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Laura Berry
Senior Journalist
15 Mar 2017
10 min read

Richard Berry road tests and reviews the new Jaguar XF R-Sport 25t with specs, fuel consumption and verdict.

Jaguar’s XF was the British brand’s comeback car when it arrived in 2008 - the same year Indian company Tata bought Jaguar from Ford. Everything for Jaguar was good again (well good for once). 

See, its new wealthy owners began pouring all the money in the world into development and facilities, design god Ian Callum was on the start of a roll and the cars were as British as ever, being built on the site of an old World War II Spitfire factory in Castle Bromwich, England. 

There was one problem. The XF was built on the same platform as the S-Type (remember the Jag that looked like an old one but wasn’t? Yeah, that one). So even though it was gorgeous, it handled like a 1999 Ford Lincoln, because it more or less was one underneath.

Read the full Jaguar XF R-Sport 25t 2017 review .