Jaguar's XF Sportbrake promises a practical luxury vehicle - Gizmag
The trend toward ever more practical vehicles continued overnight with Jaguar releasing images of the new XF-based Sportbrake, that we'll see next week at the Geneva Motor Show. In times past, when wealthy folk needed an upmarket vehicle for the estate, the tastefully modified, coachbuilt practical upmarket vehicles were referred to as "shooting brakes. The Jaguar is unquestionably a "brake" - a slightly longer, far-more-practical XF with an advanced eight-speed auto and self-leveling air suspension, earmarking it as a potential tow vehicle for those who need to drag horse-floats to the polo,... Jaguar claims that the handling characteristics of the XF have been duplicated with the longer and heavier Sportbrake, which means you'd best tie things down tightly in the back, because the XF is a very sporty beast in the swervery. The interior has a large, easily-accessible and versatile load space of 1,675 liters (442. 5 US gallons) with the rear seats down, and on either side of the rear load space are a series of small compartments which seems like a long-overdue move. Source: www.gizmag.com
