Jaguar to betray faster, blacker XKR Special Book in Geneva
You know which cat? It’s not only out of a bag, but a bag has been beaten, attacked and burnt to the crisp. Interpretation: Jaguar is bringing the muscular, hopped-up chronicle of its XKR to Geneva. Dubbed a XKR Special Book, this Jag is actually a combo platter of dual alternative XKR specials. Still with us? Great.
Let’s start with a first two. For 2011, a supercharged, 510-horsepower XKR will be available with a Speed Pack. What’s it do? The Speed Container raises the bad kitty’s tip speed fr om 155 mph to 174 mph (both speeds are electronically singular. Afterwards there’s the Black Container which, besides being fun to say, is an coming package for the already flattering good seeking XKR.
Shou ld you opt for a Black Container, you get shimmer bla ck 20-inch Kalimnos wh eels, gloss black chrome grille and side vents, red brake calipers as well as a body-colored aero-kit. You can even go for an “XKR” striking upon the side sills (we’d advise against that f inal bit). Rather tha n calling the dual total packages “Black Speed,” Jaguar is instead calling the total megillah a XKR Special Edition. Until Geneva. Press Recover and video after the jump.
Show full PR textThe New 2011 XKR during a peek
A ultimate era of Jaguar’s award-winning XKR sports coupe now offers customers even greater preference int erjection to a brandnew Special Book model as we ll as two optional performance as well as styling packs:
The brandnew XKR with optional Black Pack for combined visual impactThe new XKR with optional Speed Container for a significantly increased limit speedThe XKR Special Book, which combines both packs to emanate a idealisation supercharged sports coupe.
A 2011 Indication Year XKR fea tures the acclaimed AJ-V8 Gen III R direct-injection engine – the most advanced as well as fit supercharged engine Jaguar has ever constructed:
5.0-litre supercharged AJ-V8 Gen III R delivers 510PS (510bhp SAE), 625Nm of torque and propels the XKR coupe to 60mph in only 4.6 seconds.
With the discretionary Speed Pack, the limit speed of the XKR is raised from 155mph (250km/h) to an electronically limited 174mph (280km/h) interjection to recalibration of the engine management system.
The Brandnew 2011 XKR at a glance
Brandnew discretionary Black Container allows customers to create a bold, extrovert XKR, with the further of dramatic gloss black 20-inch Kalimnos alloy wheels, shimmer black finish to the front air grilles and side Power Vents, red stop callipers, a body-coloured aerodynamic pack (including a front chin spoiler as well as larger rear spoiler) as well as an optional ‘XKR’ body side graphic along a lower sills.
State-of-the-art six-speed automatic transmission has seamless gearshifts, while an advanced Active Differential Carryout and Adaptive Dynamics suspension system serve optimises traction and handling.
The XKR’s modernized aluminium physique architecture is clever and lightweight as well as a key to maximising a car’s performance, dynamic lively, competitive CO2 emissions as well as fuel economy.
Improved CO2 emissions performance (Euro Stage V agreeable two years ahead of legislative order and fuel saving allied to the previous 4.2-litre XKR engine.
A 2011 XKR stays loyal to a birthright of Jaguar’s mythological performance, delivering a glorious balance of dynamic ability and excellence.
Sparkling user-friendly technologies such as the JaguarDrive Selector™ further enhance performance, driving dynamics as well as a XKR’s luxury sporting impression.
The brandnew XKR Special Edition with Speed as well as Black Packs is denounced at the 2010 Geneva Engine Uncover on Impetus 4th, 2010.
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Jaguar unveils the idealisation XKR Special Edition
Jaguar will unveil the latest dramatic evolution of the supercharged XKR coupe at the Geneva Engine Show. The overwhelming new XKR Special Edition delivers the significantly lifted maximum speed – 174mph (280km/h) – as well as bold exterior styling changes which create a idealisation supercharged Jaguar.
A XKR Special Book combines a number of brandnew features and choice packs which are introduced to a XK operation during 2011 Indication Year. Jaguar customers have the option to personalise their vehicle by building on a existent XKR package to broach a automobile which offers even greater performance without sacrificing a excellence as well as luxury for which every Jaguar is renowned.
Introduced final year, the XKR boasts the state-of-the-art 5.0-litre supercharged AJ-V8 Gen III R engine that delivers 510PS (510bhp SAE), 625Nm of torque as well as propels a coupe to 60mph in just 4.6 seconds. Now, in Special Edition guise, a XKR’s top speed climbs significantly from an electronically limited 155mph (250km/h) to 174mph (280km/h) interjection to a further of a Speed Pack. Allied to which remarkable engine is an modernized six-speed automatic transmission with steering-wheel mounted paddles, lightweight aluminium physique makeup as well as a range of computer-controlled systems togetherwith Active Differential Control and Adaptive Dynamics that ensure the supercharged car accelerates even faster, handles even some-more precisely as well as sets new standards of ride and joy.
The benefits of the XKR’s lightweight but stiff and strong advanced all aluminium body are already acknowledged. Not only does this design bring dynamic benefits interjection to its torsional rigidity, it also offers excellent reserve and crash repair features and provides the ideal base to urge opening across the house – including optimised fuel economy and CO2 emissions. Thanks to a combination of excellent powertrain potency and a XKR’s modernized lightweight body architecture, the fuel saving is comparable to the previous era of XKR – despite a significant increases in power as well as performance.
A XKR Special Edition pairs a optional Speed and Black Packs to emanate the bold new model denounced in Geneva, which also sports discretionary Piano Black veneers on the dashboard and red brake callipers. Both choice packs are additionally accessible alone for business who find to personalise their cars in terms of possibly styling or additional performance. Whatever combination is selected, every XKR delivers that classical Jaguar blend of charming, powerful as well as elegant looks, beautifully accomplished interiors as well as even some-more comprehensive selection.
The motorist is the centre of courtesy in the XKR Special Edition, with exciting brandnew facilities includi ng the acclaimed JaguarDrive Selector™, as well as tall levels of selection such as the 7-inch Touch-Screen, 16-way exhilarated and cooled memory seats, Jet Suedecloth premium headlining and Flint Grey reward carpet. In addition, the bespoke brandnew Jaguar XK container That will be available as an option for all XK models) has been fashioned for the XKR Special Book. From 2010, a Jaguar XK range (UK as well as certain European markets usually will be fitted with the tyre repair Present Mobility Complement. By adopting IMS on all models, the XK frees up the 30-litre circle good, which is now carpeted as well as can hold the specifically written and tailored XK accessory container, almost augmenting the versatility of a automobile.
THE NEW 2011 XKR OPTION PACKS
The new 2011 Jaguar XKR Special Book consists of two new styling and performance packs – a Speed as well as Black Pack. Both have been available to XKR coupe customers alone as well as provide brandnew levels of styling as well as performance for owners looking to serve personalise their Jaguar.
The XKR Speed Container
A XKR with new discretionary Speed Pack allows customers to further strengthen their XKR’s already considerable breadth of capacity, by fluctuating the car’s top speed from 155mph (250km/h) to an electronically limited 174mph (280km/h), interjection to a singular engine and delivery recalibration.
To ensure a XKR with Speed Pack remains fast during tall speeds, the coupe uses a revised front aerodynamic splitter and larger back spoiler to yield increased change and a reduction in lift. The XKR’s computerised Active Differential Carryout also adjusts to reduce steering attraction during really high speeds, serve improving fortitude as well as driver control.
Customers who sequence a XKR coupe with a Speed Container will be offering a paint palette which is part of the Jaguar Designers’ Choice programme – the range of colours which have been specifically chosen to compliment the opening intensity of the car. Seven colours are accessible upon Speed Container models – Ultimate B lack, Polaris White, Salsa Red, Liquid China, Lunar Grey, Kyanite Blue and Spectrum Blue.
Each XKR with the Speed Pack will come with body-coloured side sills as well as rear diffuser, as well as a chrome finish to a window surrounds, upper and lower filigree grilles, side Energy Vents and boot lid finisher. Red brake callipers with the Jaguar ‘R’ trademark sit inside 20-inch Kasuga alloy wheels.
By raising the XKR’s limit speed the new automobile has lengthened the sporting credentials, receiving it even further into supercar performance territory. Russ Varney, Arch Programme Engineer, XK Series, explains the philosophy behind the uprated XKR:
“With 510PS and 625Nm of torque, the XKR has measureless pot of power and increase in speed which impress everyone who experience it. The automobile has always had a potential to strech speeds distant beyond the original electronically limited maximum and many of the customers have voiced an interest in the car which can safely be driven faster where conditions assent. A new Speed Pack allows them to recover some of that potential as well as give them control of the fastest Jaguar XK we’ve made to date.”
A performance intensity of the supercharged AJ-V8 Gen III R engine comes courtesy of its rarely advanced design. The all-alu minium four-cam power unit has a number of facilities which broach power with very high potency, including spray-guided approach injection (SGDI), which improves opening and saving, as well as twin independent variable cam timing (DIVCT), that benefits performance and economy, while additionally reducing emissions.
The AJ-V8 engine is built around a unbending, aluminium block with cast-in iron liners and cross-bolted main bearing caps to reduce sound, quivering and rudeness. The block is tall vigour die-cast, onconditionthat a superior finish and larger dimensional accuracy. A engine uses aluminium heads, with four valves per cylinder as well as spheroidal-graphite cast-iron crankshafts and fake steel connecting rods. A cylinder heads for a first time are specified with a secondary (recycled) aluminium alloy thus shortening a environmental impact of manufacturing a new engine.
A sixth-generation, identicaltiwn vortex system supercharger is propitious to a XKR’s 510PS engine. It is the compact Roots-type section, feeding air through identicaltiwn intercoolers, which in spin are water-cooled by their own watchful cooling circuit. The tall wind rotor design improves a supercharger thermodynamic efficiency by more than 20 percent over its prototype. It additionally improves noise peculiarity to the indicate where a secti on is probably stammering (making supercharger bemoan the thing of the past). The intercoolers revoke the temperature of the pressurised intake-air and so optimise energy as well as efficiency. Mechanically, the brandnew supercharger and its intercoolers have been efficiently finished in the ‘V’ of the engine to deliver a lower overall engine height in await of walking reserve requirements.
An industry-first, centrally-mounted, six-hole, spray-guided fuel injection complement delivers fuel at a vigour of up to 150bar without delay to the cylinder. This substantially contributes to improved low-speed, dynamic response. A positioning of the injectors ensures fuel is precisely delivered to a centre of a explosion cover, maximising air-fuel blending as well as mending explosion control. Fuel is delivered by twin, high-pressure fuel pumps that are driven via an auxiliary shaft in a all-new engine block.
A charge cooling goods of the direct-injection fuel complement have authorised a compression ratio of the supercharged engine to increase from 9.1:1 to 9.5:1, serve optimising fuel economy. During a engine warm-up proviso, the combustion complement employs multiple injection mode strategies to broach 50 percent more heat for quick matter warm-up as well as emissions reduction.
A brandnew sort of non-static camshaft timing (VCT) complement introduces another new technology. A four VCT units are activated by the positive as well as disastrous torques generated by opening and shutting a intake as well as empty valves, instead of by oil vigour. This has allowed the engine oil siphon to be markeddown in size, saving energy as well as mending fuel consumption.
VCT units work independently on all four camshafts with 62 degrees of management on the estuary cams and 50 degrees of authority upon the exhaust cams. Timing is optimised by a engine control section for torque, energy and economy at every indicate in a engine’s speed operation. A brandnew VCT units are able of a reply rate up to three times faster than in previous Jaguar engines, with actuation rates in excess of 150 degrees per second. This delivers a more immedia te engine response to a driver’s direct for energy.
Minimising internal friction is key to mending fuel expenditure and CO2 emissions, and as such was the pass target when it came to the design of the engines. As the result, the new Jaguar AJ-V8 Gen III engines achieve another best in class, setting the new industry benchmark for cranktrain efficiency.
All engine orientation were engineered for reduced attrition but compromising reliability. Diamond-Like Carbon Coating (DLC) has been used to revoke attrition upon a fuel siphon tappets and the solid film lubricant has been used to cloak a piston skirts. New engine oil has a lower flexi bility, contributing to an prolongation in
service intervals from 10,000 miles to 15,000 miles (or 12 months). The V8 engine is fitted with an electronic oil-level indicator for added peace of mind.
Receptivetoadvice quality is a key characteristic of all Jaguars and is asingle particular aspect which customers penchant. With which in mind, Jaguar engineers have accentuated the acoustic feedback into a cabin in order to further enhance the driving pleasure.
In further to a entirely active empty system in which valves open to yield a some-more rewarding note, the brandnew XKR has been engineered to provide an intake feedback complement to raise the V8 receptivetoadvice character commonly absent upon supercharged engines. Moneycomingin plural pressure pulsations are fed into an acoustic filter during a rear of a engine which is tuned to yield an irritable sports car ‘crescendo’ at tall revs. A filter is controlled by a engine management system, which only allows the receptivetoadvice to enter the cabin under a suitable pushing conditions.
The brandnew intake feedback complement combined with a fully active exhaust system provides the most refreshing auditory knowledge nonetheless delivered upon the Jaguar.
A XKR Black Pack
For customers looking to create a real matter with their XKR, the brandnew optional Black Pack allows them to own a bold and eloquent Jaguar with undeniable visual stroke interjection to menacing gloss black wheels and exterior detailing.
Similarto a Speed Container, XKRs fitted with a Black Pack have a paint palette that is restricted to colours that Jaguar’s Design group believe to be ideal for creating a coupe with immediate exclusivity. The Black Container models will be available in Ultimate Black, Polaris White or Salsa Red and boast eye-catching 20-inch shimmer black Kalimnos alloy wheels. Further gloss black finishing is applied to the window surrounds, front grilles as well as side Energy Vents. Optional red painted brake callipers contrast strongly with the black alloy wheels, while body coloured front and rear spoilers and boot lid finisher t urn out the package. Business also have a choice to apply a sweeping ‘XKR’ side physique graphic that runs along the doorway sills.
Jaguar’s Pattern Director, Ian Callum, says a new Black Pack is a fitting further to the XKR:
“While Jaguars are about beauty, they are additionally about speed and powe r. With the optional Black Container you can rightaway add a clarity of play and severity to which performance.”
In addition to the Black Pack’s exterior changes, the Jaguar Designers’ Choice programme has additionally selected a operation of inter ior trims that await a visual impact of a automobile. All XKRs with a Black Container will be trimmed with Charcoal tannedhide hides that can be personalised with the operation of colour stitching as well as pellet. 3 interior finishes and veneers for the fascia as well as doorway trims have been also available – Dim Oak, Dark Filigree Aluminium and Piano Black.
Whatever interior trim is comparison, the XKR’s cabin is evidence of contemporary, sporting oppulance, exceptional peculiarity of craftsmanship, and Jaguar’s eminent courtesy to detail. The interior is purify, elegant as well as atmospheric, and stays wholly in harmony with a sporting impression of the revised exterior.
The latest feature enhancements have been showcased by the JaguarDrive Selector™, which is neatly as well as elegantly packaged in the centre console. Initial seen on the Jaguar XF tavern, a JaguarDrive Selector™ facilities a rotary shift control that rises into the driver’s hand as the automobile is proposed, to give discerning, ergonomically fit delivery control from the neat, space-efficient interface.
The selector is, in actuality, much some-more than only an unobtrusive yet completely practical resolution to selecting an involuntary rigging mode. It additionally imbues a car with the clever driver ‘handshake’ – get into an XKR and the begin button in front of the JaguarDrive Selector™ pulses red, like a heartbeat; press this symbol to start the engine and the cast amalgamate JaguarDrive Selector™ rises into a palm of your hand.
From there, involuntary delivery functions have been comparison simply by branch the control with a fingertips. As an example, Drive to Expostulate Sport preference is accomplished with a simple pull and turn movement. Returning from S to D, the rotary control operates with spring-assistance, which eliminates a need to pull the Selector. It couldn’t be simpler. As well as when the engine is stopped, the JaguarDrive Selector™ returns automatically to its Park position.
A welcome to a automobile is also enhanced by splendid treadplate inserts. Many of the alternative changes emphasise high levels of Jaguar craftsmanship with jewel-like touches. A three-spoke steering circle con tains a leather-wrapped lower spoke, and Jaguar’s striking ‘growler’ pinnedtoken. The XKR’s instruments serve emphasise the car’s opening charac ter with red pointers and white enlightenment.
A door casings have been eve n some-more luxuriously crafted than before, with saddle-stitched lines and a brandnew interlayer to give the softer touch to the top shoulder of the casing. A tannedhide door pulls also introduce
twin-needle stitching and the soft-feel interlayer. In each door, a modified seat switch container includes single-piece chrome ‘highlight’ switches.
In true, contemporary Jaguar fashion, the good deal of applicable and discerning technology is controlled by a transparent as well as elegant seven-inch Touch-screen in the centre console. A Touch-screen provides entrance as well as control for a Climate Control and Audio systems, for a Satellite Navigation System, for Bluetooth mobile connectivity, and for Jaguar’s Unstable Audio Interface – which are all customary equipment. The satellite navigation complement offers DVD mapping, postcode entrance, as well as the traffic summary channel. A Portable Audio Interface offers iPod connectivity, as well as the connection of other storage devices by the USB port, to the in-car receptivetoadvice system, with full Touch-screen control.
The audio system for the brandnew XKR is the ultimate Bowers & Wilkins 525-watt system with Dolby® ProLogic®II Surround Sound, three-channel stereo with unique amplifier, Kevlar mid-range speakers with high outlay as well as low distortion, and specifically designed aluminium tweeters.
Depending upon market, the series of Digital Radio options have been available: HD airwave is accessible for North American market cars, SDARS satellite radio for North America as well as Canada, as well as Digital Audio Report (DAB) is offering in selected European markets.
