View all Jaguar XF Reviews Month 12 running a Jaguar XF – final thoughts as the Jaguar leaves the CAR fleet I didn’t design this car to save the company,’ Jaguar designer Ian Callum told CAR in October 2007. ‘But if it works, it will,’ we added. At that moment Jaguar was in trouble, and for sale. Investment firms were circling, …
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In search of Jaguar’s soul with our new F-Pace long-termer
View all Jaguar F-Pace Reviews ► Jaguar’s refreshed F-Pace SUV joins our fleet► Ben Oliver is your guide to life with one► What makes it different to other SUVs? My idea of how much a car ought to cost seems to be stuck back in the early noughties. In my head, a mid-spec Ford Focus 1.6 is still about 14 …
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View all Jaguar XF Reviews Long-term test update – 05 October 2009 So the XF has gone back to Jaguar. Sob, sniff. It’s been a great companion over the past eight months and a reminder that our relationship with cars definitely shifts over an extended test. Jump in for a quick road test and you appraise merely the surface dynamics; to dig …
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View all Jaguar F-Type Reviews ► CAR lives with a P450 F-Type► Editor Ben Miller is reporting► How does the detuned V8 fit in? What a difference a year makes. January 2020 I was in Portugal, on the launch of the new F-Type, driving sensational and largely deserted mountain roads in a P300 Coupe and thinking, ‘Gosh, wouldn’t an F-Type …
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View all Jaguar XJ Reviews Goodbye to our Jaguar XJ 3.0D – 15 November 2011 The brave new XJ has stolen the hearts and wallets of Britain’s luxury car buyers, becoming the UK’s number one luxury saloon. But after six months on the CAR long-term fleet last year, did it steal ours? We actually ran two XJs – a long wheelbase 503bhp …
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