The Jaguar XFR-S – Jaguar’s most powerful saloon car to date – has leaked out ahead of its debut tonight at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
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We’re hoping that Jaguar has managed to bestow extra power on the very appealing XFR without wrecking the stuff that makes Jaguar saloons so appealing – the dynamic/ride balance – which, if they have, will make the XFR-S a more appealing bonkers sports saloon than the German offerings.
The promise is all there with a new butch front end, a more aggressive body kit, chunks of carbon fibre, a huge rear wing for extra downforce, a new diffuser at the back, stiffer springs, a new rear subframe with stiffer bushes, a tweaked active diff and a tweak of the stability control for more fun. Inside, there’s aluminium trim and piped leather seats and some XFR-S logos. Which all sounds very promising.
But under the skin is what matters most. That means the supercharged V8 from the XKR-S with 550 horses going through the eight-speed ZF ‘box to the back wheels and promising 0-60mph in 4.4 seconds and a top speed of 186mph. Economy – at least official economy figures – stay the same as the regular Jaguar XFR.
We’ll have more photos and more detail when the Jaguar XFR-S gets its official debut this evening.
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