Yahoo Autos Wagon Lovers Rejoice: A New Jaguar XF Sportbrake Is Coming
Pretty much all of the news on the Jaguar Land Rover stand at the Paris auto show was generated by the new Land Rover Discovery. But JLR did sneak in one Jaguar-related product announcement, showing a single image of a disguised prototype XF wagon, which we were told will launch next year. In some parts of the world, at least.
The XF Sportbrake is welcome confirmation that Jaguar hasn't given up on wagons or–as they're called in the U.K.–estate cars. When the idea of what became the F-Pace SUV was first mooted several years ago, the suggestion was that it would effectively eliminate the need for a conventional wagon in the lineup; it wasn't as if the previous-generation XF Sportbrake-never sold in the United States-exactly set the world aflame by its sales.
There's no official line on whether the new Sportbrake will make it over here yet; beyond showing the picture and giving a rough on-sale date, Jaguar told us nothing. We'd say a North American offering has to be a long shot. The last wagon Jaguar offered here, the 2005–2008 X-type, found only 1602 buyers. Yes, spread over four model years. That said, the company has proved willing to bring minority models across the Atlantic to help it compete in some impressively small niches with offerings such as a four-cylinder diesel and even a manual gearbox for the F-type sports car.
Jaguar's all-wheel-drive system also offers one other tantalizing possibility: The company could create a lifted all-wheel-drive version of the Sportbrake to rival the Audi Allroadand the Mercedes-Benz E-class All-Terrain wagons. They could call it the Jaguar Country Estate.
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