http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/ Autoblog Comments for Is the cat back? 10,000 orders placed for Jaguar XF http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Feb 18th 2008 1:55PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Feb 18th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/
]]>Feb 18th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Feb 18th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Feb 18th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Feb 18th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://goodcarbadcar.blogspot.com/2007/10/endless-nissan-gt-r-hype.html) and praise surrounding the car would lead you to believe it's the best thing since sliced bread. It was the same with the Malibu, good cars in their own right; worthy of consumer's money, but the best?]]>Feb 18th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/
Other than that, I think the XF has a lot going for it (although Jaguar really need to make some new engines...)

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Just as a test, as my girlfriend of 13 years and I were walking down Embarcadero where Jag/Land Rover were holding a "release party", I pointed at the XF (with tacky LED uplighting underneath) and said "What do you think of that car?" without letting on what it was. She approached it from the back, up the rear 3/4 view, along the side when - I kid you not - she proclaimed "It looks like a Ford". Once she got around to the nose she commented that she liked the grill, but the headlights looked "weird" and the creases in the hood looked like "it's trying too hard".

I pointed out "it's the new Jag" and her nose wrinkled. She asked where the leaping cat was and I pointed to the new circle emblem in the grill which she didn't like at all. She did note that the outline of the side windows from the profile appeared "jag like", but more like an imitation than legitimate design inspiration.

Her last comment, posed as a question: "That's the replacement for the X-Type, right?". Nope, it's a replacement for the S-Type, honey. Here response - "It looks like they cut a lot of corners." - ouch. I pointed out that the entire was sumptuous and the cool "power up" process that the controls go through and, to be blunt, she didn't care: "They should have made it look better".

And this from a gal who loves their "gorgeous" advertising campaign in all her fashionista rags (ugh). She keeps asking me where the "gorgeous" jags are, and I keep showing her the new XK and (now) XF and she thinks I'm wrong.

Last point - I showed her the XF prototype when we got home as a comparison and she said (sigh) "Now that looks hot."
]]>Feb 18th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Feb 18th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Mar 13th 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Of course, a salesman will say anything, but I'll be test driving one up my steep driveway in an ice storm before I plunk down for one. Also no wood steering wheels, the J-gate is history and kiss the leaper bonnet ornament goodbye. Is it really a Jaguar now; have they beaten the "Jaguariness" out of it? Hopefully not and I hope the car is a smashing success because everything else is just to bloody boring and looks the same.]]>Feb 18th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/
I can only hope the same fate doesn't befall the Hyundai Genesis Coupe.]]>Feb 18th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/
The XK is attractive though.

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Here response... = Her Response...
I pointed out that the entire was sumptuous... = I pointed out that the interior was sumptuous...]]>Feb 18th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/Feb 18th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/18/is-the-cat-back-10-000-orders-placed-for-jaguar-xf/
http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Default.aspx?mcat=148203

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