Comments on: First Drive: 2010 Jaguar XK and XKR [Review]

By: goraddy

goraddy — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:48:27 +0000

This is my Dad’s dream car. I like!

By: mentir

mentir — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:20:07 +0000

I think what’s important is that Jaguar is currently making a reliable and quality product. As far as a GT goes, an XKR coupe is at the top of my list.

By: l.sanchez

l.sanchez — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:30:21 +0000

I actually commend Jag for keeping the wieght down compared to the competition and pushing efficiency. They certainly had their bad years, but it seems they’ve turned the corner beating Lexus and Infiniti now in JD Powers stuff. I’d rather have a Brit than a Jap up there.

By: shane train

shane train — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:50:29 +0000

They did a great job cleaning up that exterior. The front fascia is excellent.

By: save saab

save saab — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:45:59 +0000

The XKR is one of my favorite cars, despite having an automatic. The update looks pretty good, and I love the new interior.

By: Michael Shoemaker

Michael Shoemaker — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:39:19 +0000

I have a 1989 mondial T, and besides the 30,000mile and 60,000 mile servvices, it has run perfectly…Guess it’s a ringer lol!

By: zoomzoomer

zoomzoomer — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:20:36 +0000

Not a huge fan of the new gills ahead of the front wheels.. but overall a nice update.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:17:17 +0000

It’s OK Andrew. You’ll re-read your posts in the morning and then spend the rest of the weekend thinking this can’t disappear off the 20 most current fast enough. Been there, done that. But hey, look at the bright side, it’s less painful than chewing your own arm off.

By: Andrew Ganz

Andrew Ganz — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:54:34 +0000

The X-Type… a good Ford. No, a great Ford. A great car, really. A most unimpressive Jaguar, however. Badged as a Ford Contour and sold in the Land of the Free, we’d never have seen the Ford Fusion. But, alas…

By: Andrew Ganz

Andrew Ganz — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:52:36 +0000

Absolutely, Jaguar has made cars that were delicate to maintain and that required a patient, knowledgeable, expensive mechanic to be on speed dial. But that doesn’t necessarily make them bad cars. When, on the rare chance that they are running, you have the opportunity to explore them in ways they were designed to be exercise, you realize that they are brilliant, smashing-to-drive automobiles. A genuinely car needn’t be a reliable car, per the definition I’ve offered above. To wit: Few would argue that a Ferrari is not a good car… but fewer yet would be able to find a Ferrari that has not required major work in the first 5,000 miles.

Would I choose to own, say, an early-’80s XJS V12? You have to be kidding me. Not on this paycheck! But would I pass up the opportunity to flog a well-sorted one? No way. They’re dynamically impressive cars that deliver in the Jaguar tradition.

And I’ve corrected the British Leyland mistake and I’ve phired the pruufing teem.

By: Bavarian_818

Bavarian_818 — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:58:48 +0000

2010 Tata XKR… Nice!!!

By: Mutant@DCX

Mutant@DCX — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:31:22 +0000

Does Letland union workers have a dental plan?

By: TomF

TomF — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:31:44 +0000

Andrew writes, “Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Jaguar has ever made a genuinely bad car.” Jag has never DESIGNED a genuinely bad car, perhaps, but it has MADE oodles of them. Production quality is integral to a car’s goodness or badness — I’ve doodled some really good cars, but that doesn’t make me a quality carmaker. Jag has made some of the poorest-quality, least-well-executed vehicles in the western world, and that makes them genuinely bad cars, no matter how seductive the clay models were.

And the X-Type was as much a Jag as the Cadillac Cimarron was a Cadillac: it was a gussied-up, rebadged Mondeo. Rather than argue with you that it was a bad Jag, I will say it wasn’t a Jag at all and doesn’t even belong in the pantheon. It was a Ford with a cat glued to the hood.

And it’s British LEYLAND. British Leland is the murderer in the BBC remake of “Twin Peaks.”

Proofing services for sale cheap.

By: teahead

teahead — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:10:28 +0000

Still not crazy about that goldfish-looking front end. Should have made it more Aston looking IMHO. Still a nice looking car.