After five months – and a great deal of driving pleasure – our long-term Jaguar XJ goes back to Jaguar having not missed a beat. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? It seems only five minutes since we wrote that our long-term Jaguar XJ would be here until ‘… the leaves are coming back [...]
Jaguar comes out top of the heap as a J.D. Power Customer Service Champion in the US, thanks to ‘Jaguar Platinum Coverage’. Isn’t it time we had it in the UK? The renaissance of Jaguar has gathered pace in the last year or two, with their entire range now renewed. The Jaguar XF started the rebirth and the [...]
Jaguar’s Adrian Hallmark has revealed that Jaguar are planning a pillarless coupe version of the XJ after all – The Jaguar XJ Coupe. For many of you – especially as it’s been heavily read today – our report this morning on the New Small Jaguar may be the first time you’ve come across Adrian Hallmark. [...]
January update on our long term Jaguar XJ. A month of snow and ice and rotten roads – but the XJ hasn’t missed a beat. Snow. Lots of it. That will be the abiding memory of last month with our long term Jaguar XJ. Just like every other RWD saloon car, the Jaguar XJ isn’t [...]
Our long term Jaguar XJ has now been with us more than a month, so time to see how it’s fared and have a look at the latest software added to the XJ for 2011. It’s hard to believe it, but our long-term Jaguar XJ has been with us more than a month. And in [...]
Jaguar send us a Jaguar XJ 3.0 TDV6 SWB Portfolio to play with for a month or four. What’s the new big Jag going to be like as an everyday car? We moaned about the tease that was the introduction to the new Jaguar XJ, but we dutifully went off to the press launch at the Saatchi [...]
Jaguar is launching an armoured version of the new XJ – the Jaguar XJ Sentinel – at the Moscow Motor Show this month. Sentinel: One who keeps guard. An appropriate name for an armoured Jaguar XJ, although it reminds me of junk mail plopping on the mat from a company desperate to offer me protection for my credit [...]
Gallery of Photos of the new Jaguar XJ 3.0 Litre Diesel SWB Portfolio (2010). We recently enjoyed a week with the new Jaguar XJ, in this case a beautiful 3.0 litre diesel Portfolio )top of the model tree) finished in black with great tan leather, or to put it in Jaguar-Speak, Ultimate Black with London [...]
I have to confess we had a couple of glitches with our XJ. We pushed Jaguar in to giving us an XJ for a week as soon as they could. So we ended up with a very early car which had been run around by more hacks and celebs than you can shake a stick [...]
The Jaguar XJ was a very good car under the skin long before it became the new XJ. And thanks to that advanced aluminium construction the new XJ feels like a mid-sized sports saloon to drive, not a bloated, oversized executive barge with pretensions of offering ‘The Drive’. It’s the real thing. Jaguar has decided [...]
Jaguar’s move in to the 21st century – certainly in design terms – started two years ago with the XF. Out went the pastiche of the past that was the S Type and in came the modern cool of the XF, with its very contemporary take on Jaguar’s style. But the XJ; that’s a very [...]
Jaguar has revealed that in its first full month in showrooms the new Jaguar XJ has outsold the Mercedes S Class by 38% and the BMW 7 Series by 70%. It’s taken a while; that’s for sure. We expected to see the new Jaguar XJ in showrooms before the end of 2009. Except for the [...]
Broadcaster and journalist Richard Madeley is one of the first to take delivery of a new Jaguar XJ – in his case the 3.0 litre diesel Portfolio. These are his first impressions. Regular readers will remember that Richard Madeley took a Jaguar XK Convertible for a blat down to Cornwall and back last year to give us his feedback. If you [...]
Jaguar are making sure the lucrative chauffeur market takes to the new Jaguar XJ with the Jaguar Chauffeur Programme. It’s a big market for high end cars. The Chauffeur market, that is. And in the new XJ Jaguar has built a car that’s pitched perfectly at that lucrative market, especially with the LWB 3.0 litre [...]
Cars UK has been told that Jaguar are planning a diesel Supesport XJ next year, with the new 4.4 litre TDV8 delivering 375bhp and over 600lb/ft torque. We’ve known for quite a while that Jaguar Land Rover were going to start putting a new V8 diesel in to their cars. The 3.6 litre TDV8 which [...]
Jaguar have missed out on some stunning PR for the new Jaguar XJ by failing to get the XJ in Government hands in time for the election. Yes, I know we’re supposed to be on the pulse of everything that’s going on in the world of cars. And honestly, we usually are. But these last [...]
Jaguar is to offer Jaguar Platinum Coverage in the US giving buyers 5 years free servicing. There are no plans to launch in the UK. Re-defining buyers perceptions of a car brand is an incredibly difficult task. The best way should be to make the very best product possible and sell it at a price [...]
Jaguar have produced a new promo video for the new XJ, moodily shot in wet weather in Paris. A solace or an irritation for customers waiting to take delivery? Lucy Jordan lamented that she’d ‘Never ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair’. But if she ever had (apart [...]
Jaguar has delayed the release of the new XJ (2010/2011) to customers until the first week of May to resolve issues with phone connectivity When we ran a seemingly endless raft of stories around the initial reveal of the new Jaguar XJ back in July last year we told you that Jaguar were aiming to have the [...]
EurotaxGlass’s – publishers of Glass’s Guide – have revealed the residual values set for the new Jaguar XJ are better than those of the equivalent Mercedes or Audi. The new Jaguar XJ is getting very close to hitting customers’ driveways and the road. The first customer cars – and press cars, for that matter – are much [...]
Jaguar has updated the prices for the new Jaguar XJ, including prices for the Supersports model The interweb seems to be full of car sites telling us how much new 2010 Jaguar XJ is going to cost when it hits customers driveways and garages on 1st March. But quite honestly it’s hardly news. Apart perhaps from [...]
Are Jaguar planning on building a range-topping, barn-storming XJR / XJ Supersport R version of the new 2010 / 2011 XJ? Maybe. But only maybe. But it does make sense. After all, the other models in the Jaguar range – the XF and the XK – both sport an ‘R’ model, so why wouldn’t the [...]
Rapper Jay-Z has featured the new Jaguar XJ in a video for a track from his latest album. We’ve all seen Rap videos. Some things are constant and required: the ‘Hoes’; the ‘Bling’ and the ‘Cars’. The more exotic the better. Which is why – as well as the bling and the birds – you will always [...]
Piers Morgan is promoting the competition we reported on a few weeks ago to win the first new Jaguar XJ off the production line, the proceeds of which will go to the NSPCC. A couple of weeks ago we reported that Jaguar are running a competition to win the very first new XJ to come [...]
German tuner Arden has revealed details of a modified 2010 Jaguar XJ – the Arden AJ22 – with body kit, revised suspension and different wheels. The new Jaguar XJ was launched in July and we covered it in detail. We did an XJ Review covering every bit of detail we had. All that’s left is [...]
