2016 Jaguar XE R-Sport review - Practical Motoring
The more overtly sporting models in the XE range continue a long Jaguar tradition of sporting saloons. The choice of engines in the R-Sport is the 2. 0-litre petrol engine in two different states of tune and a 2. 0-litre diesel while the more extreme S gets the 3. 0-litre V6 as found in the F-Type. The four-cylinder petrol engines (designated the 20t and 25t) share much of their technology with Ford’s EcoBoost, an engine we have always liked despite Ford’s almost criminal failure to promote it in the Falcon. Driving the 147kW R-Sport (we didn’t get into the 177kW version – we only drove the Prestige with this engine) amply demonstrated the delights of almost perfect 50:50 weight distribution and the superiority of double wishbone front suspension and... The electric power steering (a first for Jaguar) proved to be responsive and more communicative than many of its ilk. Like them, wind noise and other road noise was superbly isolated from the cabin. The mouth-watering S (pictured in the gallery below) gets the full-fruit 3. 0-litre supercharged V6 with a headlining 250kW and 450Nm. As you’d expect, it’s a real road-burner, thrusting driver and passenger back into the well-bolstered seats... Source: practicalmotoring.com.au
