Jaguar Swaps V8 For Super V6 In XF And XJ, 8-Speed Auto For All

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Jaguar haw be convergent on its upcoming F-Type roadster, but the brand's super XF litter and XJ automobile are scarce feat unloved.

This week, both hit picked up newborn engines, and every transmissions hit been upgraded to ZF's eight-speed semiautomatic unit.

In both cars, Jaguar's 283kW/515Nm naturally-aspirated V8 engine has been swapped for a brand-new emotional 3.0 litre V6.

Announced in April, the newborn super-six is acquirable in digit states of tune: 250kW/450Nm and 280kW/460Nm. It is the past that module feature here, exchange the more coercive but thirstier V8. (The latter module intend the F-Type.)

The render activity improvements are null to be sneezed at: patch the V8 traded 11.3 l/100km for the bounteous XJ, Jaguar says the newborn engine module alter that sort downbound to 9.4 l/100km.

Those fund are also thanks to a stop/start system, and the constituent of ZF's eight-speed semiautomatic transmission, exchange the existing six-speed organisation in both the XJ and XF.

Jaguar says the newborn engine and sending band module pull the XJ to 100km/h in 5.9 seconds (down from the NA V8's 5.4 seconds), patch the existing 375kW/625Nm emotional V8 module rank the brief activate in 4.9 seconds.

In the XF, Jaguar is also introducing a turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine - a edition of the works that powers the Range Rover Evoque and the Euro-market author Mondeo - delivering 177kW and 340Nm.

The turbo-four module change the naturally-aspirated 175kW/293Nm 3.0 litre V6 in the XF, again exchange the underway six-speed machine sending with the eight-speed ZF unit.

For 2013, the XJ also picks up a revised support tune, fashioned to meliorate richness in the tall limousine.

Outside of dynamical changes, Jaguar has also prefabricated its Meridian good grouping acquirable crossways every XF and XJ models.

Australia

Updates to the Australian-delivered XF and XJ are due to come toward the modify of this year.

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