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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I'm impressed with the MPG which is representative of 'give and take' driving. On a long (very) gentle run, she will manage anything up to 28 MPG. .At Santa Pod she managed 7 MPG.


I apply Sonax Polymer Netshield twice a year which keeps her nice and shiny without anything more than car shampoo and a soft drying cloth.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Pictures taken with a ten quid Nokia 108 dumb phone so don't show the car in it's best light.

[TheBoy]

Certainly scrubs up nicely

[tunnie]

Do like XF's 

Ver nice 

[TD]

Doesn't the Jag come with built in sat nav? or is that well thumbed playboy magazine in the front passenger seat pocket   

Looks nice apart from that 

[Shackeng]

I assume you like the car. Any comments on it to the negative, as I am looking at one at the moment?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Doesn't the Jag come with built in sat nav? or is that well thumbed playboy magazine in the front passenger seat pocket   

Looks nice apart from that 

That is a copy of Fiesta 'readers wives special'. But yes it does have Sat Nav, albeit nothing like as good as the Vauxhall.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I assume you like the car. Any comments on it to the negative, as I am looking at one at the moment?

More niggles rather that criticism. The poor sat nav being one of them.

Lovely to drive and well screwed together.

[TheBoy]

I assume you like the car. Any comments on it to the negative, as I am looking at one at the moment?

I took a 3l petrol for an extended test drive.  A nice car to drive, but I had real issues with the seats in the base spec Luxury model after about 2 hours.  But everyone is different, so try one and see.

Compared to Omega, limited rear seat headroom, and boot is a bit smaller.

A lot of seemingly simple functions, like seat heaters, are via the touchscreen, which is a bit more fart arsy around than just a button.

Facelifted models (approx. 2012 onwards) have the ever annoying, irritating, and frankly irresponsible stupid stop-start system to appease the great unwashed treehuggers. But better satnav etc.  And I believe all facelift have HID headlights.


Certainly a nice car, and certainly still on my list as a possible replacement.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I assume you like the car. Any comments on it to the negative, as I am looking at one at the moment?

I took a 3l petrol for an extended test drive.  A nice car to drive, but I had real issues with the seats in the base spec Luxury model after about 2 hours.  But everyone is different, so try one and see.

Compared to Omega, limited rear seat headroom, and boot is a bit smaller.

A lot of seemingly simple functions, like seat heaters, are via the touchscreen, which is a bit more fart arsy around than just a button.

Facelifted models (approx. 2012 onwards) have the ever annoying, irritating, and frankly irresponsible stupid stop-start system to appease the great unwashed treehuggers. But better satnav etc.  And I believe all facelift have HID headlights.


Certainly a nice car, and certainly still on my list as a possible replacement.

....tell me about it.


Good points......excellent brakes, handling, and ride (even with twenty inch wheels) Not board hard like some of the Germans. Relatively quick and reasonable economy. Big boot.
Front seats are excellent on XFR model.

Bad points........what TB said about the fiddly bits. Poor rear leg room especially for taller drivers. Cooled seats are crap. Seat heaters work only slightly better.

Overall 8/10. I like it.

 

[Mr Gav]

Very nice Lord Opti 

[2boxerdogs]

Very nice indeed Opti bet it sounds terrific.

[Entwood]

Was looking at one of  these as a possible towcar .. but petrol ones (suitable for LPG) seem to be very rare ...

http://www.jaguar.co.uk/news/tow-car-2016-awards.html

[tunnie]

Was looking at one of  these as a possible towcar .. but petrol ones (suitable for LPG) seem to be very rare ...

http://www.jaguar.co.uk/news/tow-car-2016-awards.html

That's because diesel would be far more suitable for towing, also the boot on the XF in my view is small. A LPG tank in there would make it barley big enough for a ruck sack. It's very narrow, heavily restricting it. Little Miss T's pram plus other bits had no chance.

I was gutted as I was looking at 10 Plate 3.0d's - It was a serious contender, shame about the boot.

[Entwood]

Was looking at one of  these as a possible towcar .. but petrol ones (suitable for LPG) seem to be very rare ...

http://www.jaguar.co.uk/news/tow-car-2016-awards.html

That's because diesel would be far more suitable for towing, also the boot on the XF in my view is small. A LPG tank in there would make it barley big enough for a ruck sack. It's very narrow, heavily restricting it. Little Miss T's pram plus other bits had no chance.

I was gutted as I was looking at 10 Plate 3.0d's - It was a serious contender, shame about the boot.

not necessarily so ... If the caravan / car are correctly matched, loaded and driven properly, there is little difference between them. The LPG tank size would be a problem though I agree ....