Comments Jaguar XKR Coupe - Gadget - review

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Bluepork

9:37 AM on 2 December, 2009

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Great review, Riyad. I imagine that many people, like myself, enjoy reading this kind of review, even though we can't afford a car of this class. It's nice to dream, and to have aspirations!

It would be interesting to know what your own point of reference is though. When you say "I can't help but feel slightly underwhelmed when I slide into the driver's seat of my own car" what car is that? This is not such a meaningful statement if your own car is a Ford Escort.

;-)

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Ed

10:40 AM on 2 December, 2009

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He does mention later on in the review. He owns a Porsche 911 Carrera S 997. The lucky sod.

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Rich 42c5

10:40 AM on 2 December, 2009

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Riyad's car -

Specs include -

Poo brown

Missing hub cap

wet dog odor

leaking sun roof

cassette deck

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Stewart

11:59 AM on 2 December, 2009

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That Maestro isn't even an 'MG' version!

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dev

1:16 PM on 2 December, 2009

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*sigh* we can but dream...and with six years of university loans to repay I think dreams are the only place I'll ever drive a car like this! Great review as usual. Perhaps the reason people compare the Aston and Jag is that the DB7/DB9 and the XK/XKR were designed by Ian Callum and were based on the same XJS platform. I can't remember for sure but they may even have shared engines!

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Riyad

2:06 PM on 2 December, 2009

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@dev - The DB7 and origninal XK shared the same platform. I'm not sure that they shared engines though.

@Rich - now you've spoiled everything. And there was I pretending that I knew something about cars :(

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dev

3:50 PM on 2 December, 2009

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@Riyad Fair play, cheers for the info! Still...you wouldn't complain if you got any one of them would you ;)

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Williamn

4:17 PM on 2 December, 2009

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Riyad's CV in brief:

- Ran the labs at PC Pro

- Editor in Chief at PC World Magazine

"He also hired and trained many of the IT journalists that populate the industry today."

Sounds less like luck and more like career dedication to me!

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purephase

5:20 PM on 2 December, 2009

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I had a spin in one of these a couple of months ago... the ICE was very good, and it's one of the best in car sat-navs I've used. The DAB was rubbish, but that's probably as much a problem with the signal in my area. And the B&W stereo... oh yes.

The thing did seem a bit overpowered for the chassis/setup to me, and the build quality of the interior was average, but it's an awesome machine.

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SRS

6:25 PM on 2 December, 2009

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@purephase: "the build quality of the interior was average" - what car would you rate as having above average interior build quality?

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Andy0d2

10:32 PM on 2 December, 2009

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On a completely different note anyone realised that rich added a picture comment - I believe this is a first for TR

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purephase

10:33 PM on 2 December, 2009

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@SRS

Don't get me wrong - I really liked the car. The interior was well laid out and the materials are good, but it just didn't seem that well put together. I think the usual German rivals are better in that respect, which is not to say I'd choose them in preference!

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Greg17b

12:13 AM on 3 December, 2009

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@dev - we can but only dream...

Have a look though. Whilst the in car technology might not be up to spec with this review, you can easily pick up a Jag XK 4.0 V8 supercharged with well under 100k miles for less than 10 grand these days. You'll have to go back to a Y plate or so, but they are out there.

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dev

11:13 AM on 3 December, 2009

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@Greg

And get it insured for two lads aged 23 (+ 3 points) and 20 years? Hehe thanks for the suggestion anyway, perhaps I'll suggest it to my dad as a mid-life-crisis gift to himself that I can 'share' :)

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purephase

11:43 AM on 3 December, 2009

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@dev

If you're having a slow afternoon stick your info in for a quote - I could use a laugh ;)

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Hugo

11:57 AM on 3 December, 2009

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I could get insured on this XKR for a mere £5600. 21, three years' no claims bonus.

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Guye0a

1:15 PM on 28 December, 2009

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If you splash down £72,400.00 for the car a mere £5600 to insure it is just some additional pocket change ;)

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