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boy Jaguar makes a lot of cars these days you've got XE XF XJ XK f-type let's drive the best seller of them although this is the XF 3 litre supercharged v6 on the Sport trim and check the 10 XF scum in this kind of dizzying array of configurations there's a 2 liter inline turbo 4 then you've got these 3 litre supercharged v6 s in all-wheel drive our front-wheel drive then above this you've got 3 variants of 5 liter v8 each with different levels of performance and power there's also a sport brake wagon style but that doesn't come to the US because we're so in love with SUVs and crossovers and Jaguars got one of those coming as well now our XF is very middle of the pack we've got the 3 litre v6 supercharged rear wheel drive only in this case and we have the Sport Edition that means we get a little lip spoiler on the trunk we get some door seal aero add-ons and these very cool looking 20 inch throwback alloys now Jaguar has been given to doing goofy in their car lately you turn the thing on and these motorised vent doors open up and this gearshift knob rises to your hand for no good reason just because they can here is the head unit that is standard in this XF including navigation rear camera a lot of good things happen here without any optional cost on the other hand it's a dated interface it's relatively small and it's relatively squared I will give it good marks though for quick touch response this is one of the best systems I've driven lately in terms of getting a touch quickly and getting it right the first time but compared to the beauty of this cabin which is kind of restrained and elegant this is an ugly little mess you've got gradients on the buttons you've got synthetic chrome highlights to give you a supposed convex shape you've got double line boxes around everything it's busy and not terribly glanceable to my eye now as good as that touch response is voice command is also good and bad it's very clear and crisp you just say what's on the screen and it seems to get it every time on the other hand it's not a free-form system and you give it an address in one big gulp you got to go bucket by bucket by bucket media choices you're not really missing anything with HD radio satellite radio USB here you've got bluetooth streaming of course what's not in this car though is an app based environment nothing for media streaming and no live search to power your navigation either now in terms of drive controls right behind the start/stop button you've got this large controller that is your transmission control and you've got a sport mode as part of that paddle shifters on the wheel and you've got a dynamic mode here to really get things more gutsy and dial back stability control but beyond that it's not terribly complex in terms of how you can set up its personality now up here in the engine bay as I mentioned we've got the three liter v6 supercharged car this is kind of the middle of the powertrain lineup if you will and the sweet spot for most buyers the numbers are good 340 horse three hundred and twenty-two pound-feet of torque gets this nearly 4,000 pound car up to 60 and 5.7 seconds while delivering 18 28 mpg and in all variants the only transmission is the HP automatic now the first thing I do in the XF no offence jag is turn off this eco mode because that disables auto start/stop and a car like this that is so smoothly engineered it's really marring of its ride to have it on the next thing you notice is this car has really smooth right now power and plenty of it ergo is generally good all around the car things fall where I want them they've got a nice layout to the center console I will say this some of the horses thickest centre pillars in the biz are right here I mean you can you can lose another car in one of these under the right circumstances so three impressions overall the power comes on super smooth very willing and breathless thank you to super charging secondly the transmission is very buttery but also avoids being sloppy and while it handles well as an overall chassis it retains a Jaguar quality that does mean though it comes a little unglued at the edges you'll enjoy driving this car all day long you just won't like it so much if you're trying to Canyon race an m5 now pricing our XF about fifty eight thousand dollars out the door in this sport shrimp now because of that we have the 20 inch alloy wheels that look great we actually have a lesser audio system you could add all-wheel drive to either v6 for twenty seven hundred dollars but aside from doing that it's a fifty eight thousand dollar car CS stop