![]() ![]() ![]() During our test, we drove many hours down highways and relatively uninteresting country roads, and found the XF’s dynamics to be spot-on for these sort of tasks. ![]() The XFR isn’t exactly world’s better in this regard, either.īut if you look at the XF Supercharged as more of a grand tourer, it all starts to make sense. We first noticed this problem on the base XF, and it doesn’t seem to have been tweaked for the supercharged car. The steering is rather light, though somewhat pleasant and involving to use, but as a canyon-carver, the XF’s chassis doesn’t inspire much in the way of confidence. But in a rather curious feat of engineering, there’s a bit of body roll and overall waftiness through the turns. In a straight line over long stretches of hilly backroads, the suspension is firm with good damping and stability, without ever feeling floaty or disconnected. Still, flooring the go-pedal from a stop will net you a run to 60 miles per hour in just 4.9 seconds, which isn’t at all sluggish, especially since the XFR is only two-tenths of a second faster.Īs a sport sedan, the XF Supercharged is hit or miss. Adding the supercharger boosts the output to 470 horsepower and 424 pound-feet of torque-losses of 40 and 37 compared to the XFR, respectively. Like the R, the XF Supercharged starts with Jaguar’s new direct-injected, 5.0-liter V-8, which even in its base form is a pretty potent and sweet-sounding engine. Appropriately (though somewhat underwhelmingly) dubbed the XF Supercharged, this middle-child XF offers super-sedan thrills of a different sort for a discount of $12,000 versus the XFR. But before your dreams of Jaguar driving are completely dashed, consider this-the R-badged XF isn’t the only model to benefit from supercharged power. If you’re like us, the Jaguar XFR definitely makes your mouth water, but you know that shelling out around $80,000 for a sport sedan is better spent on a BMW M5, what with its screaming V-10 and proper manual gearbox (or nifty seven-speed DCT). ![]()
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