Lightning Lap 2014: Jaguar XKR-S GT - Car and Driver (blog)
True, Jaguar has never built budget cars, but this goes well beyond a banker’s indulgence. We ran the 550-hp XKR-S at the last Lightning Lap, concluding that its murderous power, numb steering, and alarming greasiness at the rear created a combination offering “nothing but blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” to quote Sir Churchill. At first glance, Jaguar’s latest trick seems to be just adding more: two more letters to the car’s name, two pairs of dive planes on each cheek, plus a taller wing and another $42,000 to the price—though no more power. Note that in Turn One it pulled more than 1. 0 g compared with the XKR-S’s 0. 94. Yowling up the esses, it averaged nearly 120 mph versus the old car’s 114. 8. The speeds rose and the times fell as our confidence grew in this car and its ability... The magenta line on this graph represents the XKR-S GT’s lap. the yellow line shows the SL63’s. (For the record, the Jag was 0. 05 second quicker overall. ) Anywhere the yellow line dips below the magenta line, the SL moves ahead of the XKR, and vice versa. Source: www.caranddriver.com
