Autoblog

1. The grill the car should have had in the first place.

Posted at 2:09PM on Apr 4th 2008 by tio

2. um..no.

Posted at 3:26PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Sam

3. agreed. They should put the hood emblem on too.

Posted at 4:18PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Torrent

4. S6 driving lights?

Posted at 2:10PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Chaz

5. I like it. The XF's front fascia lost a lot of its aggressive character when it moved from concept to production. This helps put some back.

Posted at 2:12PM on Apr 4th 2008 by BAMF

6. understated luxury sedan > gawdy tuner

Posted at 2:14PM on Apr 4th 2008 by ugg.tryptophan

7. This car looks hilarious... Don't know if that's what they were going for.

Posted at 2:20PM on Apr 4th 2008 by compy386

8. It actually looks a lot better that the production version. If only they could do something about these ugly headlights.

Posted at 2:38PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Me Too

9. I second that

those headlights just don't fit a Jag
they're more liek VW or Hyundai, but definitely not Jag

I stil think the concept front end should have been kept itact.

Posted at 2:44PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Ligor

10. maybe the cat is pouncing on the grille badge to devour it. We can hope, can't we?

Oh, and any kit for this car that doesn't fix the headlights is pointless.

Posted at 2:39PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Seoultrain

11. this one retains a lot of the concept cues which is the car they should of made in the first place..not the water down version...

Posted at 2:44PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Level

12. FX could have been a car that would have saved Jaguar, now its just going to prolong its struggling by a few years.

Posted at 2:44PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Soccer Mom

13. The XF outsold all other Jaguar models combined in February.

Do you really think a car that single handedly doubles their sales numbers is "just going to prolong its struggling by a few years?"

Posted at 3:05PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Arsenal

14. Given their poor lineup and dismal sales number any new model will increase their sales many-fold. If you sell 1 car a year, then selling 2 will not be such a great achievement, despite that it doubles your sales.

Come on, for a mass-production company 1,000 cars is an incredibly bad performance. Doubling that is just adding another 1000 to the mix.

Had they retained the original design, they would have attracted younger buyers. They decided to stay conservative and retain those 1000 95-year-olds. Smart? I don't know.

Posted at 4:06PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Soccer Mom

15. "Look closely and you'll notice the cat is back on the hood (maybe too much redundancy, considering the badge is just below it as well?)."

Not redundant at all. My '98 XJR has the leaper on the hood and a growler on the grill.

This kit does not help the XF. I like the XF well enough and the parts i don't care for, this does not address. The grill looks absolutley silly.

Posted at 2:53PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Alex

16. correction: those wheels are far better than the stock.

Posted at 2:55PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Alex

17. Devastatingly messy.

Posted at 2:56PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Colin Smith

18. just imagine, with the amount this probably cost you could get a custom shop to make it look like the concept

Posted at 3:00PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Robert

19. Looks like an IS 250.

Posted at 3:36PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Rick

20. I'm sorry, but this is just a photo rendering of what they're planning to do. It really drives me up a wall when tuning companies release renderings of supposed products, but don't have the actual products to back it up.

Posted at 3:56PM on Apr 4th 2008 by Sean Flanagan