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By petrolhead, Wed 3 Sep at 10:49am 
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Undoubtedly a brilliant car, but am I alone in thinking it has more than a whiff of Ford about it? It just looks cheap alongside the competition; there is no hiding it's heritage.

As for the chrome, the finish is all wrong - too shiny, too plastic looking; it's all a little too, erm, chigwell.

Everytime I look at one, I can't help thinking, stick a blue oval badge on it and we could be looking at a 21st century Scorpio.

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By loki, Wed 3 Sep at 11:16am 
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I'm not a fan of it either, I don't get the big hype about it. Don't think it looks very good and having seen one in the flesh, it feels like a fancy mondeo more than an out and out Jag.

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By greg, Wed 3 Sep at 11:19am 
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the jag design doesn;'t seem to evolved a whole lot. they seem to be still trying to ride on the sucess of their old cars.

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By Jimmie, Wed 3 Sep at 11:22am 
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greg wrote:

the jag design doesn;'t seem to evolved a whole lot. they seem to be still trying to ride on the sucess of their old cars.



The E-type is still the best design classic, and still looks awesome in spite of being almost as old as me !

Edited Wed 3 Sep at 11:23am

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By greg, Wed 3 Sep at 11:44am 
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it's about as stylish as 70's interior design

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By Ben, Wed 3 Sep at 11:50am 
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greg wrote:

the jag design doesn;'t seem to evolved a whole lot. they seem to be still trying to ride on the sucess of their old cars.



Eh? The XF is a giant leap forward in terms of Jag design of the last two decades.

I initially didn't like the XF, but think it can look good on big wheels, and in dark colours (navy, black, dark grey). But, it is still very Mondeo/Lexus/Aston like, and think the headlights are just wrong.

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By oscarricher, Wed 3 Sep at 1:30pm 
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it looks like a 90's American car Chrylar (sp?!!) maybe with that grill. In right spec it looks ok, but otherwise nah...then again Jags seem to age well so give it a year or to and i might say it looks good

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By Ben, Wed 3 Sep at 1:35pm 
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oscarricher wrote:

it looks like a 90's American car Chrylar (sp?!!) maybe with that grill. In right spec it looks ok, but otherwise nah...then again Jags seem to age well so give it a year or to and i might say it looks good



You can talk, defecting from a MINI to a Prius! Pfffttttt.....

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By loki, Wed 3 Sep at 3:02pm 
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Ben wrote:

oscarricher wrote:

it looks like a 90's American car Chrylar (sp?!!) maybe with that grill. In right spec it looks ok, but otherwise nah...then again Jags seem to age well so give it a year or to and i might say it looks good



You can talk, defecting from a MINI to a Prius! Pfffttttt.....



Please say this isn't true? I'm no big fan of Minis, but a Prius?

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By Ben, Wed 3 Sep at 3:29pm 
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loki wrote:



Please say this isn't true? but a Prius?



That's what I thought too! :-P

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