Jaguar’s design studio director, Wayne Burgess, has confirmed that Jaguar are to extend their performance range of cars with more ‘R-S’ and R-S GT’ models.
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Not only that, but Jaguar has also replaced the XJ Supersport with a more focused XJR that offers proper dynamics and a more clearly defined appeal than the Supercpsort. All opf which points to Jaguar’s plans to offer cars in their range that have true performance credentials to take on the might of BMW’s M Division and Mercedes AMG.
That has been made even clearer by Jaguar’s Wayne Burgess who has told Edmunds that Jaguar will be pushing the envelope further and deeper across the Jaguar range with more R-S models in the planning as well as More R-S GT models too.
So you can probably look forward to an XFR-S GT at some point, although whether Jaguar will want to take the new XJR the same route is debatable. But it’s something Mercedes manage with the S63 and S65, although BMW don’t bother with extreme performance versions of the 7 Series.
But the most obvious route for the R-S and R-S GT cars is with the new Jaguar F-Type, which will inevitably spawn an ‘R’ version at some point and could easily have an F-Type R GT created at some point. That would make the F-Type R impressively quick and maybe give Jaguar the opportunity to build a lighter F-Type in the R GT.
It looks like Jaguar’s claws are being properly sharpened.
Dteamer says
Ugly and over the top and not what a Jaguar should be. But it looks great!!