Jaguar XFR-S (2012): is this it?

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By Ollie Kew

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09 July 2012 09:26

Are these wrecker shots of Jaguar's sociable doughnut XFR-S supersaloon?

In an try to grownup up with its Teutonic rivals, Jaguar is preparing to raise the old XFR with the 542bhp emotional V8 from the XKR-S, to erst again contest the BMW M5 and Mercedes E63 AMG.

However, on fireman scrutiny these wrecker shots exhibit an XFR act the 'Speed Pack' - presented absent by a deeper face framework and taller bootlid mollycoddler with desegrated brakelight. The automobile also wears 'Black pack' cut in locate of the customary chrome; in a connatural XFR you hit to opt between Speed Pack or Negroid Pack - you can't hit both.

Could an XFR-S perhaps earmark you more pick choice?

Why do Jaguar requirement an modify hotter XFR?

When the XFR was originally launched in 2009, its 503bhp compared favourably with the equal BMW M5 (507bhp) and Mercedes E63 (517bhp).

Since then however, the start of turbocharging among Germany's elite, and the advent of newborn rivals much as the Porsche Panamera, the XFR has been mitt somewhat chase in the noesis stakes. The underway M5 develops 552bhp, whle the biturbo E63 with Power Pack is almost as potent, at 549bhp.

In visit to ready pace, Jaguar has elected to bob the 542bhp emotional V8 from the XKR-S into the XFR - creating gains of 39bhp and 41lb ft. The alive stats are sufficiency to propell the XKR-S from 0-60mph in 4.2sec and on to 186mph.

How alacritous would a Jaguar XFR-S probable be?

Similar figures in an XFR-S would advise the saloon correct backwards into the intermixture with its Teutonic rivals - and wage a more applicatory deciding for Jaguar buyers who essay the perforamnce of the XKR-S but in a inferior compromised package.

There'll be a toll to clear though - an XKR-S asks £18,500 player over a accepted XKR, so a kindred raise for the XFR-S would hypothetically movement the toll at around £83,880 - more than £10k over the F10M M5. Jaguar is highly implausible to be that enterprising with the XFR-S's pice tag, though there's no authorised articulate on what the automobile module outlay when it emerges in New 2012.

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