Jaguar XF

The saloon that saved Jaguar gets 1 past circular of updates – but does it spell retired with a bang oregon a whimper? The Jaguar XF was introduced arsenic the car that promised to close the wrongs its institution had been suffering from for galore years.Soon after, this four-door saloon became 1 of its halfway models and went connected to save Jaguar from declining income and fiscal ruin. Many years and 2 generations on, it's a car we inactive like, not slightest due to the fact that of its class-leading handling, handsome styling and competitory pricing.This latest mentation promises to beryllium nary different, with subtly rejigged styling implicit the car it replaces, improved interior quality, a caller infotainment strategy and a simplified scope of engines.It was backmost successful 2021 that Jaguar archetypal chopped XE and XF prices successful alternatively eye-catching fashion. Since then, it has lone somewhat accrued the price, but a top-of-the-line XF inactive comes successful astatine astir £10,000 little than a like-for-like BMW 3 Series, and it's the aforesaid communicative with a full-house Mercedes C-Class (and, don’t forget, this was a car designed to vie with rivals from the people above). Suffice to say, the outlay for this car is astir the aforesaid arsenic you would wage for a middling electrical car.If you're looking for immoderate other practicality to lucifer the outgo savings available, you tin besides person the Jaguar XF Sportbrake, which we've reviewed separately.Has Jaguar yet got this car’s specification and worth positioning right then, conscionable as so galore institution car buyers person go wedded to the low-emissions electrified powertrains, tech-laden interiors and debased benefit-in-kind rates with which it can’t compete? Let's find out.The Jaguar XF saloon line-up astatine a glanceThere’s nary plug-in hybrid exemplary here, but the scope has been simplified compared with the pre-facelift line-up, with the enactment of 3 engines and 4 trim levels. There is simply a 200bhp 2.0-litre four-cylinder Ingenium diesel, which is the astir economical and the cheapest motor and the lone portion disposable connected the entry-level R-Dynamic S trim.Step up to mid-rung R-Dynamic SE Black and R-Dynamic HSE Black and you tin either person the 2.0-litre diesel oregon a 248bhp 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol successful P250 guise. Top-specification P300, meanwhile, comes with a 296bhp mentation of this 2.0-litre petrol. Neither petrol motor has the mild-hybrid assistance of the D200, though, nor the WLTP combined substance system of up to 56.9mpg - and lone the P300 adds four-wheel drive. Every motor is mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission.