Jaguar XF Sportbrake 2012

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Eu só queria era elogiar a beleza do Azul, coisa que em Portugal não se deve ver

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acho que esta bem feita , muito bem conseguida , logo á primeira vista o pilar D em preto deixo me a torcer o nariz mas ja vi pelo menos pelas fotos da azul que vai ser como opcao .

mas gosto , sinceramente prefiro a sedan mas se me for por a comparar com bmw , mercedes ou audi este levava o meu dinheiro.

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XFR Sportbrake render:

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Não resultou, no geral, mal de todo, apesar de não estar nem de perto ao nivel do muito bom restyling operado no sedan.
Compreendo o objectivo do pilar "preto". Criar a ilusão de uma superfície vidrada contínua, ajuda a adelgaçar todo o volume traseiro. Mas, tal como no XJ, ver isto ao vivo apenas revela uma solução visual baratucha.
A única forma de esta solução resultar seria mesmo ter um óculo traseiro único, a unir os pilares D. Claro que seria oneroso, e de resolução técnica dificil. E por isso esta solução de recurso.
Mas mesmo por ser de recurso e não dar os resultados pretendidos é que seria melhor prescindir dela e procurar uma outra qualquer solução visual.
E depois temos coisas destas em baixo.


Podemos ter bons desenhos, mas que acabam por perder bastante nestes pormenores de execução. Apesar de ser um desalinhamento minimo, e provavelmente passará despercebido passando os olhos por uma criatura destas na rua, desaponta. Estamos a falar já de um carro com posicionamento elevado e com preço correspondente. Pode-se dar mais atenção a estes pormenores.

Os grupos ópticos traseiros ganharam volume, comparando com o sedan. Não resulta tão bem, e parece faltar alguma tridimensionalidade à traseira. O sedan acaba por apresentar um contorno subtilmente mais orgÂnico (contorno da secção longitudinal), que lhe garante maior tensão na superfície. A carrinha, por outro lado, apresenta um contorno caracterizado por uma linha mais cheia, contínua, sem variações na orientação, ganhando aparência mais "flat", bidimensional. Em conjunto com os grupos ópticos traseiros mais generosos, e também eles de contornos mais cheios, acaba por perder a elegância pretendida com o revestimento no pilar D. E ganha um maior contraste com a agressiva frente. Olhando apenas para a traseira, nunca aquela frente faria sentido, tal a diferença de "tom".

Era o mesmo problema que encontrava na carrinha do série 5 E60. Não combinava com quase nada na restante carroçaria. Ao contrário do sedan.
Concluindo, a imagem geral até é agradável, desde que não percamos muito tempo a analisar as partes...

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Tenho que concordar com o crash. O carro não é desagradável, mas não ficou nada de especial. O pilar preto, tal como no XJ, resulta bem se virmos ao longe, dá bom aspecto ao carro, por isso também deverá dar bom aspecto a esta carrinha. O pior é quando vemos mais de perto, o que parecia sofisticação (porque não há muitos carros ou nenhuns mesmo com o vidro traseiro a invadir a lateral) acaba por perder toda a graça por ser apenas um pedaço de chapa pintado a preto (e o vidro a invadir a lateral era só uma ilusão).

Se, por um lado, temos um sedan que me faz esquecer por completo o A6 e Série 5, por outro, temos aqui uma carrinha que deixa um pouco a desejar. A BMW com o pack M (aquele pára-choques frontal não-pack M é mesmo feio) fica bastante bem e a própria A6 Avant também é bastante elegante, como é apanágio da marca.

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Jaguar Designs a Concept Speedboat to go with its New XF Sportbrake - Carscoop

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Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake apanhada em testes pela primeira vez

The Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake has been spied for the first time ahead of what we believe to be a September launch at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

We weren't aware Jaguar was planning a more practical XFR-S but these spy shots depict the Sportbrake model which will come with a larger boot. It's easy to see this is the hotter version thanks to generous air intakes, beefy diffuser, a quad exhaust setup, large alloys with low-profile performance tires, bigger brakes and the badging at the back.

The XFR-S Sportbrake will borrow the sedan's supercharged V8 5.0-liter engine which produces 542 bhp (405 kW) and 680 Nm (502 lb-ft). The regular 2014 XFR-S equipped with the eight-speed ZF gearbox does 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) in 4.6 seconds and an electronically-capped top speed of 186 mph (300 km/h). The Sportbrake version will probably be a tad slower in the 0-62 mph sprint due to the added weight.

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XFR-S Sportbrake para Genebra

Imagem ainda com pouca qualidade

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Autocar - Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake

What is it?

Jaguar’s first high-performance estate, which will cost £83,000 when it goes on sale in the next few weeks. The rear-drive XFR-S Sportbrake is powered by a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 engine, which is good for 542bhp and 443lbft of torque.
That’s a 39bhp and 40.5lb ft hike over the same unit used the in XFR saloon. Jaguar is claiming the car will sprint from 0-60mph in just 4.6sec and then run onto a limited top speed of 186mph. Official EU economy is just 22mpg.
Jaguar says the power boost has been achieved by revisions to the engine management system and by changes to airflow both into and out of the engine, through a modified exhaust system.

Changes have also been made to the Sportbrake’s rear suspension in order to "handle the extra rear mass" of the estate body. These include increasing the springs rates by "100 per cent" over the standard XF modeland increasing the lateral suspension stiffness up by 30 per cent front and rear.
The adaptive damping, active electronic rear differential and Dynamic Stability Control settings have also been tweaked to sit under the estate body. The XFR-S rolls on 20in wheels wearing specifically developed Pirelli tyres.

The V8 drive’s an eight-speed automatic ‘box, which gets the same ‘Quickshift’ technology that was introduced on the F-type. This, says Jaguar, makes the transmission even quicker to respond to the driver’s inputs. The transmission also has ‘corner recognition’ that senses when the car is travelling around a bend and retain ‘the correct’ transmission ratio for the driver to make the best exit.

Aside from the extravagant body kit (which has advantages in ‘reducing lift’ and improving engine cooling efficiency by around 5 per cent) the XFR-S is marked out by carbonfibre body kit parts, carbonfibre-effect trim inside and double line stitching with ‘micro-piping’ on much of the leather interior.
Jaguar says the Sportbrake’s load capacity is 1675 litres but with the rear seats in place the boot is relatively shallow under the load cover.

What is it like?

Edgy. The cars we drove on the narrow roads above Lake Geneva were still classed and pre-production prototypes and we did not have the time at the wheel – or the safe space – to stretch the car.

However, there’s not doubt that this Sportbrake is a very different beast toAudi’s well established (20 years this year) RS estate line. Unlike the increasingly refined and limo-like – if still devastatingly fast – Audis, this XFR-S is much more demonic.
Much of the demonism comes from the car’s sheer wallop. With the full 502lb ft of torque available at just 2500rpm and the eight-speed auto quick shift, it is amazingly easy to break traction. Rounding a near-180deg hairpin, just tapping in a little acceleration to help pull the car around was enough to have the inside rear wheel spinning.

Where we could try a little straight-line acceleration, the XFR-S was predictably very rapid indeed. Jaguar has emphasised the sound of the engine and the exhaust note, but not to a ridiculous degree. It’s clearly there, but it’s also nicely in the background.
There’s not much else we can definitively say after a short drive, but the XFR-S is easy to place on the road, steers pretty accurately and feels well put together. It also has nicely weighted steering at lower speeds.

The extra lateral stiffness of the suspension, along with the wide tyres did, though, mean that the car was following the undulations of one badly surfaced road. The overall ride quality seemed very well judged for such a high performance machine.

Should I buy one?

The XFR-S Sportbrake is an interesting proposition. It has that precise and 'engineered' feeling that AMG manages in cars such as the CLS wagon, but lacks the refinement, outright traction and stability of Audi's RS models - which makes it feel closer to a pure sports car.

It’s an unexpected combination of executive car and hard-edged driver’s machine. The right sort of driver will find the XFR-S a gloriously challenging cross-country racer. But in anything but perfect conditions, it will demand an attentive and skilled driver to extract the best out of it.
Potential buyers should be sure they want a car that demands this attention, rather than just a very powerful executive estate.

Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake

Price £83,000; 0-62mph 4.6sec; Top speed 186mph limited; Economy22.2mpg (combined); CO2 297g/km; Kerb weight 1800kg (est); EngineV8, supercharged, 5000cc; Power 542bhp at 6500rpm; Torque 502lb ft at 2500-5500rpm; Gearbox 8-spd auto

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Ao vivo de Genebra

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Mais algumas imagens da XFR-S Sportbrake de Genebra

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JAGUAR XFR-S SPORTBRAKE: DRIVEN

A quick drive (is there any other kind?) in Jaguar's new 550hp XF Sportbrake



Chris Froome and his colleagues must've really been putting in the miles over the winter. Previously equipped with diesel-powered XF Sportbrakes, the Sky team clearly needed something with a bit more oomph to keep up with the lycra lads, performance enhancement for the team convoy coming in the shape of 550hp supercharged V8s. Say hello to the Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake.


The rest of the teams use Skoda Superbs...

If the Team Sky cars weren't already the coolest vehicles in the Tour de France cavalcade they will be now. Guys, if you need a driver or two for when the Tour comes to Yorkshire later in the year we are available... OK, so the 'regular' team cars will be new MY15, 163hp 2.2 diesels with the newly announced R-Sport trimmings (think S Line, AMG Sport or M Sport) but the team director's recce car will be this proper monster.
Ahead of its official unveiling at the Palexpo tomorrow Jaguar let us have a quick go with the XFR-S Sportbrake, but not until we'd earned it with a bit of a pedal on Team Sky style Pinarellos to properly get into character. PH - lycra matters.

Back on topic
But so do supercharged V8s, so you'll be glad to hear we'll concentrate on the latter henceforth. Mechanically the XFR-S Sportbrake carries over all the technology from the saloon equivalent, meaning the same 5.0-litre supercharged engine, 550hp, 502lb ft, limited 186mph top speed (two fingers to the 155mph limited Germans there) and significantly uprated spring rates and adaptive damping.


E63/RS6 Avant shoot-out eagerly awaited

Standard Sportbrakes use air-sprung rear axles for self-levelling duties but given that, with spring rates up by 100 per cent, even a sodden wet Labrador isn't likely to make the bag end drag on the deck the engineers have carried over the saloon's coil-sprung set-up. OK, so it wasn't entirely for that reason. Having crunched the numbers of what they wanted for the handling targets and realised the air-sprung axle wasn't going to be able to meet them it was a no brainer to carry over the coils.

Brief encounter
Why skip straight to -S and not have a 'regular' XFR Sportbrake? Well, Jaguar wants the new car to act as a halo for the Sportbrake range and 'make some noise' (job done there) and with the XFR-S doing that rather well for the saloon it made sense to skip straight to that. Bracketed by rivals like the £84K Mercedes E63 S estate and £77K Audi RS6 Avant, the XFR-S Sportbrake's £82,495 starting price kind of makes sense too. Well, insomuch as that amount of money for a 550hp hot rod estate car ever can. Too rich for your tastes? Give it a year or two and hit the classifieds once depreciation has had its pound of flesh from the original buyer.


XFR-S cool, wagon version cooler still

What's it like to drive? About that. A test route lasting all of 10 minutes and taking in narrow urban roads in the hills above Lake Geneva didn't exactly offer much chance to let the XFR-S Sportbrake off the leash. But dynamically it, surprise surprise, feels very much like the regular saloon. There's been much discussion of the XFR-S's ride quality and while it's undoubtedly firm it's not without fluency and though massively potent it's a car that'll rumble and waft at 'domestic' speeds quite comfortably. The incongruity factor of seeing a bright blue Jaguar sideways in clouds of tyre smoke will doubtless be amplified at such time as we get a chance to do so, little nibbles from the wheel even at these speeds suggesting the Sportbrake is no less keen to do so than the saloon.

We also kind of like the fact that as the Tour de France departs from Yorkshire later this year patriotic spectators will know their Team Sky heroes are coming by the sound of a barely silenced V8 leading the way. Bravo.

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JAGUAR XFR-S
Engine: 5,000cc, V8, supercharged
Transmission: 8-speed auto, rear-wheel drive
Power (hp): 550@6,500rpm
Torque (lb ft): 502@2,500-5,500rpm
0-62mph: 4.8sec
Top speed: 186mph (limited)
MPG: 22.2 (Combined)
CO2: 297g/km
Price: £82,495

Author: Dan Trent

Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake: Driven - PistonHeads