The Jaguar XF is a mid-size luxury car / executive car that will replace the S-Type in the British automaker Jaguar Cars lineup. Neither details nor official images of the new car have emerged, but a production version of the XF is scheduled for launch for the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show, with customer deliveries set to commence in spring 2008, depending on market.
Jaguar says the new car will be developed at their HQ in Coventry, UK and will be built in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, UK.
C-XF Concept:
The Jaguar C-XF (for Concept-XF) is a concept car which indicates a new design direction for Jaguar cars. It was revealed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. The C-XF concept is a preview of the forthcoming Jaguar XF model.
Details of the concept were officially unveiled by Jaguar on 3 January 2007.
The current and previous generations of Jaguar cars were notably "retro" in design, being heavily influenced by styling cues from classic Jaguars from the 1960s. The C-XF represents a departure from that design strategy. Although the C-XF has four doors, its shape is very much that of a coupé, following a design trend started by the already super-successful Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class. Jaguar knows this approach will limit the potential market for the car, but the thinking within Jaguar is that its current woes are down to an overly ambitious, poorly conceived and executed plan to turn Jaguar into a large-volume rival for BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. So now, instead of building the 200,000 cars per year, mooted at the turn of the century it will aim for somewhat less than 100,000, turning Jaguar into an exclusive, low-volume manufacturer of high-quality premium sporting cars. The Jaguar XK was the first tentative step in this direction — the XF is the giant leap, as Ian Callum puts it: "Jaguars should be perceived as cool cars, and cool cars attract interesting, edgy people."
There are rumours that the C-XF is planned to appear in the next, as yet untitled, James Bond film Bond 22.
The Jaguar C-XF (for Concept-XF) is a concept car which indicates a new design direction for Jaguar cars. It was revealed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. The C-XF concept is a preview of the forthcoming Jaguar XF model.
Details of the concept were officially unveiled by Jaguar on 3 January 2007.
The current and previous generations of Jaguar cars were notably "retro" in design, being heavily influenced by styling cues from classic Jaguars from the 1960s. The C-XF represents a departure from that design strategy. Although the C-XF has four doors, its shape is very much that of a coupé, following a design trend started by the already super-successful Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class. Jaguar knows this approach will limit the potential market for the car, but the thinking within Jaguar is that its current woes are down to an overly ambitious, poorly conceived and executed plan to turn Jaguar into a large-volume rival for BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. So now, instead of building the 200,000 cars per year, mooted at the turn of the century it will aim for somewhat less than 100,000, turning Jaguar into an exclusive, low-volume manufacturer of high-quality premium sporting cars. The Jaguar XK was the first tentative step in this direction — the XF is the giant leap, as Ian Callum puts it: "Jaguars should be perceived as cool cars, and cool cars attract interesting, edgy people."
There are rumours that the C-XF is planned to appear in the next, as yet untitled, James Bond film Bond 22.
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