Yes sir, bloody hell it was to me when the guy explained the features. Was I driving in medieval transports so far? For a while I so despised the moment when I denied the driver and decided to drive all by myself for 2 days. But then, the tiny Schumacher in me came calling and couple of kilometres on ODO, my loins were ready to squeal 3.0 litre V6.
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| Jaguar XF |
My first try on automatics, had to be a 650 km stretch on a 6 million Jag. 36 hours later I sit here typing, becoming totally pro of automatics. For as long as I remember, I despised the very person who came up with automatic gear boxes. I was like why would anyone want to let go of power control? As admitted earlier only medieval thinkers drive medieval transports. Although this Jag had a manual control as well, but automatics are bloody comfortable man! The gear shift control in XF is with levers right under the steering wheel, just like a Ferrari. The response of car is awesome - carries the capacity to give you an acceleration jerk even while cruising at 80kmph. Although, I was not too comfortable with vehicle stability at speeds of 180kmph, but it sure glides at 160kmph. Fuel efficiency was amazingly similar to my Ford truck. With that kinda motor under the hood, I dont mind couple of liters going overboard. The interiors bear nice soothing leather, with a decent leg space for a lounger as me. Boot space is ok, then again don't take Jag XF for a luggage dump.
Owning a Harley has made me used to fan attention on roads, although there were not many who could make out the XF beast. The ones who did - as usual - had Mobile Photography as their hobby. Surely, Jag XF deserved remark from a Merc owner in Karnal - Nice car !
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