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Car tested: 2012 Jaguar XF Diesel Sports
Price OTR Mumbai: Rs. 64,22,651/-
The luxury car segment is seeing increase in sales in-spite of the decline in overall car sales in India. Clearly more people are buying bigger cars and hence luxury car makers are offering their very best in the country. Today the luxury car scene is dominated by the German trio but all this is set to change as non-German luxury car makers enter this arena. One such company is Jaguar, which is armed with stunning looking vehicles offering stupendous performance. But does the Jaguar XF hold a candle to the Germans? This is something we find out by driving the Jaguar XF Diesel Sports.
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Tata Motors started to locally assemble the Land Rover Freelander 2 in India last year and had revealed its plans to locally assemble more vehicles from the JLR stable in the near future. The company’s next model to be locally assembled is the baby Jag, the XF. The Jaguar XF is priced higher to its competitors as it is brought in as a CBU, while the German trio locally assemble the Audi A6, BMW 5-Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Local assembly gives company a cost advantage as they have to pay lesser duties.
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Jaguar is definitely on an aggressive mode now. Very recently the Tata Motors owned company launched the Range Rover Evoque in the Indian market and now Jaguar has quietly launched the facelifted version of the XF sedan. The new XF sedan gets a redesigned nose, XJ-like slit eyes and some minor modifications to the rear end. There has also been some small changes to the interior. The British automaker has commenced bookings of the Jaguar XF facelift and will start delivering the vehicles in December, 2011. The new XF is still powered by the 3.0-liter V6 diesel engine that produces a power of 274 BHP and the 5.0 liter V8 petrol engine that produces 380 BHP. In addition to this, Jaguar is also thinking about offering a 4-cylinder 2.2-liter diesel motor to make the car more fuel efficient. [click to continue…]
The 2012 Jaguar XF recently went on sales in Europe and America. While the American model boasts of high powered engine, the European Jaguar XF now features a 2.2-liter diesel engine, which is highly fuel efficient. Tata Motors will launch the XF facelift in India along with the 2.2-liter engine, helping the company to price the car very aggressively. The current Jaguar XF diesel utilizes a 3.0-liter motor, pushing the price over half a crore. However, with the lower displacement 2.2-liter motor from the Land Rover Freelander 2, the Jaguar XF will be priced around Rs. 35 lakhs. [click to continue…]
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