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JAGUAR XE

GREAT AGAIN

A new interior and a cleaner

engine. Has Jaguar done enough?

Text Aadil Naik Photographs Kaizad Adil Darukhanawala

If I’m being completely honest, I thankfully refrained from changing went for slits), and the front grille is
am a little partial to British cars and what isn’t broken. And for the slightly different. If you walk around
their approach to design. I think majority of what has changed, to the rear, you will see the old car.
Aston Martin and McLaren are the Jaguar has done a good job. This particular specimen gets the
only ones making pretty sportscars, So, the smooth flowing lines from optional ‘Black Pack’ which replaces
and I love the Jaguar F-Type. I prefer the previous XE are still the same almost all the chrome with a dark
simplicity and elegance. I was quite and you’d be hard pressed to tell the glossy black. Looks very cool, so I’m
fond of the previous Jaguar XE, new car from the old. The headlights not complaining at all.
too, and felt it was the only vehicle are narrower because there seems to The interior is a whole different
amongst its competitors that didn’t be some unsaid rule that headlights story, though. The previous car did
feel dated. And with the updated must get thinner every year (no feel old in this aspect and Jaguar
Jaguar XE the British marque has wonder the Tesla Cybertruck just has suitably updated it. The steering

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