Jaguar XKR-S, an ultimate sports car

Dear Jaguar lovers, XKR-S came into existence as a result of great struggle and hard work that Jaguar motor company was doing from many years to achieve best compliments from customers and even viewers. The XKR-S badge was first used on the 2008 special edition XK. Now, Jaguar launched XKR-S 2012 model with all the graces abound with. The beautiful XKR-S has everything that a car lover could wish for; I mean a driver-focused technology, assertive, sporting design and luxury that a Jaguar owner deserves.

A 5.0 litre V8 supercharged engine of XK range makes the new XKR-S one of the most powerful Jaguars ever made, with an increased power output of 550PS and maximum torque of 680Nm. Top speed of XKR-S is 186mph (300kph) with acceleration from 0 to 60mph in just 4.2 seconds (0–100kph in 4.4 seconds). But not only speed, the amazing designing strategy of Jaguar’s design department makes the new XKR-S an artifact of power and beauty.

Well, it is believed that the ‘Control’ is one of the key performance elements of any vehicle, and you’ll like to know that in order to give an amazing control to the new XKR-S, Jaguar provided a combination of lightweight aluminum body construction and revised suspension settings, these re-engineered front suspension features are capable to enhance camber and castor stiffness for precisely steer the car with greater driver-connection and responsiveness. And not just the front suspension, the rear suspension design of XKR-S has also been revised for increased camber stiffness.

In order to reduce steering sensitivity at very high speed Jaguar also reprogrammed The Active Differential, this helps a lot in increasing stability and driver control of XKR-S even on very high speed. 

The Dynamic Stability Control has also been re-engineered to get the compatibility with the car’s increased capabilities. Actually, Jaguar has not just given great speed to their new XKR-S but also made everything compatible with each other, you know a vehicle cannot be considered good if it failed to provide you good control with superb road holding on high speed. 

Jaguar’s High Performance Braking System features lightweight aluminum twin-piston sliding front calipers and single-piston sliding rear calipers, to deliver superb high-speed braking performance. Vulcan 20" alloy wheels are added to increase tyre widths about 9" in the front and 10.5" at the rear, and to provide Jaguar XKR-S great road grip.

The XKR-S’ is provided a six-speed automatic transmission, controlled by the JaguarDrive Selector™, a  feature aesthetically designed to give the driver more convenience with ease and style. It means that driver can simply turn the selector to choose mode, Drive or Sport automatic gearshift. 

 

But, this doesn’t mean that Jaguar neglected the aspect of driver’s involvement, because in Jaguar XKR-S, a driver can also control gear changes manually with the one-touch paddles given behind the steering wheel. In fact, Control™ is given to make a choice of modes best suitable to the road conditions and also the driving style. Winter mode is best to be selected for the winter’s slippery roads and the Dynamic mode is best suited for the quicker gearshifts in sporting drive.  

Dear Jaguar lovers now let’s talk about some other features that make the new XKR-S Jaguar a best performing car with beauty, style and convenience. An Active Front Lighting system features dynamic pivoting headlamps and cornering lamps, Bluetooth® telephone system, satellite navigation and climate control.

7" Touch-screen controls to provide more convenience and to shorten excessive feature knobs or switches, a Portable Audio Interface peripheral devices like iPod® or other MP3 player via the Touch-screen, Bowers & Wilkins 525W sound system featuring Dolby® Pro-Logic II Surround Sound enhanced by Kevlar® cones in the larger speakers and aluminum domes on the tweeters, a Reverse Park Camera with high quality results, the 16-way adjustable Performance seats with nice Softgrain leather, an amazingly designed unique front design features twin nacelles, side intakes, and carbon fibre splitter and lower spoiler and a unique rear wing with carbon fibre inlay and distinctive rear apron with a carbon fibre rear diffuser balance front and rear lift. Truly, Jaguar produced a masterpiece; I would just like to say this at the end of this post.