2009 Jaguar XKR with JaguarDrive - Spied - Car and Driver
Look closely at these pictures of the 2009 Jaguar XKR coupe and you'll notice a revised lower front fascia with a wider, "smiling" center air intake that replaces the triple-port lower fascia of the current model. More important, however, the XK, which already does a remarkable impression of James Bond's famous Aston Martins, appears on track to get at least some technologies that are straight out of 007's gadget collection, including the "JaguarDrive"... Well, that's understandable—given the significance (and beauty) of the car's design, it was easy to overlook its interior particulars, especially as the car left the show before the public days. Even if JaguarDrive elements were noticed, many believed that, of all things, the sleek, integrated shift mechanism in particular was more auto-show than auto-go. Basically, it's a glitzy new way of integrating all the stuff on the center console with electronic, flush-mounted controls, including a push-button starter (which the XK already has), buttons for shift/throttle settings, and a dial-type shifter... In the C-XF, the shift dial is rendered in solid aluminum and set within concentric polished aluminum rings, all of which are embedded flush with the transmission tunnel. The rings around the dial spiral downward, one by one, about an inch once the driver—or passenger, we suppose—presses the throbbing red start button (said to evoke the "heartbeat" of the car), leaving the dial right in the palm of the hand. Source: www.caranddriver.com
