Jaguar XJ Supercharged 5.0 Supersport

2010-11-11




The Jaguar XJ was first introduced in 1968. Since then the car as a flagship model range. We are now the fourth generation of the XJ arrived. All the old thoughts on board and the new board. Ian Cullum is responsible for the XJ last year at the Saatchi Gallery in London unveiled live on the Internet by Jay Leno and Elle Macpherson. The fact that Jaguar is a live internet streaming on the website would give a sign that a new road they were broken. Revealing the XJ was therefore everything is clear. It was different and it is different. The XJ is very different than all his predecessors. Longer, wider and more impressive. The typical Jaguar feeling is restored. The design is stately. The front is a little like the XF, but the headlamp units are smaller and the grill is larger. Everything for generating an aggressive impression. At the back we see something new that Jaguar had never shown. The rear lights are like the claws of stripes that have drawn a Jaguar. Striking and daring, but no less successful. The XJ can be ordered with three different engines. The three-liter V6 diesel, the five-liter V8, supercharged V8 and five liters. The last variant, we set out. This engine is spooned into the extended Jaguar XJ Supersport. A tough machine with 510 hp and 625 Nm.

XJ Supersport is clearly not motorized. The same engine we know of Land Rover Range Rover 5.0 V8 Supercharged, but the V8 in the Jaguar is more advantage. Not so crazy when you consider that with more than 600 pounds are less step. The whole runs smoother and has fewer problems with the car going. In only a small dose of gas you hear a nice roll of the V8 in the front and comes under the XJ slowly. However, the car in full throttle kicking an entirely different character. The supercharger screams out of pleasure and the engine works hard to be as hard as the gasoline. Highly illegal speeds are reached quickly. The XJ is at most 250 km / h. But this speed is quickly reached with 510 horsepower on board. The sprint to 100 km / h is completed in 4.9 seconds. Even when full acceleration is a party in the XJ. Wind noise is barely present and the roar of the V8 drowns out everything, but for a real petrolhead, no problem. Want to hear the roar it's just a matter of less throttle and normal Drive mode check box. The engine runs in its lowest possible speed, and therefore there is no problem anymore air. Although the XJ is not a true sports car but a luxury limousine, there is still a sport mode on the vessel. You have the normal sports mode, but also the sport setting where the famous flag finish of Jaguar to be switched on by two seconds and hold this button. The fully digital instrumentation discolored than from the normal quiet green to bright red rimmed counters. By enabling this setting you know it's serious about the car and now expects therefore that you disable them. The switch is therefore not as smooth and more nearly complete with sledgehammer blows. This race has been fun, but much faster, the XJ is not. The merde of the time we also have the normal Drive mode are enabled. Simply because it should be in a comfortable car like this. XJ sent immediately and can calm traffic during maneuvering. The feeling of an almost five meters long limousine is not present. It comes with ease.