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Special edition Jaguar XJ

US luxury retailer Neiman Marcus is going to provide a special edition long wheelbase Jaguar XJ.

For the Jaguar XJL Supercharged Neiman Marcus Edition just 50 got booked for christmas for $105,000 (£66,000) each.

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The modifcations that are made are exclusive Celestial Black metallic paintwork and illuminated sill plates. Also a set of 20-inch 10-spoke alloy wheels is present as well.

And the XJs are treated to a tailored soft navy and ivory leather trim and Zebrano matte wood accents in the inside section.

Richard Beattie, head of marketing and sales at Jaguar said that being a part of The Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is a brilliant way to release the Jaguar XJ, one of the most expected novel opulent cars in the market for the year 2009.

Jaguar XK design package

The design package for the Jaguar XK coupe and convertible models are displayed by the German firm Startech. Adding, the company concentrate on Chrysler models however showed off its range for the Jaguar sports car at the Frankfurt motor show.
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Enhancements in the exterior and interior styling are made with new carbonfibre panels, new front and rear spoilers and a new rear diffuser.
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At the front, daytime running lights and new air vents are available with it rides on new Monostar 21-inch alloy wheels. And the ride height has been decreased by 40mm.

Moreover, it has a light brown Alcantara leather interior to make a “very English ambiance in the cockpit” in the inside section and other colours are obtainable. Also, bamboo, precious wood, carbonfibre and aluminium trim options are offered.

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The company has not released the price details but it is available for booking.

Jaguar XKR Convertible tuned

German tuner Arden has tweaked the Jaguar XKR Convertible. Adding, the

2010 model XKR Convertible gets 29bhp and 37lb ft of torque which signifies a total output of 532bhp and 498lb ft of torque.

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A sport suspension kit with stiffer shock absorbers has been en suited and the speed limiter has been removed (but no top speed is quoted) from it.

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Moreover, the other modifications that are performed in the car are the front grille and air intakes have been replaced with handmade, chrome-plated stainless steel grilles. There is a new rear diffuser that holds the novel sport exhaust system.

Also the car operates on 21-inch Sportline alloys and regarding the prices, the information are not announced yet.

Tata – Jaguar launches XJ

As vicky.in reported you already, Tata-owned Jaguar has unveiled the most expected luxury car Sedan XJ in London today (10 July 2009). Recently, Tata Motors of India acquired the British luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover from the American based auto maker Ford for $2.3 billion. As soon as Tata launched the Jaguar and Land Rover in India, the brand new luxury car, Jaguar XJ is unveiled today.

With the aerospace-inspired aluminium body architecture used for the first time, the new XJ is beautiful, and provides a loveable drive. The all-new XJ is available in both petrol and diesel versions. The Jaguar XJ is priced at 52,500 pounds (over Rs41 lakh).

For video on all new Tata Jaguar XJ visit http://www.jaguar.com/gl/en/#/allnewxj_launchfilm?id=94283

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Jaguar police car launched

Jaguar has released the first police car Jaguar XF and it is assessed by forces in the country.

The new police car is based on the XF diesel S model. Adding, it maintains the typical 271bhp 3.0-litre engine. However it comes with a roof-mounted light bar, flashing LED lights in the rear, front and in both sides.
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To influence a complete suite of emergency lights, radio and other electronic equipment the car is en suited with a Home Office-specification ‘police pack’.

The police forces are expecting for vehicles that embodies importance for money, have good environmental credentials and provide the power and performance essential of a chase vehicle, said Geoff Cousins, UK managing director for Jaguar Cars.

With extremely high level of performance and usage, protection and comfort the police officers are anticipating while driving pursuit vehicles.

Moreover the price of XF 3.0-litre diesel range begins from £33,900 and the 3.0-litre Diesel S begins at the price of £36,900.

Jaguar XJ Prototype Scouted on the Ring

For the new sweeping design Jaguar is not enchanting any likelihood at all with considering that has embarked on for the XJ opulent sedan. The company has placed many conceal on this prototype which was scouted running at the Nürburgring  even after publicizing that it will reveal the XJ on July 9. Jaguar appears to be applying its advertising slogan of “beautiful, fast cars” to all the forms, embracing the big XJ by exercising that meticulous way.

Further, Jaguar publicized at the 2009 Auto Shanghai that the XJ will facilitate the product’s novel supercharged 5.0-litre V8 engine with 510bhp (380kW) and 625Nm of maximum torque. An additional definite engine is the 3.0-litre twin turbo diesel V6 which gives 271bhp (202kW) and 600Nm of torque.

Moreover to improve performance Jaguar is employing aerospace-derived technology and aluminium body architecture for the car’s assembly. Hence the weight is anticipated to be at a less.

After the reveal in the month of July the order book for the XJ will be available. Also in the first quarter of the year 2010 the delivery will begin in few market places.

New Jaguar XJ

Jaguar bestowed Shanghai show movers a creep foretaste of the all-novel XJ saloon.
And a succinct video picture of the roof of the novel car was flickered up at the end of the press presentation, and we have two pictures in our photo arcade.
Moreover, the company also unveiled some additional information about its novel flagship. And the XJ will formulate its apt debut in London on 9 July, even though it won’t enter into the sales till the end of the year.
Jag has also definite that the novel car will be introduced in both petite and long wheelbase versions motorized by the new range of petrol and diesel engines recently released in the XF saloon.
Further, this embraces the 503bhp supercharged V8, even though it won’t be an XJR. Adding, the company insiders have divulged that a blistering XJ is still being considered and will be introduced later.
Also, all models are expected to be extremely specified and users will be capable to mold spec and options additional than on earlier Jags.  And the novel XJ also enters with the choice of a panoramic glass roof.

Jaguar to put up hybrid XJ

Jaguar is hovering to introduce the world’s first electric-drive luxury saloon, a translation of the next-gen XJ, following the European Union last week approved a loan for novel green technology.
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Adding, the get through Jag XJ four-door will utilize analogous tech to the Vauxhall Ampera/Chevy Volt. And the cars operate on electric power from batteries that are charged primarily by clasping up to the grid, but also proficient of being revitalized on the go by a small-capacity engine.
Jaguar’s targets for the ‘Limo Green’ are an electric sort of 30 miles, fuel saving of 57mpg, CO2 emissions of less than 120g/km and a high speed of 112mph. And the company has committed to begin production in the year 2011, a year following the next-generation XJ is released.
Moreover, Jaguar’s alloy body technology must make certain a low kerb weight and the electric XJ’s powertrain is being created in concurrence with British engineering brains at Lotus Engineering, MIRA and Caparo.
In addition, the £307 million loan approval in the last week by the European Investment Bank will improve JLR’s green investments to £800m as it bids to slash overall emissions by 25 per cent by the year 2012.
Money will also be downcast into forming full hybrids, micro-hybrids, small-capacity diesel engines and ‘soft-turbocharged’ petrol engines.
Further, a novel mini-Range Rover hybrid based on the LRX concept and motorized by a 2.0-litre diesel is also considered.
Also, the Land Rover has a ‘mild hybrid’ Range Rover Sport in creation, with a super-capacitor for short-term electricity storage and a starter-generator that gets back energy during engine braking.
JLR has guaranteed to involve at more widespread use of lightweight materials such as aluminium across the sort.
Land Rover is put to formulate the next Range Rover and Sport with alloy bodyshells, and the novel XE two-seat sports car is pencilled in as an option of the next-generation alloy XK.
It is expected that Jag will reassess making the XF replacement in alloy, once the arrangement with the existing model.
An additional likelihood is to ‘dress’ steel cars like the next-gen XF in alloy body sections. Going ahead could hoard around 100kg off the kerb weight.

Jaguar XJ limo – more proof of XF chic

Jaguar’s novel XJ will be a low-slung, sporting opulent car, these novel scout images confirm. Though taken from an elongated distance with a telephoto lens, we can build out that the newest XF executive car will have bounty of persuade on the novel 2010 Jaguar XJ.

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The camouflage is opening to fall off the archetypes and these are the first shovel images of the new limo, codenamed X351, without the armadillo body armor of the earlier stories.

So how will the real novel Jaguar XJ look?

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Exposed of the forged roofline, we can at this time start to observe how swoopy the novel XJ will be. Adding, we consider the new four-door will move away from the upright, shrewd proportions of conformist opulent cars such as the Audi A8, BMW 7-series, Lexus LS and Mercedes S-class.

As an alternative, anticipate a lower-slung sports saloon – that arcing roofline is a genuine bombshell. And it’s plain to glimpse that the novel XJ will set sporting gorgeousness over headroom, hauling over plethora of XF styling language in the interior and out. That connotes the handshake start-up, breaching ‘eyelid’ air vents and the Jaguar Drive rotating gearshift.

When will we actually observe the novel XJ?

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courtesy: www.worldcarfans.com

Quicker than you might consider. Adding the XJ will be exposed in July 2009 in advance of its Frankfurt motor show presentation. UK sales begin in this winter.

The XJ will prolong the aluminium construction of today’s model to formulate it the lightest car in the set. Further, a completely glazed roof, like on the new Aston Martin Rapide, will also be presented.

Fortified with a set of new 5.0-litre direct injection petrol engines (in physically aspirated and supercharged forms) and the newest 3.0-litre V6 turbodiesels, Jag insiders allege it will set the standard for concert and emissions.

And in meticulous, the 3.0 TD will, we hear, proffer the lowest CO2 rating of any opulent car – hybrid or not.

Jaguar’s bolder, sharper XJ

The sweeping novel Jaguar XJ will be unveiled in London this July in advance of its release later in 2009, and Jaguar requires to salvage some of its habitual executive consumers with the car.

Formerly the likely and jingoistic option for board directors all over in corporate Britain, the XJ has been reinstated as the automobile of alternative by the Mercedes S-class. However with fresh chic, lightweight alloy construction, and novel engines, the novel XJ is designed to open up a novel customer base.

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Project X351, as the car is called, commenced as a reskin of the present XJ. Nevertheless as the programme has urbanized, the engineering alterations have become more widespread.

In reality, X351 will be the initial Jaguar flagship to be introduced with a retooled body and novel engines. Conventionally Jaguar does what most other car producers perform, and releases carry-over engines in a novel body to maintain costs down.

Greatly of the formation is also novel; the rear structure has been modified to lodge the XK’s differential, which needs a novel subframe and novel mounts.

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The instructions cultured in the reskin and repackaging of the S-type into the XF are being functional to the XJ. For instance, Jaguar happening out with a coupe-like rear cabin, with a short back seat for a shallowly-raked rear window.

However the design has experienced into a more practical shape, resoluted by the obligation to formulate the rear cabin as relaxed as likely for chauffeur-driven businessmen.

Chic is stirred by the XF, but well positioned sources say that we should anticipate a much more staged and eye-catching look. ‘People identify that there’s novel car coming, but they won’t be geared up for anything like this,’ said one source concerned in the project.

The core, too, is portrayed as a ‘big step forward’. Although facilitates such as the XF’s rotary gear selector are conceded over, and the basic theme engross plenty of glossy wood and metallic trim, the novel XJ takes the design to novel levels of craftsmanship and quality. ‘We discern that we had to toil on this,’ said another project insider.

The flagship of the sort will be the XJR, motorized by the novel 503bhp direct-injection 5.0-litre V8. With that amount of heave to release a sub-1700kg saloon, the XJR is enchanting a major step into Bentley and AMG territory, while preserving Jaguar’s renowned balance of ride and managing.

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Further, the most critical engine is the novel twin-turbo 3.0-litre V6 diesel, with 271bhp on tap. Fuel cutback must to be close to the XF’s; ballpark figure put it at about 40mpg. The car will also receive the lower-powered version of the similar oil-burner, with 237bhp.

Moreover, the V6’s peak power and torque figures are very near to the V8 TDI which emerges in the Range Rover. Jaguar is hence not possibly to engineer the XJ to catch the V8 unit.

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