Bye Bye BMW...
- Thread starter J1nxy
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. I'm 37 so not sure an old man yet...
Caporegime
does it have the vibrating seats of the XJ ?
Caporegime
F10 interior still trumps it for me.
From an exterior point of view, my preference is the XF, at least from the sides and the rear.
From an exterior point of view, my preference is the XF, at least from the sides and the rear.
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Man of Honour
The F10 is more stylish but the XF just wins for the gadget/cool factor nerd in me, the magnesium alloy bits all round just top it off!
Caporegime
What a fantastic looking car. Great choice, OP.
Soldato
Can't stand the interior of the F10! At least not in that combo.
There's too much in too little space, all with same little tacky plastic buttons. No ty!
/reaches for sickbag.
There's too much in too little space, all with same little tacky plastic buttons. No ty!
/reaches for sickbag.
Man of Honour
Have you ever been in one?
Man of Honour
I have!
F10 is real nice, much better quality than an E60 but I can't imagine it being as solid and nice feeling as an XF.
F10 is real nice, much better quality than an E60 but I can't imagine it being as solid and nice feeling as an XF.
Man of Honour
Been in one or driven one? Sounds to me like you haven't driven both.
Man of Honour
Not driven, besides, I was on about the interior look and feel not how they drive. I'm sure they both drive amazingly but The XF has an interior that is more future than the F10 though.
To be far the F10, A5/7, XF and E Class all had very good interiors on the scale of things. The F10 is well built, has some nice design to it but just isn't "special", the E Class is the "worst" (relatively) of them all due to the odd material choices, the A5 and A7 are very Germanic in their feel and design while the XF just felt like something very special which somebody had really thought long and hard about to differentiate it from the Germany mob. The only bit in the XF interior which feels even slightly lower rent is the little joystick which controls the mirror position and its not like you come into contact with it very often...
[TW]Fox;18595203 said:
I agree, the bit that always stands out for me is the centre arm rest which just seems like they had an old chair lying round in the design office which they hack the arms off of and glued in and went that'll do...
Man of Honour
One mans future is another man's past. I find the XF dash and all of those silvery knobs soulless and tacky. It’s all very boxy and looks like it’s been thrown in as an afterthought. It's not my cup of tea.The F10 cockpit for me is almost perfect both visually and ergonomically. The rest of the interiors in both cars are fairly evenly matched.
It’s all so very subjective and just shows how differently we all see cars. J1nxy has a great car and I hope it gives him years of pleasure.
Thanks to everybody for the comments, I know some of my decisions have split opinions somewhat, but colour choice is very personal and its what I wanted so ner ner de ner ner 
To be honest I've spent the last 2-3 months looking and looking again at every car I could think of which fitted my requirements. I've driven my wife nuts by trawling every car site you can imagine night after night and dragging her and the kids to various car dealers around my area.
What I tried to purvey in opening post was that this was not a decision that we took lightly at all, its not an insignificant amount of money I've just thrown at a car here, but every time we looked at something it always came down to "How does it compare to the XF and how does the dealer experience compare to Jaguar". The car which came closest was the A5 Sportback, which probably surprises people, but as a package it just wasn't the XF and the dealers were not in the same league.
I'm thrilled with what I've bought, I've loved the XF since it was launched and the car the dealer found just fits perfectly what we wanted. I'll try to take some night time pictures of the interior over the weekend as well just to show the ambient lighting features it has etc.
In the mean time if anybody has any more comments or questions I'll do my best to answer...
To be honest I've spent the last 2-3 months looking and looking again at every car I could think of which fitted my requirements. I've driven my wife nuts by trawling every car site you can imagine night after night and dragging her and the kids to various car dealers around my area.
What I tried to purvey in opening post was that this was not a decision that we took lightly at all, its not an insignificant amount of money I've just thrown at a car here, but every time we looked at something it always came down to "How does it compare to the XF and how does the dealer experience compare to Jaguar". The car which came closest was the A5 Sportback, which probably surprises people, but as a package it just wasn't the XF and the dealers were not in the same league.
I'm thrilled with what I've bought, I've loved the XF since it was launched and the car the dealer found just fits perfectly what we wanted. I'll try to take some night time pictures of the interior over the weekend as well just to show the ambient lighting features it has etc.
In the mean time if anybody has any more comments or questions I'll do my best to answer...