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hi I'm Wayne Cunningham here at the 2014 paris motor show getting our first look at the dagger XP the jagger XE is actually the least exciting and most exciting of the dagger cars at this show the reason why it's the most exciting is because it competes with cars like the BMW 3 Series and audi a4 if dagger is first car to compete in this midsize sedan segment it's also least exciting because when you compared to the other cars in the dagger range it's the most pedestrian we have three different engines for the Jaguar XE for the dagger xes we get a supercharged 3 liter 6 cylinder that's the same engine is in the base dagger f-type that does 340 horsepower pretty powerful engine for this car then we also get a four-cylinder turbocharged with direct injection they have two levels of that one does 240 horsepower and one does 200 horsepower the body is actually 75% aluminium that's quite a bit for this segment you don't really find other mid-size sedan cars with this much aluminum in their body structure now being a Jaguar it's got a very comfortable interiors let's take a look inside we've got typical Jaguar driveline components inside the cabin here for example we have this dial controller for the 8-speed automatic transmission you'll find that in plenty of other jaguar cars we have these mode buttons here for sport and eco and then we have this entirely new head unit here this is entirely new system that will probably see roll out to other jaguar cars we have a tiled interface on an 8-inch touchscreen we've got radio phone navigation and climate control in sort of four quadrant design I hit the navigation button for example brings up the map this nice-looking 3d perspective map go back to home beyond these basic functions I can also push the side button and get some other functions here we have in control apps that's actually a new app suite that will integrate your smartphone with the car we have a Wi-Fi hotspot we have a surround view camera system we should also have a laser head up display system here that's a new dagger feature as well we won't be able to see that now but hopefully when we get this car in for review we can check that out the Jagger XE will be available to world markets next year in 2015 but we won't get it in the United States until 2016 and that will probably only be the xes with the supercharged engine I'm Wayne Cunningham here at the 2014 paris auto show you