Jag's new XF sticks closely to original's design - Irish Times
Meet the new boss, sang The Who, same as the old boss. Has Jaguar been dragging some old 12” LPs out of the back of the cupboard while designing the new XF. It certainly looks so because the car unveiled today in London, ahead of a full public debut at the New York motor show, looks barely any... The casual observer is going to need a magnifying glass and a tape measure to tell old XF and new XF apart on the road. “In creating the all-new XF, as a design team we have been driven by discipline, the discipline of simplicity. it’s all too easy to add lines to a car, but much harder to addcharacter by leaving lines out” said Ian Callum , Jaguar’s design director at the launch. Reading between the lines, the careful evolution of the XF’s shape is about a combination of not upsetting the existing customer base and trying to re-inforce Jaguar’s design language. Out goes the old steel chassis (closely related to that of the 1998 S-Type and the Lincoln LS) and in comes a new 75-per-cent aluminium chassis, very closely related to the one propping up the new compact XE saloon. It’s 30 per cent stiffer than before, claims Jaguar, has 50:50 front:rear weight distribution and is as much as 190kg lighter than before to boot. Jaguar says that it has the roomiest back seats in the class. Source: www.irishtimes.com
