A replacement item will be sent as soon as the damaged item is returned to us. If after 28 days you have not received your item, please contact us on: delivery delays occur that are out of our control however we will do our best to locate your parcel and if it has not been received within 14 days, a replacement will be sent subject to stock.Īny items damaged upon receipt must be reported to us within 24 hours of delivery. Orders that are posted to non UK addresses can take up to 28 days to arrive. Please note, Royal Mail First Class Post is not guaranteed next day delivery and can take between 1-5 working days to arrive. Delivery is guaranteed for the next working day.Īll orders placed by 6pm are posted the next working day via Royal Mail First Class Post. If you have upgraded your delivery to Royal Mail Special Delivery, your order will be posted the next working day if placed by 6pm. If you would like to track your order, please contact us for your tracking number. All orders places on Thursday after 6pm, Fri, Sat & Sun will be posted on Monday morning.Īll orders are posted via Courier delivery which can take between 1 - 5 working days unless otherwise stated. Styling and interior ambience are Jag's other strong suits.Terms and conditions of the sale Delivery:Īll orders placed by 6 pm are posted the next working day Mon-Thu. The EPAs come in at 16 city and 24 highway. Zero to 60 is achieved in a follicle over six seconds, and both top out at 155 m.p.h. As a consequence, the cars' identical drivetrains afford virtually identical performance and mileage numbers. It does this with a little help from its friends, which include direct fuel injection, high compression, and a supercharger nestled neatly in the V cavity between the cylinder banks.Īndy Dobson, chief engineer for both cars, told me that while the XJ is larger than the 4,125-pound XF, it weighs about the same thanks to a more extensive use of aluminum. This V-6, the only engine available in the XF and XJ with AWD, is a sophisticated devil that squeezes 340 horsepower from a mere three liters. In addition to being fitted with all these new components, the all-wheel-drivers are powered by a new-for-2013 engine. Small wonder the AWD feature tacks some $3,000 on the price tag. New steering gear was employed to replicate the steering feel of the rear-drive cars. The front suspension was fitted with new springs, shock absorbers, and antiroll bars. A new front subframe and cross member had to be designed, as well as new engine mounts, fuel lines, hoses, and air intakes. The eight-speed ZF automatic transmission had to be modified to play host to the transfer case that routes the power to the front wheels. But with the increased front split in the winter setting, its ability to anticipate and react to the slippery patches is enhanced.Įngineering a system like this was a considerable undertaking, since so much of the original rear-drive hardware had to be redesigned to accept the AWD components. In either setting, the system is capable of routing all the power to the front or rear wheels if conditions dictate. Switch the setting to winter and the power apportionment, or torque split, becomes 30 percent front and 70 percent rear. The system has several settings, including "normal" and "winter." In normal, nearly all of the engine's power (95 percent) is routed to the rear wheels, so the car retains its traditional Jaguar rear-drive feel. While hardly an early arrival to the AWD party, Jaguar, by leaning on the considerable all-wheel-drive expertise of its corporate kinsman, Land Rover, has come up with a pretty nifty system. The XJ four-wheeler is already in showrooms. The XF and XJ AWD models are new for 2013. But they certainly could if they wanted to. Few people are going to take their new AWD XFs and XJs - which start at $53,000 and $76,700, respectively - out for a romp on the sandy thoroughfares of New Jersey's Pine Barrens.
I found the XF I drove on a loose-sand road to be quite sure-footed. (Jaguar expects the all-wheel-drive model to account for 80 percent of XF sales in the snow-prone Northern states.) And, of course, they had the added traction that makes all-wheelers so beloved on slippery roads. The AWD renditions of the midsize XF and large XJ, which I got to play with during a recent Jaguar show-and-tell, proved as delightful to drive on-road as their rear-drive siblings. Which means that even though I was in a saloon, I wasn't drinking when I was driving the new all-wheel-drive versions of the Jaguar XF and XJ. If it is imported from England, it is a saloon. If your four-door is imported from Detroit, it is called a sedan.
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