
By Jon Quirk
07 February 2008

The Jaguar XF isn’t short of press coverage. Everyone who is anyone is talking about this car, despite the fact it isn’t actually on sale until March. But if we were to look beyond the rumours of the marque’s inevitable takeover, sift through the heavy marketing blurb and jingoistic journalism this “new Jaguar” has received up to date, what would the XF really be like? Not as the saviour to Jaguar, not even as the sign of things to come for the Coventry cat but more simply, more pressingly, as a car that you and I could feasibly own.

Forget the headline-grabbing figures of the 410bhp supercharged V8 for the next five minutes. The most important model set to account for nearly 80per cent of the XF’s UK sales will be this 2.7-litre TDVi - the sole diesel unit in the range. Is it good enough to trade in the BMW 5-series?
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