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Stunning IMO:
The normally aspirated 300-hp engine in the standard XK is OK, but really, the XKR engine should be the standard power plant. Four hundred twenty horsepower is a starting point in this league and around 500 is where the players are these days. But those numbers are just talking points for the country club cocktail party on Saturday night. The truth is, most of the people you see driving these cars will never tap into even 10 percent of the performance available. In the XKR, there's enough, and the car likes to hustle.
Hustle? What's that? Say you're in the Hamptons and you have to get back to the city in two hours for a meeting. The XKR is the car to be in for that kind of 125-mile trip. It's where all the car's attributes come together — speed, handling, braking, steering, control. You work the car, the car works the traffic. You power out, downshift with the paddles, brake, get around that minivan, upshift and power out again. You get into that rhythm, in rhythm with the car, the way Michael Schumacher does in his Ferrari F1. It's an exhilarating zone to be in and the 2007 Jaguar XKR can put you there.
This car wins me over on style alone.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Followup/articleId=117566?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..1.*#2
M
The normally aspirated 300-hp engine in the standard XK is OK, but really, the XKR engine should be the standard power plant. Four hundred twenty horsepower is a starting point in this league and around 500 is where the players are these days. But those numbers are just talking points for the country club cocktail party on Saturday night. The truth is, most of the people you see driving these cars will never tap into even 10 percent of the performance available. In the XKR, there's enough, and the car likes to hustle.
Hustle? What's that? Say you're in the Hamptons and you have to get back to the city in two hours for a meeting. The XKR is the car to be in for that kind of 125-mile trip. It's where all the car's attributes come together — speed, handling, braking, steering, control. You work the car, the car works the traffic. You power out, downshift with the paddles, brake, get around that minivan, upshift and power out again. You get into that rhythm, in rhythm with the car, the way Michael Schumacher does in his Ferrari F1. It's an exhilarating zone to be in and the 2007 Jaguar XKR can put you there.
This car wins me over on style alone.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Followup/articleId=117566?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..1.*#2
M
