems quite dense, but by no means hard, and even more so not tooth -free.
0-100 in 4.4 seconds is all about him
Soft, accurate reactions to the steering wheel, slightly downshled to the gas gearbox, the gearbox quickly climbs onto the highest gear and makes the Yag roll around the city at speeds barely exceeding the idle speed
Enough! The transmission in the sport, the Dynamic Mode button with a drawn plaid flag in ON: now the reactions to the gas pedal will become noticeably acute, the racing mode is activated at the stabilization system, the suspension will be engaged and the main valves in the muffler will be completely opened. The siesta is over!
The rear tires on the XRK-S dimension 295/35 R20 by 40 millimeters are wider than the front ones.
In Dynamic mode in the character of XKR-S there is not a drop of political correctness! The right pedal is now directly headed by a pair of burners of black lanes on the asphalt that remain after each careless pressing of gas, and primitive aggression appears in the voice of Jaguar. It has neither a metal screech of Italians, nor the roar of the Americans, only the deaf, laryngeal fury of the multi -liter eight, grinded by the bustle of the compressor and spat on the asphalt through the teeth.
Each bunch of turns is a small audio performance! Hly snapping hoarsely on extensions, XKR-S subsides a little on braking, so that, after picking up more air into the lungs, again roared under a full throttle. Each acceleration event! At the start of the yag, wandering the rear axle, frantically rushes forward, and does not hesitate to be shy about his rear -wheel drive habits on serpentines. On the contrary, his business card is a crushing torque of 680 Nm, ready to erase the rear wheels in the soon even before you actually decide to do it.
Fast high-speed ligaments Favorite treat Jaguar XKR-S
In principle, you can go on XKR-S correctly, carefully dosing the craving at the exit from the turns and the buffy from how efficiently the active posterior differ, twisting the outer wheel and literally pushing the five-meter compartment into the cramped ligaments of the Spanish serpentines. You can enjoy an accurate, slightly light steering wheel and a delightful suspension, which even a launched rural road in the vicinity of Algarve cannot get out of balance. And to be surprised at the ability of Jaguar engineers to set up ZF machines in sports mode, the transmission perfectly chooses the desired gear, hangs on a limiter and will never switch on an arc.
And you can click a couple of times with a left-headed petal, causing the XKR-S once again angry in response, and press the gas a little stronger, sending the rear wheels along a more sweeping trajectory.
After a second, blue smoke will fall from under the rear wheels
XKR-S is going sideways with inspiration! In response to an excess of traction, the back axis begins to slide softly and very predictable, always remaining under full control. The skid can be compensated for by turning the steering wheel, or you can slightly let the gas, wait for the car stabilize, and press the pedal again on the floor, with one jerk, having overcome the free straight to the rolling rod of the motor.
From the unbridled fun that the XKR-S gives, blows the roof! Literally! I would like to accelerate, slow down, scare off the engines surrounding the tires and the roar of the engine, leaving behind a smoke curtain until tires or gasoline in the tank ends
And if you cut a little and think about what this yag actually is? Just an ideal fan car or a serious sporecup? Several circles on the Algarve racing track, the most crazy and three -dimensional European Autodrome, quickly arrange everything in their place.
A cabin shifted back and a long hood - a classic!
On the XKR-S racing highway, it remains phenomenally fast and very understandable, but here it is a little lacking the concentration of the Germans and the inspiration of Italians. Give me will, and this yag would happily slip through the entire 4.5-kilometer track of Algarve, but strict instructors sitting in each car are strictly prohibited by the stabilization system and even the dynamic mode is activated only on the last circle of three.
If you go thoughtfully, then the XKR-S will slightly rest at the entrance, demonstrating a slight insufficient rotation, and not so aggressively shoot at the exit of turns, where it is now and then pulled by vigilant electronics. Its settings, which seemed ideal on ordinary roads, suddenly became excessively conservative on the racing highway.
On the track, a little lack of accuracy and tenacious brakes, and the steering wheel of the correct severity, which gives the driver one hundred percent confidence in what is happening with the front wheels.
The developers say that XKR-S is able to drive nurgurgring faster than eight minutes
However, all these slightly speak only about the difference between the characters of the XKR-S and focused exclusively on the track of Sportsup. This yag is not a racing car? And okay! Because the combination of the incredible sound of the engine, the rear -wheel drive and the very understandable and interactive chassis turns this car into one of the most emotional charged compartment of our time. Loud, outrageously fast and a little bad. And this is the whole relish.
Alternative
Aston Martin V12 Vantage is a fellow countryman of our Jaguar XKR-S. It is equipped with atmospheric V12 with a capacity of only 517 horsepower and accelerates from a place of up to one hundred kilometers per hour in a usual 4.2 seconds. But the price tag is sane from 9.8 million rubles.
Mercedes-Benz SLS Modern view of a classic Mercedes with doors like a wing of a seagull. Atmospheric V8 motor on SLS develops 571 horsepower, accelerating the compartment to a hundred in 3.8 seconds. The price is from 11.5 million rubles.
You can’t do without Porsche: the 911 Turbo S all-wheel drive compartment with a 530-horsepower turbo engine and a pre-sequential robot catapults from a place of up to one hundred kilometers per hour in 3.3 seconds and costs less than 9 million rubles! The winner in the ratio of price-ski.
A couple of decibels quieter
Simultaneously with the launch of the Jaguar XKR-S, the British presented updated modifications of the coupe and convertible XK, as well as the charged XKR line.
True, the whole restyling here came down only to stylistic improvements: the appearance has changed (the headlights have been updated, the plastic of the front bumpers and the radiator grilles, the rear bumers and the wheels) changed, and the salon was slightly modernized. The interior decoration now uses better materials, and the skin has become even larger. The graphics of the dashboard and the multimedia system have elusively changed, the rear view camera has appeared.
According to the technique of changes, there is no XK is still equipped with an eight-cylinder atmospheric with a capacity of 385 horsepower, and versions XKR with a compressor V8 with a capacity of 510 horsepower. The transmission is the same six-speed automatic as on the XKR-S, but configured for more comfort: it switches unnoticed, and also perfectly guesses the desired transmission.
But even the 510-horsepower XKR convertible can not be compared with the version of S according to excitement and controllability: too soft chassis, empty steering wheel and 625 nm of torque make it be very careful in handling the gas pedal and in choosing speed in the bend. However, you can always reduce the pace, relax and roll into pleasure, enjoying the wheezing of the Yaguar compressor engine.
In Russia, the new family of XK, XKR and XKR-S will appear in January 2012. Prices have not yet been announced.
Source: Motor magazine [November 2011]
