New XE Jaguar is drool Britannia - Stuff.co.nz
Throughout the past 50 years or more, the cover stories of fiercely loyal weekly and monthly British car magazines have featured hyperbolic headlines describing the latest "British World-Beater. The cars closest to realising the premise of a genuine British world-beater were Jaguars. Sadly, some of the sweeping renderings seen on the magazines' covers and illustrating the stories inside were merely artists' impressions, of which Jaguar had no knowledge. The same could be said of various Rover and Aston Martin ideas, and the same magazines seriously expected that the Ford Mondeo-based (and a lot better than it ever was given credit for) X-Type could finally fulfil those expectant headlines, along... Even the gorgeous XF didn't quite manage it, mainly because then owner Ford's purse strings tightened and prevented the car from being made from aluminium as it was designed to be. That the XF was so good despite being a heavier, steel-constructed... Jaguar's new, worst-kept secret, the XE has now arrived, complete with aluminium construction and a new platform which, ironically the new series two XF will borrow, in extended form. Source: www.stuff.co.nz
