2023 Jaguar XF
About the 2023 Jaguar XF
Last updated Jun 07, 2024These days Jag’s large passenger car comes in just one guise. There’s no longer options of rear drive, Sportback wagon, grade variation, diesels or any higher petrol cylinder count than four.
Rather than go out on a specification limb the XF ‘single spec’ is fairly safe: it seems Jag aimed for broad appeal. It eschews the old-school big-blown-V8 ethos that once made large Jaguar sedans charmingly different.
The sole survivor is an academically efficient two-litre turbo four run through all-wheel drive, seemingly aligning itself with Euro competitor trends. Nothing that new nor surprising here.
| Fuel Efficiency | 7.4 L / 100km |
|---|---|
| ANCAP Rating | Not tested |
| Warranty | 5 years |
Summary
Fetchingly upmarket cabin vibe
Excellent Pivi Pro infotainment
Some really neat interior design touches
Silly cost options
Frustrated powertrain
Some strange interior design foibles
Price & Specs
XF Range Guide
The 300 Sport comes standard with the following equipment:
- 20-inch alloy wheels
- Tyre pressure monitoring
- Black contrast roof
- Black exterior pack
- Heated, power-folding exterior mirrors with memory
- Green tinted glass
- Rain-sensing wipers
- LED headlights with automatic high-beam
- Power boot lid
- Configurable Dynamics
- Adaptive suspension
- Torque Vectoring by Braking
- 11.4-inch touchscreen infotainment system
- Android Auto and Apple CarPlay
- DAB digital radio
- Satellite navigation
- 7.0-inch instrument cluster screen
- Wireless phone charger
- 13-speaker 400W Meridian sound system
- Satin Chrome paddle shifters
- Power-adjustable steering column
- Leather-wrapped steering wheel
- Dual-zone climate control
- 16-way power-adjustable heated front seats with memory
- 40:20:40 folding rear seats with centre armrest
- Keyless entry and start
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Interior
While subtly massaged on the outside, it’s the look and feel of the cabin where the facelifted XF sees its most conspicuous change. All new, Jaguar says, and to a large extent it feels it.
The two attention grabbers are the wheel and touchscreen. The tiller is ornate, deeply contoured and lovely to touch – it’s a significant improvement over the plainer unit it replaces, with its oddball off-centre horn cap.
It frames the digital display nicely: the screen crisp, clear and user configurable. There are a number of skins that subtly ape Audi’s Virtual Cockpit, if with a cumbersome adjustment interface.
Exterior
There are various visual tweaks like a standard black exterior pack and 20-inch silver/gloss black-finish alloy wheels.
XF Photo Gallery
XF Colours
The XF is available in Solid White paint, or in the following metallic finishes:
- Santorini Black
- Firenze Red
- Bluefire Blue
- Eiger Grey
- Portofino Blue
- British Racing Green
- Hakuba Silver
- Ostuni Pearl White
The following metallic finishes cost an extra $165:
- Carpathian Grey
- Silicon Silver
How it Drives
The 2023 Jaguar XF is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine producing 221kW of power and 400Nm of torque. It’s mated with an eight-speed automatic transmission.
It has a claimed 0-100km/h time of 6.1 seconds.
The XF plonks its 1819kg (before options) heft in the unenviable position of fitting the same engine as its cheaper, lighter and feistier mid-sized XE rear-driven stablemate.
No foul, but clearly one curbs expectation of outright sportiness, even given the R-Dynamic branding. In capacity terms at least, the XF doesn’t exactly instil confidence in the sort of long-legged laziness one might expect from big luxury motoring.
There is always a balance when meeting both sports and luxury expectations. In practice, the XF powertrain combination gets away with what it’s tasked to do.
XF Safety Rating
The Jaguar XF is technically unrated by ANCAP, though it recorded a five-star rating for models sold from February 2016 to January 2022.
This score was based on an adult occupant protection rating of 94 per cent, child occupant protection of 84 per cent, pedestrian protection of 80 per cent and safety assist of 83 per cent.
Standard safety equipment includes:
- Autonomous emergency braking (forward and reverse)
- Lane-keep assist
- Blind-spot monitoring
- Rear cross-traffic alert
- Adaptive cruise control
- Traffic sign recognition
- Adaptive speed limiter
- Reversing camera with front and rear parking sensors
- Front, front-side and curtain airbags
XF Options
Though the Jaguar XF is now offered in a single variant, there’s still a wide range of options.
Standalone options include, but are not limited to:
- Pixel LED headlights: $3380
- Panoramic sunroof: $3370
- Extended leather upgrade: $3315
- Head-up display: $1950
- 16-way power-adjustable, heated and ventilated front seats with massaging and memory: $1700
- Soft-close doors: $1370
- Four-zone climate control: $1340
- ClearSight digital rear-view mirror: $1275
- Surround-view camera: $950
- 12-inch digital instrument cluster: $845
- Privacy glass: $845
- Lockable cooled glove compartment: $840
- 40:20:40 folding, heated rear seats: $805
- Red brake calipers: $805
- Heated windscreen and washer jets: $755
- 16-way power-adjustable, heated and ventilated front seats with memory: $700
- Solar attenuating windscreen: $690
- Electric rear window sunblind: $625
- Headlight power washers: $495 (not available with Pixel headlights)
- Cabin air ionisation with PM2.5 filter: $480
- 17-speaker 650W Meridian sound system: $390
- Powered gesture roof blind: $270
- Air quality sensor: $220
- Two additional rear centre console USB outlets, 12V outlet in boot: $210
There’s also a range of option packages.
The Cold Climate Pack costs $1430 and adds:
- Heated windscreen
- Heated power washers
- Heated washer jets
- Heated steering wheel
The Convenience Pack costs $3170 and adds:
- Power rear window sunblind
- Additional power sockets
- Soft-close doors
The Technology Pack costs $3810 and adds:
- Solar attenuating windscreen
- ClearSight digital rear-view mirror
- Head-up display
- 12-inch digital instrument cluster
XF Warranty
The Jaguar XF is backed by a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty.
XF Infotainment
The infotainment system is JLR’s whiz-bang high-grade Pivi Pro, with a resolution and configurable content design that’s downright beautiful to look at. It also has a lateral scrolling tiling format that’s quite intuitive to use.
The 360-degree camera display array, in particular, offers excellent clarity through multiple views, including the novel ‘floating camera’ perspective. Quick smartphone mirroring, embedded modems, Spotify, 4G connectivity… it’s a fair step up from the system it replaces and demanded new electronic architecture to facilitate.
But it’s the curved screen that’s inspired, such a seemingly minor detail in the grand fit-out, but one that brings a real classiness to the careful stylised upmarket cabin presentation.
The ClearSight rear camera in the rearview mirror, which is activated via a lever under the mirror housing, works a treat. The head-scratcher; though, is that the regular touchscreen reversing camera is good: it kind of makes the whole ClearSight concept of extra guidance a little superfluous.
XF Boot Space
It has a 459L boot, with cargo space expanding to 1484L with the rear seats folded.
XF Fuel Economy
The 2023 Jaguar XF uses 7.4 litres per 100km on the combined cycle and has a 74L fuel tank.
The 2023 JAGUAR XF is Combined (7.4) and E10 Compatible (-).
XF Dimensions
The 2023 Jaguar XF measures 4962mm long, 1456mm tall and 1982mm wide (2089mm including the mirrors). It rides a 2960mm wheelbase.
Braked towing capacity is 1900kg while unbraked is 750kg.
The 2023 JAGUAR XF measures 4962mm long, 1890mm wide and 1456mm tall, with a 2960mm tall wheelbase.
XF Market Fit
The Jaguar XF is categorised as a LARGE FROM 70K
Should you buy the XF
The revised XF is a handsome machine that does entice more seductively with that new interior vibe and its largely excellent digital jewellery. There are a sprinkling of cabin functionality missteps though.
It has a somewhat safe and widely palatable specification aimed at luring more buyers to what has been, frankly, a fairly poor seller for the JLR camp.
Still, your only XF choice is now appreciably higher – around $18k – than what was offered in base trim prior. You also have to pry extra from the kitty for stuff such as inductive phone charging and rear privacy glass. At this tier of premium motoring this is, frankly, a bit rich.
In general, the XF returns a dignified enough user experience to meet many buyers’ upmarket expectations, but in many ways it does lack the sort of on-road polish it ought to offer.
In trying to be a somewhat frugal luxury cruiser, while also offering a bit of pulse-raising performance and dynamic gusto, it doesn’t really nail either discipline nor marries them together with all that much cohesion.
It’s great in areas, but not outstanding as an overall package.
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