Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake OFFICIALLY revealed. Price from £82,495

The Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake – with its 542bhp supercharged V8 – has been officially revealed by Jaguar ahead of a Geneva Motor Show debut next month.

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The new Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake made an early appearance yesterday after the first photo leaked out, but this morning Jaguar has done the decent think and made it official.

The XFR-S Sportbrake is a car we all hoped Jaguar would put at the top of their Sportbrake range, but it will have taken two full years since the debut of the XF Sportbrake to add a model with the supercharged V8.

But rather than making a straightforward XFR Sportbrake, Jaguar has gone the whole hog – just as it did with the F-Type R Coupe – and skipped the 504bhp version of the Supercharged V8 and jumped straight to the full-fat XFR-S with 542bhp.

That means performance of 0-62mph in 4.8 seconds (0.2s down on the XFR-S saloon) and a top speed limited to 186mph. It also means official economy of 22mpg and emissions f 297g/km, but if you ever get better than 17mpg you’re not driving the XFR-S as it should be driven.

Under the skin the XFR-S Sportbrake is pretty much the XFR-S but with a retuned chassis, aerodynamic tweaks, a set of 20″ Varuna alloys and an interior that gets carbon leather and contrasting highlight micro-piping and stitching.

The Jaguar XFR-S Sportbarke will debut at the Geneva Motor Show next week as part of the Jaguar XF 2015 range and go on sale on 1st April 2014. It will cost from £82,495.