First Look: 2016 Jaguar XF-S - Driving
PAMPLONA, Spain — With the launch of its all-new, second-generation XF at Pamplona, Spain’s Circuito de Navarra, Jaguar becomes the first mainstream automaker to build all its cars out of aluminum. With the demise of the steel-framed XK, the new XF joins the long-aluminized XJ, the recently-introduced F-Type and the being-shipped-next-year XE to be made entirely (or, in the case of the XF and the XE, about 75%) of aluminum. All things being equal, of course, lighter means both faster and more fuel efficient, good news for those shopping the new supercharged XF as it weighs a not-insubstantial 120 kilograms less than the outgoing V6 XF (a diesel four-cylinder version,... So, according Rob Filipovic, product planning manager at Jaguar Land Rover North America, the aluminized 2016 V6 is nine per cent more fuel efficient than its steel-bodied predecessor and, more impressively, four per cent more frugal than last... Even the 340-hp version of Jaguar’s supercharged V6 easily breaks the six-second mark, impressive for something that is supposed to serve as the entry-level XF, at least until the promised four-cylinder 2. 0L turbodiesel arrives. Source: driving.ca
