Few brands carry more historical luggage than Jaguar, which has been struggling for years to drag the trad British sports tourer into the age of satnav. But great news! The Yanks have flogged the cat to the Indians, who plan to leave the Brits in charge. And the new cars are real BMW-botherers...
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XF
£30,250 - £63,980
Replacing the talented but unloved S-Type, the XF pings Jaguar into the 21st century. Smoothness meets tech - rather like Jeremy Irons presenting Tomorrow's World.
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XFR
Quite brilliant from Jaguar. The XF-R is everything that you could want it to be, except possibly for the exhaust note.
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XJ Series
£54,630 - £92,480
Jaguar finally makes the first real change of its XJ since 1968 - a risk worth taking. Defines a space all of its own, shot through with the spirit of an XK.
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XK
£58,380 - £74,380
Massively symbolic of Jaguar's new dawn - a sublime GT with looks and dynamics that send a fat shiver down the spine of Aston Martin's V8 Vantage. Seriously.
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X-Type
£21,316 - £30,241
A hopelessly misguided attempt to propel Jaguar into the mainstream, this Mondeo-clone saloon nearly bankrupted the whole company. Not long for this world.
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X-Type Estate
£22,691 - £31,781
Jag: a brand that marks you out as a creature of sophistication and true British morals. Unless you go for an X-Type estate, which marks you out as a Mondeo man in denial.
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