It’s easy to make friends with the XF’s brake pedal, a firm, honest device that flawlessly relays commands to the binders and operates with a short range of travel. The car is rated for 17 mpg city and 27 mpg highway.) (Do that often, however, and you’ll end up with a low fuel-economy number like our 17-mpg figure. Once underway, it transfers the bulk of the power back to the rear wheels for maximum acceleration. Capable of shuffling up to 50 percent of the available torque to the front wheels when conditions dictate, it can also preload torque on the front wheels to optimize traction when accelerating from a dead stop. This XF’s accelerative feats can partially be credited to the electronically controlled all-wheel-drive setup, which Jaguar markets as Instinctive All Wheel Drive. Keeping the throttle pinned sent the XF through the quarter-mile in 13.9 seconds at 102 mph, respectable numbers for a 4385-pound car.
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We shaved nearly an entire second off Jag’s quoted zero-to-60-mph time of 6.1 seconds, with our test driver turning in a 5.3-second sprint. The thrust is accompanied by a reserved soundtrack well suited to the car’s elegant exterior. Mated to a ZF-supplied eight-speed automatic transmission with the requisite paddle shifters, the V-6 delivers its output in a linear fashion and obediently follows commands to rev, spinning smoothly to its 6500-rpm horsepower peak. We’re not complaining, as the 3.0-liter is a brawny beast that churns up 332 lb-ft of twist from 3500 to 5000 rpm. And sports-car fans take note: Jaguar recently announced certain variants of the 2016 F-type would be available with AWD, too.Īlthough the rear-drive XF is available with engines ranging from a 240-hp 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-four to a stonkin’ 550-hp supercharged V-8, the AWD XF comes paired exclusively with the 340-hp 3.0-liter supercharged V-6. That’s not to say that Jaguar is all of a sudden more than a bit player in comparison to the Teutonic trio, but its sales veritably exploded when it fast-tracked and retrofitted an all-wheel-drive system to the XF and XJ luxury sedans.
Jaguar learned this the hard way in places like the American Northeast, where BMW’s xDrive, Mercedes-Benz’s 4MATIC, and Audi’s Quattro AWD systems rendered the British brand’s products all but invisible. In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger frontal air bag, these inflators may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to absolute humidity and temperature cycling.All-wheel-drive sports sedans are a prerequisite for any manufacturer serious about racking up sales in markets where the weather can get frightful.
Virgin Islands, or "Zone A." Unless included in "Zone A" above, Jaguar is also recalling certain 2011-2015 Jaguar XF vehicles, originally sold, or ever registered, in Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, or "Zone B." Unless included in Zone A and Zone B above, Jaguar is also recalling certain 2010-2015 Jaguar XF vehicles, originally sold, or ever registered in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming or "Zone C." These vehicles are equipped with certain air bag inflators assembled as part of the passenger frontal air bag modules used as original equipment or replacement equipment.
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Jaguar) is recalling certain 2014-2015 Jaguar XF vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan), and the U.S.
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