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Jaguar XF's interior (2008)
By
Tim Pollard
Spy shots
16 May 2007 11:25
Inside the Jaguar XF
So Jaguar's new XF is yet another 'make-or-break' car for the struggling British car manufacturer. They must be sick of hearing that in Coventry, but the S-type replacement is unarguably too important a car for them to get wrong. CAR Online has already published numerous scoops of the production XF, but now our man with the long lens has snatched the first photograph of an undisguised interior. It's not an exact facsimile of the C-XF concept's, but the overall structure of the dashboard is similar. There's a big touch-screen display mounted high up on the middle of the dash flanked by a pair of tall, upright air vents, underneath which nestle a bank of (possibly Ford-sourced) switchgear for ventilation and minor controls. Click 'Next' to compare the production car's cabin with the concept's
So it's not quite as space-agey as the concept car's cabin, is it?
No, but then few production car cabins do manage to capture the full excitement of the concept car that sired them. Nearly everything that you see in the C-XF shown at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2007 (pictured above) that smacks of show-car glitz is toned down at the behest of the bean counters. Out go the strips of fluorescent lighting and swathes of metallic trim, and in come the parts-bin switches and other components shared across the Ford group. But our scoop shot does reveal that one piece of radical concept design will survive: the new circular JaguarDrive Selector transmission.
