By Design: 2017 Jaguar XE - Automobile
Jaguars have long followed a fairly regular cycle of SS-DD-SS (Scintillating Star, Deadly Dud, repeat). In the 1940s, my U. K. -born father took me to see the Mk IV and the just-arrived Mk V sedans in Southern California. The subsequent Mk VII (there wasn’t a VI) was very nice, a little old-fashioned but—in a Packard-like way—distinguished in its conservatism and a Scintillating Star. The VIII and IX models were slightly redecorated Mk VIIs, but the Mk X was a huge, rather ungainly Deadly Dud beast, followed in 1968 by the best sedan Sir William Lyons ever did, the XJ. It was so good that with its next two replacements—the... I didn’t like the 1955 2. 4-liter saloon, later called Mk I, nor the Mk II, although many do. Jaguar moved away from smaller cars until it built the S-Type, a retro Mk II-style sedan with mid-1950s styling and modern Ford engineering, in the late... The XF successor properly belongs in the SS category, and now we have the XE, which is neither SS nor DD. It has not a trace of exoticism, which is hard to understand or accept, given the brilliance of the current XJ sedan, our 2011 Design of the... I had hoped that the 2017 Jaguar XE would carry on the imaginative, individual, and exciting style of the XJ. It doesn’t. Source: www.automobilemag.com
