Tata Group owned Jaguar announced a few details and released an official ‘teaser’ of the redesigned XJ, due to make make its public debut in London this July, at the Shanghai Auto Show on Monday.

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Managing director Mike O’Driscoll confirmed that the “all-new” XJ would go on sale at the end of 2009 after its 9 July launch.


It will be the first car with the automaker’s next-generation aerospace-inspired aluminium body architecture. Engine options will include the recently updated diesel V6 (a product of a Ford-PSA engine JV) and the flagship version’s 510bhp supercharged V8.
In keeping with XJ tradition dating back to the early 1970s, there will be a choice of standard or long wheelbase models.


Options will include a panoramic glass roof.

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