Why?.....

[cerbman]

are the new XKR performance figures in Autocar comparitively disappointing compared to the S-Type R, which is heavier and less powerful.

[a8hex]

cerbman said:

are the new XKR performance figures in Autocar comparitively disappointing compared to the S-Type R, which is heavier and less powerful.

I wondered the same thing. They comment that the car they were testing had some electrical gremlins and that they couldn't turn off the traction control.

[NST]

two things that might be hampering acceleration, gearing and weight, the XKR that they tested weighed almost 1800kgs!

[mondeoman]

NST said:

two things that might be hampering acceleration, gearing and weight, the XKR that they tested weighed almost 1800kgs!

Jeeeesus thats lardy!

Whatever happened to light cars?

[cerbman]

NST said:

two things that might be hampering acceleration, gearing and weight, the XKR that they tested weighed almost 1800kgs!

The S-type R weighs that as standard.

[NST]

i sometimes wonder how light weight the new XK is sometimes.. the 20in wheels and sat nav can't weigh that much!

[cerbman]

Even the old 370bhp XKR pips the new one to 60 and the XJR of that era only loses by 0.1

Edited by cerbman on Friday 29th September 15:26

[silverspeed]

Perhaps political that PAG didn't want it to out perform the V8 Vantage? In the real world it will be fast enough for me!!!

[triple7]

silverspeed said:

Perhaps political that PAG didn't want it to out perform the V8 Vantage? In the real world it will be fast enough for me!!!

Except when some tosh in his M6 pulls up next to you at a set of lights!

Wait for the 5.0ltr.....................

G

[wongy]

Hmmm...
I've driven the new XKR and the performance is far from disappointing.
I can only assume that there was an issue of some sort with the car being tested. It is a prototype after all...

[a8hex]

wongy said:

Hmmm...
I've driven the new XKR and the performance is far from disappointing.
I can only assume that there was an issue of some sort with the car being tested. It is a prototype after all...

Autocar did say it had problems.
Looking at the other performance figures they clocked.

0->60 it wasn't happy 5.2s
0->100 11.8 matches the Bentley GT
30->70 4.3, well it's an auto so finding a match isn't to easy, but it beats the Bentley 4.6
50->70 2.5 again it beats the Bentley at 2.6

The 30 or 50 -> 70 figures can't be compared against the beemer since it's a manual so they time in gear and so get 3.6s & 7.1s (from an M6) for the same increments. The auto doesn't stay in the wrong gear.

The car Autocar had was a sick bunny, but why?

[cerbman]

Ah, well this makes sense now, ofcourse, it mustn't be seen to be faster than its mollycoddled stablemate, regardless of the fact that Jaguars sporting pedigree is historically far stronger. The sooner they seperate the better.

Edited by cerbman on Saturday 30th September 10:29

Edited by cerbman on Saturday 30th September 10:30

[triple7]

Amen.

[a8hex]

a8hex said:

cerbman said:

are the new XKR performance figures in Autocar comparitively disappointing compared to the S-Type R, which is heavier and less powerful.

I wondered the same thing. They comment that the car they were testing had some electrical gremlins and that they couldn't turn off the traction control.

Jaguar world comment that with all of the press cars you couldn't disable the traction control, but that you would be able to with the customer cars.

[kryten22uk]

a8hex said:

The car Autocar had was a sick bunny, but why?

I imagine that there had been loads of previous journalists thrashing the t!ts off it, and generally mistreating it, hence it not being it tiptop shape is understandable.

[cerbman]

kryten22uk said:

a8hex said:

The car Autocar had was a sick bunny, but why?

I imagine that there had been loads of previous journalists thrashing the t!ts off it, and generally mistreating it, hence it not being it tiptop shape is understandable.

The same could be said of any test car.