My guess would be that you got yourself a lemon, considering I’ve never heard of an issue with steering vibration from the many, many reviews I’ve read on the XF. Maybe you can get your XF declared a lemon and force Jaguar to give you a new one?

Go here to see if your XF fits the description of a lemon: http://www.carlemon.com/

It is most noticeable (and visible) in the steering wheel, but can also be felt in my seat as well. My dealer has tried everything they know how to do and it still shakes.

Jaguar engineers say it’s a high performance car and vibration is to be expected. I say if they’re betting Jaguar’s future on this car, they might want rethink their position.

Regrettably, despite its promising appearance it’s not a car I’d recommend until they get the first year bugs worked out.

Forbes says that top few billionaires from India have net worth of over 400 billion USD.

Tata’s son seems to be Cornell educated guy who knows a thing or two about fine automobiles. I wouldnt worry too much.

Jaguar’s ownership is a moot point. Even their new owners probably dont think too much about it. After reading a bit about em, I realized that Jag/LR are at the bottom end of their acquisitions.

The critical issue remains what you would get instead for a $63k sticker price.

I would love for all of the folks who are so critical of the XF to share their thoughts on that.

Let me simply say this:

1. Cease immediately looking at pictures of the XF
and
2. Run, don’t walk, to the nearest Jaguar dealership to see it in the metal, in the sun, in a dark color.

It is wildly gorgeous. No sedan before had gotten me to react so strongly to its design. Last time I was so disarmed by a vehicle’s design was on my first sighting of an Enzo.

This sedan is bloody gorgeous. Congratulations Tata (and now I think thanks are in order for saving this brand to allow the XF to grace our roads and embellish our environment.

1. Gorgeous front and back although the front could be more interesting. You really have to see it on the street to appreciate it. The lighter colors do not look nearly as good.

2. superb interior.

3. Fabulous suspension. So nice that my wife does not complain around town on pretty bad roads. Front-end heavy so it will understeer on very tight, hard turns (I slid out quite a bit toward a rock wall – it is a luxury sedan, not a Lotus Elise).

4. All the gimmicky electronics seem to work perfectly and are pretty unobtrusive.

5. Stereo is to die for. Best I have ever heard in a car. Actually, best I have ever heard ever. The stereo alone is reason enough to get one.

6. 12.8 mpg in highly aggressive city driving. Ce la vie.

7. Going 80 mph around a highway cloverleaf with stereo screaming and the interior glistening I am one happy camper and do not give a damn who owns the company.

You are kidding, right? The “Steam trains” show was about nicely-restored vintage trains in railway museums and novelty railroads. The actual, working railways uses mostly modern diesel and electric locomotives (some made by Tata, actually) and quite unlike the stuff that “the brits built”. The Indian Railway company (state owned) is one of the largest organizations in the world – I don’t have the numbers on hand, but their freight and passenger volumes were mind-boggling.

Giving Jag to India assures that the spirit of Jag will be in caring hands. Better still is that India has figured out current technology, so there’s a shot that Jag could annoy Lexus.

I felt infintely more comfortable sitting in Volvo’s S80 V8 at the same show. Wasn’t even a close comparison, and the interior finish was 9/10’s as nice as the Jag’s was. Plus you’re paying 10-15K less. So what makes this one worth buying, again?

Besides, it might be less noxious to our lungs than some of those outgassing polymers that smear up the insides of car windows for months at a time.

My comments regarding xenophobia etc were meant for previous posts on this site about the Tata Jaguar sale, not neccessarily in this article (though there are few).

The KKK can march in the streets in America because of freedom of speech and assembly. Not because they aren’t racists.

And yeah, the Red Sox were a pretty racist club for a long time. But the old management is long gone and that’s water under the bridge now.

A car the smells Indian doesn’t really necessarily
a racist comment.

Yes. it is.

If we criticize American cars for being so lousy
but in fact we are really destroying the American car companies and the US Economy.

A car the smells Indian doesn’t really necessarily
a racist comment.

If the KKK can march the streets of America and shout racist slur to the colored people while cops pick their nose in front of those Klan without arresting them and an Obama preacher who just mentioned some slur and branded a racist for saying those words.

Hypocrisy is the right word to say.

Red Sox!!! that club is more racist than what history told us.

Now if we could get a few more sexy cars in the price range I can afford! i.e., less than this.

also – whats this about the tata cars wil smell like indian food? thats harsh.

do they now smell like fish and chips? whats up with that? The last time i was in a jag it smelled like leather.

I find the XF’s aesthetics to be gorgeous…. except for that misguided large headlight that sticks pas the natural lines of the headlight assembly. It strikes me as a clear case of a “designed-by-committee” part of the car.

I.e., after (a) creative mind(s) came up with the overall design, someone in a conference room during some meeting said: “yes, but we need a tie in to the Jaguar design heritage. It’s always been Jag to have a Big light and a small light. Do something about that.”

And then a doesn’t-belong-there light was grafted on.

All this being said, I saw the interior of the XF at an auto show, and wooooooooooeeee! It was impressive.

Seriously, we will be refering to the Jag’s interior instead of Audi as the benchmark, a few years from now.

Tata’s are not just an IT company – in fact, that is one of their more recent ventures. They are, in fact, and older and better-run company than Jaguar itself.

And most Indian guys I have worked with have been certifiable car-nuts – and I mean that in a good way. If Tata can harness that passion, I think they will do very well with Jaguar.