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They don't need an expensive version of the sebring convertible, which is what the photochop looks like.

They need an honest-to-goodness mid-priced jaguar SPORTS CAR, exactly right to go after the Z4/Boxter. Smaller, lighter, faster, less expensive and luxurious than the XK, and english-styled. If they still use Ford sourced engines (since ford won't be liquidating ALL of their shares in Jag, just the majority) They could use the 3.5, TwinForce, or the AJ-V8, or even the supercharged version of the AJ-V8, in the premium /R model. In a 3000lb coupe or convertible. Sounds great, and if styled correctly, a winner.

BTW, for all the folks who would cry about undercutting the XK, The XK is a premium luxury grand tourer, not a 2-seat real sports car. It is hard/impossible to get one with a manual transmission, it is big, heavy, and has 4 seats. It is a nice car, but it is a grand tourer.

The production XF is only really dissappointing in the fact that it went vanilla on the front end. Keeping the angry-squint black eyes of the concept headlights would have fixed almost all of it. And it is completely possible.

The production XF headlights are low-beam projectors, and have a lot of spare plastic around them that could have been designed out to fade that hard upper scallop into the hood, and simply keeping the turned-down corners and slightly up-canted flat lower line, rather than turning *up* the corners... and it would have been fine. It would seem hardly a problem to tool for, and really has no bearing on the legality of the lights and reflectors.

The XF is vanilla compared to the concept, and the convertible chop is another "cruiser" concept, and hardly something that people would drool over, on their way to a Jaguar dealership.

Long live the XK-SS, C, D, and E types, as they have yet to be succeeded by a current production mass-market Jaguar. They should have built the XK180 concept car, as well. Even the XJR-15, and the XJ-220 were barely more than a few prototypes up for sale.]]>Sep 12th 2007 7:31PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/12/rendered-speculation-jaguar-xf-convertible/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/12/rendered-speculation-jaguar-xf-convertible/Sep 12th 2007 7:45PM