Jaguar will not try to match the Mercedes’ AMG or the BMW M performance models with its R designation models which trail the German models, which are nudging up and over the 500-hp mark, The Car Connection (TCC) website reported.
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“I don’t think we’re going to join the Germanic power struggle,” TCC cited David Scholes, director of the X350 programme which developed the new aluminium-bodied XJ saloon, as saying.
Scholes told TCC that, with a 390-hp supercharged V-8, the newest XJ-R won’t be in the slouch category. By cutting the weight of the larger body by 440 pounds, the R version of the flagship sedan will manage 0-60 mph times of 5.0 seconds, Jaguar claims.
