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After months of rumors, Jaguar has made it official: its new sports sedan will be called the Jaguar XF and it will make its public bow next fall, most likely at the 2007 Frankfurt motor show. The rise of the XF means the fall of the S-Type sedan in the automaker’s model lineup.

XF is being designed and developed at Jaguar's product center mothership in Coventry, England, and is scheduled to be built at Jaguar's Castle Bromwich facility in Birmingham, England.

Jaguar officials are boasting that XF will take the struggling brand in new directions, let’s hope that doesn’t mean another downward one. One thing is clear, it will be a different path than taken with S-Type (pictured), a solid vehicle that found little traction in the mid-size luxury segment and was arguably too conservative in its Jaguar heritage style.

Deliveries of the new Jaguar XF are expected by the spring of 2008, no word yet if the U.S. will be one of the first markets to get the new vehicle.

the front i ugllyyy.. looks really ugly, they tried to copy the Alfa Romeo grill, they failed, but the back is like every other XK out there, which is a good thing, looks nice.. but i doubt ut will look alot like that.. the updated model is coming in a few months isnt it?

Its a repost if I'm not mistaken.
Frankly, I prefer this one more than the S-Type if it looks like those photos. The new S-Type is just not my cup of tea.

XF won't help Jag much if it looks like that...

oh great...another wcf pic.jag will not make it looks so lame.still ygly.that 4 door saloon sure will boost jag sales if it looks nice.

I don't think it looks too bad. Although it defo has some typical Jaguar styling characteristics, it's taking a step in a new direction, and it seems to be more boldly styled. If this can be a seller, than it could help Jaguar get a little further out of the hole, and it would bring some goodness back to it's name.

the photos are of worldcarfans.com so they muist be fake photoshops the only thing thats real is that they are making one.
PHOTOS=CHOPS

I got it from another forum. the pics are impressions i think, and hopefully a verry bad one. the front has the Grill of the S-type, which is the biggest fault on that car IMO.
sorry if it's a repost. I haven't seen it round here before so.

the front looks like the foure design(spl?) black jack concept.

It doesn't look too good imo. I hope it will look more like this one:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1959/0609x2008jaguarstypefrokm1.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609x2008jaguarstypefrokm1. jpg)

wheredyu get that pic from? is that the real xf or a rendering?

It's an old cocnept, I think.

Those chops look really bad, but it's said to look really bad, so there might be some truth in those pictures!

rumors were out for quite some time already, but now jaguar actually confirmed them. that's why I posted this. the pics are probebly a at home photoshop-job.

wheredyu get that pic from? is that the real xf or a rendering?


I found it on automobile mag website and i think it's not xf but another one of great jaguar concept cars that never goes into production.

That's a photoshop...and it doesn't look very Jaguar-ish. It looks more like a 2010 Kia Magentis.

The engine ranges will be the best part about this car, because they will probably have good power, torque and refinement.

Interiors will be nice too, if the XK was anything to go by.

I'm still not convinced on the name though. XF sounds a little.....rusty. The only name suitable for this one is XS, that sounds upmarket and premium.

I hope the real one doesnt come out looking like the image above!

repost... i made this thread about a month ago, and also, the XF isnt going to look like that from the front, the grille will be more rectangular (as confirmed by my dad, whos tested the XF at Whitley)

^^get some pics dude....don't want to say nething more.

^^get some pics dude....don't want to say nething more.

hes not allowed to get photos of the cars inside the factory... he'd get kicked out of his job if he got caught

well how come everyone else made it thru the rain? hes just not so good at stealing pics...

Well, one thing's for sure. It won't look like that. After all, it will be designed by Ian Callum - a man in whose ability I have utter confidence. Personally, I think the current one looks good too, though.

ehh, not the best i've seen. But definately not the worst. Unless someone gave me one, i wouldnt drop the cash on it

repost... i made this thread about a month ago, and also, the XF isnt going to look like that from the front, the grille will be more rectangular (as confirmed by my dad, whos tested the XF at Whitley)Rectangular!? Ew, It will probably look even worse then. I'd hoped the design would reflect the E Type with some sort of oval grill.

Rectangular!? Ew, It will probably look even worse then. I'd hoped the design would reflect the E Type with some sort of oval grill.

That would be nice. With regards to 'rectangular', I think frewin means something along the lines of the grille of the XJ, as opposed to actually a rectangle. So it may not be so bad as it sounds.

It's already got the XK bottom, might as well have the face to go with. Do a rapide before Aston get to it.

The concept posted before was the RD-6, which was reallllly nice.

it's not that bad. the rear is typical XK which is ok and the front grill is acceptable, i think it's a leap forward from the S-type.

But how many will Jag sell?

its a chop, from a thread i made ago too about spy shots, but hell, thats a super ugly car, no one will buy it except when they have no choice

Everybody has a choice:

Take the red pill (cranberry juice), discover the real world, and buy a good car.

Take the blue pill (toilet duck), hahaha you drank toilet duck and need your stomach flushed, and somebody stole your identity and bought a jag XF photoshop ($1000000000000000000) while you were in hospital. hahahahahahaha. You were completely pwned!

I'd go for the red pill...

I don't think Jaguar will have any problems selling it. It won't beat Mercedes or BMW, but it won't make Jaguar go to shít.

I never liked jags, and this one only makes it worse.

When I was 14, I was talking to a guy who had a (then new) Jag s-type.
Me: nice old jag, there.
Him: Excuse me?!?
Me: I was looking at your jag, earls 1990s?
he simply walked away...
I had no clue what I had done to deserve that, until I went on the net later that day.

teaser form jaguar on the XF:

Jaguars always look better in real life than pictures. I'm going to withold my opinion until I see one in real life.

teaser form jaguar on the XF:Bleh. it looks like looks like the result of a drunken night between a DB9 and the early Maserati 3200 GT with boomerang-shaped tail lights.

It actually took me a quite a few minutes to figure out what part of the car it was. I thought it was a low side view of the the front bumber.

looks like the DB9 from the back, the lights...the side mirror looks quite cool, but i would have regular bigger ones, is it actually based on the looks of the aston martin DB9?

It's gonna be a four door, so it will look closer to the Rapide concept. It's using the detail with the door handle integrated in the C-pillar - now that leaves any Aston in the dust!

Bleh. it looks like looks like the result of a drunken night between a DB9 and the early Maserati 3200 GT with boomerang-shaped tail lights.

It actually took me a quite a few minutes to figure out what part of the car it was. I thought it was a low side view of the the front bumper.

Me too. Now that I realise what it actually is, it's starting to grow on me.

I liked it better when I thought it was a low side view of the front bumper though. It would've looked so cute and very futuristic... but aerodynamic as a bus.
From what we can see in the picture, it just looks like a cheap and less classy DB9.