Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel on its way to 57mpg
The new Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel has driven 816 miles through four countries on a single tank of fuel, averaging 57mpg in the process.
The much denied – but always going to happen – Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel finally arrived officially at the New York Motor Show in April.
And actually, Michael-extracting apart, the arrival of the 2.2 Diesel XF is a sure sign that Jaguar has its swagger back. Because if they were still afraid – as they were for a very long time – that a cheaper, smaller-engined XF would undermine the premium status the XF had earned since its arrival, they’d have continued to make excuses for its absence from the XF range.
The fact that Jaguar now feel able to take on the 5-Series (and the E Class and A6) in the fleet market, and the frugally-minded private sector, with the smaller-engined XF shows how far they’ve come since Tata took a lacklustre Jaguar off Ford’s hands.
But it’s no good churning out a frugal version of a crackingly good car unless you can get some headlines to shove it under people’s noses, which explains the headline which, as you’ve no doubt worked out, revolves around a feat of frugality and the new XF 2.2 Diesel.
Independent tester David Madgwick who, if memory serves us right, has a habit of hyper-mileing cars, took off from Castle Bromwich accompanied by, we’re guessing, his son Alexander Madgwick, to drive the 816 miles to Munich.
The route took in a full mix of winding country roads, motorways and dense urban traffic and the entire journey saw an average of 57mpg. Which is very hard to argue with for a proper-sized, comfortable, well-equipped car. But we’re not surprised.
We’re not surprised because when we had the Jaguar XJ in for long-term test last year we got some truly silly mpg figures too.
Keeping in mind that the default setting of everyone who drives anything we have in on test is to seek performance, not frugality, it’s worth noting we averaged over 40mpg out of the 3.0 diesel XJ on almost any run we did out of town, and an amazing 49mpg on one particular run up a dual carriageway at just under the national speed limit because of heavy traffic.
So unlike many of these hyper-mileing claims that crop up whenever a new ‘Frugal’ version of a car appears, we find this particular claim for the 2.2 XF diesel to be entirely believable, and achievable in the real world.
In fact, we’re slightly surprised the figure wasn’t better.
Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel Economy Run Photo Gallery
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Tramp12 says
£12,000 less for the XF 2.2 diesel than the XF diesel with the more powerful engine? That seems a bit of a bargain. It’s the same car with most of the same toys and a better gearbox. What’s not to want?
For my money the 2.2 diesel is the best buy. On the other hand, if I were lucky enough to be able to spend someone else’s money…
Percy says
How much cheaper is the 2.2 than the 3.0 litre? There’s good reasons as a company car, but any private buyer would surely be better with the more powerful 3.0?
CarsUK says
The 2.2 diesel Jag is exactly £6k less than the 240bhp version of the 3.0 litre diesel, and a whopping £12k less than the 275bhp XF. We know which we’d pick, but at the price the 2.2 diesel XF is pitched very well.