Mr Tata also had regrets about buying up the Landie, Jaguar division from Ford.
Mullaly & Billy Clay Ford must got the last laugh now. I suppose the good Lord had answered their prayer?

Not bad I guess, but it won’t turn around Jaguar either. I think Jaguar should have stuck to their “classic british elegance” design language, that might be a niche market but at least its there and it would be unique. With this design, they’re spotting their cars directly against Audi and BMW. Why would anyone buy a Jaguar now?

and the rear view is just soooo peugeot and uninspiring, in fact it is worse than that, it’s is just boring.

http://www.jaguar.com/gl/en/#/allnewxj/gallery?id=69543

I am even more disappointed now I have seen the back end. What is Callum getting paid for for goodness sake ? I could have fattened up the XF in MacPaint and arrived at this!!

It’s muscular, striking and individualistic… probably a bit too Quattroporte in the proportions (such items as the grille and the tail-lights), but very uniquely its own. And they cured the ungainly cockeyed look of the XF.

I’ll miss the old car, but this is a good look for the replacement. Can’t wait to see it in the metal.

So I’m not sure about the back end…but it is a bit daring for an English car.

I am afraid I see a character line cresting the front fender and falling in an even radius to the nose. I bet that – from the side, I’ll look like the new Focus. That would be…unfortunate.

The front? In one shot I saw, the grille looked very upright. Towering over the headlamps and protruding forward. Looked – at once – of Volvo and Dodge Ram Pick-up.

That said, Jags are the true beautiful women of the automotive world. Somehow, the character of a Jag makes it a bit more than just the sum of it’s parts.

The interior looks absolutely Mega!

Far be it from me to tell Callum how to draw cars, his work with Aston Martin guarantees his reputation as a designer, but I still think they could have done it my way.

The curve at the top of the fender, whose interior line comes to the front of the car just inside the outboard headlamp could have been widened to end next to the grille, arching both headlamps units. A slight crease in that panel between the headlamp units would creat the effect I’m going for.

Lookalike cars haven’t hurt BMW or Mercedes, but I think making the new XJ look more like an XJ and a little less like a big XF would have been preferable.

I’m an XJ fan. My favorite is the Series III revision of the 1980s, done by Sergio Pininfarina, so I think it’s possible to tinker with the basic shake, but an XJ needs quad headlamps.

Harrumph!

-So this should be, too.

Jaguar haven’t made any money selling the same old car to eccentric anglophiles. So they have to deviate from the norm. The original XJ was a huge departure from the MkII and S-Type and it took ages before the XJS was accepted as a “proper” Jag.

I wish Jaguar every success with this one.

Slap a different grill on it, and this car could be the new Lexus. Probably a nice drive in it’s own right, but not distinctive in an “I sure wish I owned THAT” sort of way.

Volvo on Edmunds

This car looks like a Jag, has some classic lines to it (more than the XF, which is appropriate), and it looks modern at the same time. It also removed the stupid round headlight cutout that the XF has. Bravo.