Yeah right,
if what Autocar put was true.
Sorry, the amount of cr*p being written here, being taken as gospel, has made me register.
As anyone over five years of age, not lobotomised, not on the payroll, a paid/unpaid internet shill of/for Haymarket publications/JLR's Gaydon press office knows, Autocar and Jaguar/Land Rover are notorious for being flat-out, in-yer-face liars. The only value of Autocar is comedy.
£3.20(~ $5) per week, to have one's intelligence insulted by a pack of morbidly obese, cynically jingoistic, no scruples no-marks, like Cropley, Saunders and Sutcliffe, in the pocket of Tata's slush fund/'entertainment' budget, and probably Rupert Heseltine with some share interest in Tata Motors? Come on. Open your eyes!
Let's deal with facts rather than over-the-top BS, which is Autocar/most little-englander Brit auto writers(Auto Express, What Car, Car, Pistonheads(Chris Harris excepted), etc., etc.,)' stock-in-trade.
The stated 'lower weight' and higher power-to-weight is a lie . Autocar did not weigh the cars, but state manufacturers' data. See this earlier comparison test for an example of real, actual weights:
http://www.germancarforum.com/commu...brio-new-sl500-911-carrera-s-cabriolet.44221/
Jag XKR Cabrio (not '-S') - 1,916 kg (oh, and the XKR came last).
- that's over 100 kg, 121 kilos to be precise, than the stated weight by Autocar/Jaguar for the higher-powered '-S' version, which one might expect to be a bit heavier than the standard XKR Cab..
By the way, for those who don't know of the ways of JLR's deception and mendacity, on their official material and their websites they always state weight as without driver and luggage, which is contrary to the EU/German/fast-becoming world auto industry norm. By doing this they automatically make themselves look 75 kg (68 kg driver + 7 kg luggage) lighter than the apparently obese Germans, who actually stick to the convention of EU-norm weight stating, as opposed to the former 'DIN' norm, which did not include driver and luggage weight.
The Range Rover Evoque is a particularly blatant example of JLR conning people that their products are 'lightweight', 'high-tech', 'modern' and 'premium', whereas in reality the Evoque is ~200 kgs over the claimed weight (1,850 v 1,650 kgs), fuel-guzzling, mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb(LR2 underpinnings and Ford engines), inadequately developed and engineered(electronics interfaces notoriously), shoddily built, and massively, ~£10k/$15k, overpriced.
Also note that JLR always try to deceive again by stating 0-60 mph times, instead of the now industry norm of 0-100 km/h times (0-62 mph). They of course measure 0-100 km/h like everyone else but then miraculously remove as much as 7/10 ths of a second to work back to the U.S. preferred 0-60 mph time, which is quite a stretch, and frankly ridiculous. They do this to hide the fact that their cars are uncompetitive, however many times they try to boost the power of the behind-the-pace AJ-V8 engine, and however many times they add garish plastic addenda from 'Maxpower'.
If you want to see for your own eyes, rather than Autocar/JLR's Gaydon press office's lies, just how poor a performance car the XKR-S actually is, even with 550 PS, and a ridiculous, gouging price of £105k/$133k, read and watch the video of Motor Trend's current 2012 Best Driver's Car comparo:
http://www.motortrend.com/features/...best_drivers_car_contenders/jaguar_xkr_s.html
How is it that a real comparison test by MotorTrend shows this car up so badly, even with the presumably better handling, lighter Coupe version, and yet the 'journalists' at Autocar can put it ahead of a brand-new, ultra-engineered SL and a just-introduced, non plus ultra-powertrained M6? Come on, the only answer is Autocar are filthy liars. Everyone knows it - apparently except some people here. Hmm.
If you start to look, you'll see their lying and deception everywhere. Take the stated Jag's acceleration time. We know Autocar didn't actually time it and just stuck in what they thought would be the most flatterring. According to Jaguar themselves, from
www.jaguar.com, they don't even state a 0-62 mph time for the XKR-S Cabriolet, only for the Coupe version, which they say does 0-62 mph in 4.4 s. So where did Autocar get 4.2 s, for the presumably slower/heavier cabriolet, figure from? More BS? But of course. They had to make it look quicker than the 'dreaded Germans', to the uninitiated, union jack-waving, little englander, magazine-buying, gullible sap, who still believes Blighty still rules the waves! Hurrah! 'We gave the dreaded Hun a damn good kicking, with our over-the-hill, overpriced Indian-owned motor again, what!!'.
It's pathetic and transparent to even those with half an idea, but Haymarket and JLR still think, obviously, there's enough mental-deficients out there, with access to credit, who still fall for this tawdry garbage.
Just my 2 cents, of course!
You'll be an interesting one to watch I'm certain...
