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this is the 2015 Jaguar XJ L portfolio all-wheel drive now it's a little bit longer than the standard XJ which means that it's a little bit heavier and a little bit slower and a little bit less nimble and why would you want to pay more money for a car that had left performance let's hop in the back seats and I'll show you exactly why now the five inches of additional length pretty much translates directly into five more inches of legroom so you've got a lot of room to kind of spread out back here particularly this seat right here the rear passenger side seat which has a little bit of control over the front passenger seat if nobody's sitting there you can actually move it out of the way and give yourself a little bit more legroom so you can really stretch out particularly with the seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollar premium rear seat systems ability to tilt and recline these rear seats like we're doing right here you can get real comfortable back here and if that's not enough we've got a couple of different settings for heating and massage on both of these back buckets now that premium system is also going to add these two ten inch screens that you see right here that are going to give us some sort of control over infotainment and things like route previews if we're navigating we've also got these fold out trays on the seat backs which are at a perfect height for a laptop in case you want to get some work done or maybe play on your laptop when you're on your way to where you're going of course the back seats are the best seats in the house but we haven't forgot the front seat let's hop up there now we haven't forgotten about the driver in the xjl portfolio has a lot of creature comforts that are going to make the front seat a very comfortable place to be as well including these really nice leather seats that are going to include heated and cooled surfaces we've also got an $800 massage package it's going to add a little bit of back rub in up here too so I'm comfortable while I'm driving now in the desk where we've got a pair of screens front and center we've got a digital instrument cluster that it's not really my favorite digital instrument cluster I don't really like the fake chrome on here but design is subjective and that's just my opinion and down in the center stack we've got Jaguars 8-inch touchscreen navigation system which is seeing a lot of upgrades over the years since the XJ has been introduced but those are just mostly styling upgrades the organization is still a little bit complicated there's still a lot of buttons on the screen and in a given time and it still kind of has this weird gradient look to it everything just looks a little over designed now we've seen that the next generation of the system is coming and we're really looking forward to that but as we are right here it's starting to look a little bit long in the tooth now what you can get past the organization design you do have a lot of nice things such as a full set of digital media sore is we've got an 825 watt Meridian audio system here that sounds fantastic and we've also got navigation with traffic it's not the most accurate traffic but it will route around incidence and that's good now under the hood you'll find a three liter supercharged v6 engine putting out 340 horsepower and 332 Talon tative torque now that's not an overwhelming amount of power but it is definitely an adequate amount of power in a vehicle like this where speed is not the thing comfort is now that is going to be made it with an 8-speed automatic transmission putting power to all four wheels in this example and the shifts you get from that automatic transmission are very crisp we've got paddle shifters we've got a sport mode we've even got a dynamic mode if you really want to go fast but even in its most sporty settings it doesn't really feel like a very responsive car it's not that it's hesitating it's not that the gearbox has been giving you the shifts when you need and that the steering isn't giving you the inputs when you want them it's just a lot of math to move around and there's not much that you can really do about that so there's going to be a little bit of lag thanks physics now from a comfort standpoint though this car is very well sorted we're at highway speeds right now it's a very quiet ride we're just kind of floating over all of the engines in the road and whenever we hit a crack in the asphalt there's no jarring sort of coming up through the suspension just a little subtle thump thump but you won't really even hear you're in the backseat enjoying the loud Meridian Audio stereo system while you get a massage from your heated reclining seat now the 2015 Jaguar X Dale starts at about eighty four thousand seven hundred bucks but there are some options to consider for example if you wanted an any color other than black car whites or silver it's about fifteen hundred bucks for this British racing green the xjl is a good car to drive but it's an even better car to be driven in particular at least ninety six thousand six hundred fifty dollar example with the very awesome rear seat amenities now if you're the kind of person who drives around VIPs or you just want to be the best uber driver in your area this is probably the car for you you