2011 Jaguar XKR

2011 Jaguar XKR
2011 Jaguar XKR

The New Jaguar XJ

Jaguar launched Jaguar XJ last night the new admiral ship during an event presented by Jay Leno.

New Jaguar XJ

The communication leaders wanted to emphasize that the XJ Jaguar will set new standards in the luxury, a model in which the British automaker puts great hopes. The new model is impressive at first sight and if the outside part view reminds us of XF models, the back view comes with a completely original style for the British automaker.

The aluminum body helps the car to be lighter by about 331 pounds compared to its main competitors, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are those that have benefited from this advantage. Low weight and together with over 50% of recyclable materials help the economy of 6614 pounds of CO2 for each vehicle.

The technical part comes with Jaguar Adaptive Dynamics and an air suspension system, Active Differential Control and a range of engines consisting of a V6 3.0-liter diesel engine, a V8 engine with 385 HP, and two versions of its supercharged engine of 470 HP and 510 HP. The transmission is ensured by an automatic six-speed ZF gearbox.

New Jaguar XJ

Salesman Tony Martin has been selling prestige cars for the best part of a quarter of a century, writes motoring editor Peter Carroll.

“Porsches, Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Aston Martins – I’ve sold them all in my time,” he says.

“But I have never been as excited about a new car as I am about this one…”

Tony, senior sales executive at Stratstone’s dealership in Wolverhampton, is talking about the impending arrival of the new Jaguar XJ.

In a few weeks’ time this car will take its place as the new flagship of the Big Cat brand – and Tony and his colleagues cannot wait to start selling it.

With prices starting at around £53,000, Stratstone staff have already taken a dozen orders from customers who have yet to drive the vehicle.

Jaguar XJ Electric in 2011

With deliveries for the new 2010 Jaguar XJ set to start shortly, prices for the new luxo-cat have been released. They start at $72,500 (including destination) for the base normally aspirated 5.0-liter XJ and go up from there.

In the realm of luxury barges, a “basic” car can hardly be considered basic. But what Jaguar calls a base XJ undercuts all of its competition. Audi’s (current) A8 starts roughly $2000 higher and is the closest in price to the Jag. BMW’s short wheelbase V-8 powered 750i starts at $83,000 (including destination) and Mercedes-Benz doesn’t even offer a short wheel-base S-Class in the States. A similarly powered long-wheelbase S-Class will set you back just over $92,000.


Although the new XJ is priced significantly less than most of its competition, it includes all of the amenities usually found on über-sedans. The standard XJ comes with 16-way power heated and cooled front seats, dual-zone climate control, a 600-watt premium sound system, navigation, an adaptive suspension, and even a panoramic glass roof. And of course the interior simply oozes British luxury.

Electric Jaguar XJ has been created, gets a 600 mile range

In April of 2009 last year, the European Investment Bank gave Jaguar/Land Rover $453 million USD to increase funding for a range of fuel-efficient vehicles that will help cut the brands’ overall emissions by 25 percent by 2012. At that time it was reported that Jaguar is planning a range-extended version of the new XJ sedan.

2011 Jaguar XJ Spy Shots Revealed

Jaguar XJ Concept

Spy shots and concept photos published in British publication Car (which I came across via Autopia) reveal a Jaguar XJ that has been redesigned to ensure that Jaguar ultimately meets the same fate as Volvo: obscurity and unpopularity. Abandoning the traditional makeup WHICH MADE THEM LEGENDARY – ahem, excuse me – Jaguar’s design chief Ian Callum appears to have engineered yet another interchangeably-styled luxury sedan. 2011 XJ test mules that were spotted on the test track were heavily disguised under the body work of the current model XJ saloon’s, but I’m not fooled. According to sources, the Jaguar XJ’s new design direction is a heavy crossbreeding of the Aston Martin Rapide and the Bentley Continental GT, which several auto enthusaists have heralded as a much-needed revision of the Jaguar XJ’s “outdated style.”

Sigh.

Ok. Let me break this down for you: when Ford bought Volvo in 1999 they performed the same kind of overhaul, abandoning the “turbo brick” styling. The result was a retooled Volvo that looked like little more than a high-end Ford Taurus. Now, thanks to that brilliant maneuver, Volvo’s popularity as a brand has been “put in the back on the discount rack, like another can of beans,” (to quote Billy Joel). The only motorists that are still enthusiastic about Volvo are the loyjala fanatiker like myself who remain true to the original Volvo line, manufactured from 1927 to 1999. As a matter of fact, if you ever crack open the pages of Rolling Magazine (the official publication of the Volvo Club Of America), you’ll notice a distinct lack of anything influenced by Ford.

2011 Jaguar XF Spy Photos

Like Volvo, Jaguar’s design isn’t merely an odd, “outdated” aesthetic, it’s a tradition-rich design upon which Jaguar’s legacy has been built. If it’s drastically altered to resemble yet another Bentley look-alike, you will effectively destroy the only traditional thread the Jaguar XJ had left to cling to. Granted, the entire Jaguar line has suffered a fall from popularity, but tampering with its only remaining prize-winning formula isn’t going to change that. I say to Jaguar: leave the XJ alone and focus instead on fine-tuning the two models that are already trying to embolden the mix, the Jaguar XK and the XF. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself sitting next to Volvo on the discount shelf. I hope you like beans.

2010 Jaguar XJ Pictures

2010 Jaguar XJ Sport Car

2010 Jaguar XJ Wallpaper

2010 Jaguar XJ Interior

2010 Jaguar XJ

2010 Jaguar XJ Picture