Geneva 2010: Jaguar XKR Special Book gives aged cat additional holdup
Jaguar loves to unwrap auto show goodies, as well as a city by the lake hasn’t been left out of a cat’s bag. A Jaguar XKR Special Edition is a supercharged coupe which will take you all the way to 174 miles per hour – none of that electronanny 155 mph, appreciate you – interjection to the supercharged, 510-horsepower, 5.0-liter V8.
A Speed Container and Black Packs, both options upon the unchanging XK, will have you feel and demeanour faster, as well as the tailored XK suitcase will make you look just solid better when all the speediness stops. Have a gander at the untamed white feline in a high-res art studio next.
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Show full PR textThe Brandnew 2011 XKR during a glance
The ultimate generation of Jaguar’s award-winning XKR sports coupe now offers business even larger choice interjection to the new Special Book indication as well as dual discretionary opening and styling packs:
* A new XKR with optional Black Pack for combined visual impact
* A new XKR with optional Speed Pack for the significantly increased limit speed
* A XKR Special Edition, that combines both packs to create the ultimate supercharged sports coupe.
A 2011 Indication Year XKR facilities the acclaimed AJ-V8 Gen III R direct-injection engine – a 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, a maximum speed of the XKR is lifted from 155mph (250km/h) to an electronically limited 174mph (280km/h) interjection to recalibration of the engine management complement.
The New 2011 XKR during the peek
Brandnew discretionary Black Container allows business to create the bold, extrovert XKR, with the further of thespian gloss black 20-inch Kalimnos amalgamate wheels, gloss black finish to the front air grilles as well as side Power Vents, red stop callipers, the body-coloured aerodynamic container Togetherwith the front chin spoiler and larger rear spoiler) and an optional ‘XKR’ body side striking along a l ower sills.
State-of-the-art six-speed automatic transmission has seamless gearshifts, while an advanced Active Differential Carryout and Adaptive Dynamics suspension system further optimises traction and doing.
The XKR’s advanced aluminium physique design is strong and lightweight as well as the key to maximising a car’s performance, energetic lively, rival CO2 emissions as well as fuel economy.
Improved CO2 emissions opening (Euro Theatre V agreeable dual years for ward of legislative requirement) and fuel saving comparable to a previous 4.2-litre XKR engine.
A 2011 XKR remains true to a birthright of Jaguar’s legendary performance, delivering a superb balance of dynamic ability and refinement.
Sparkling user-friendly technologies such as the JaguarDrive Selector™ further enhance performance, driving dynamics as well as the XKR’s luxury sporting impression.
The brandnew XKR Special Book with Speed as well as Black Packs is denounced at a 2010 Geneva Motor Uncover on Mar 4th, 2010.
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Jaguar unveil s the ultimate XKR Special Book
Jaguar will unveil the ultimate dramatic evolution of its supercharged XKR coupe at the Geneva Motor Show. A overwhelming new XKR Special Book delivers the significantly raised maximum speed – 174mph (280km/h) – and bold e xterior styling changes that emanate a ultimate supercharged Jaguar.
The XKR Special Edition combines the number of new facilities and option packs which have been introduced to a XK operation at 2011 Model Year. Jaguar customers have the choice to personalise their car by office building on the existent XKR package to deliver a car that offers even greater opening without sacrificing the refinement and oppulance for which every Jaguar is renowned.
Introduced last year, a XKR boasts a state-of-the-art 5.0-litre supercharged AJ-V8 Gen III R engine which delivers 510PS (510bhp SAE), 625Nm of torque and propels the coupe to 60mph in only 4.6 seconds. Now, in Special Edition guise, the XKR’s top speed climbs significantly from an electronically singular 155mph (250km/h) to 174mph (280km/h) thanks to a further of the Speed Pack. Associated to which remarkable engine is an modernized six-speed automatic transmission with steering-wheel mounted paddles, lightweight aluminium body makeup as well as the range of computer-controlled systems togetherwith Active Differential Control and Adaptive Dynamics which safeguard a supercharged car accelerates even faster, handles even more precisely as well as sets new standards of float and joy.
The benefits of the XKR’s lightweight though unbending and clever advanced all aluminium body are already acknowledged. Not only does this design move energetic benefits interjection to the torsional rigidity, it also offers excellent safety as well as crash repair facilities and provides the preferred base to improve performance across the board – including optimised fuel economy as well as CO2 emissions. Thanks to the multiple of excellent powertrain efficiency and a XKR’s advanced lightweight body design, its fuel saving is comparable to a previous generation of XKR – despite a significant increases in power as well as opening.
A XKR Special Edition pairs the discretionary Speed as well as Black Packs to create a confidant new model unveiled in Geneva, that also sports optional Piano Black veneers upon a dashboard and red brake callipers. Both choice packs are also available separately for customers who seek to personalise their cars in terms of either styling or one more performance. Whatever multiple is chosen, every XKR delivers that classic Jaguar blend of seductive, absolute and elegant looks, beautifully finished int eriors and even some-more extensive selection.
A motorist is the centre of attention in the XKR Special Edition, with sparkling new facilities including the acclaimed JaguarDrive Selector™, and tall levels of selection such as a 7-inch Touch-Screen, 16-way exhilarated and cooled mentalrecall seats, Jet Suedecloth reward headlining and Flint Grey premium runner. In further, the bespoke brandnew Jaguar XK container (which will be available as an choice for all XK models) has been fashioned for the XKR Special Book. From 2010, a Jaguar XK range (UK and certain European markets usually will be fitted with a tyre correct Present Mobility Complement. By adopting IMS upon all models, a XK frees up its 30-litre wheel good, which is rightaway carpeted as well as can hold the specially designed as well as tailored XK accessory suitcase, al most increasing the flexibility of a automobile.
A NEW 2011 XKR CHOICE PACKS
The brandnew 2011 Jaguar XKR Special Book consists of dual new styling and opening packs – a Speed and Black Pack. Both are accessible to XKR coupe customers separately as well as provide new levels of styling and performance for owners looking to further personalise their Jaguar.
The XKR Speed Pack
A XKR with brandnew o ptional Speed Pack allows customers to further strengthen their XKR’s already considerable breadth of capability, by fluctuating a car’s tip speed from 155mph (250km/h) to an electronically limited 174mph (280km/h), thanks to the unique engine as well as delivery recalibration.
To ensure a XKR with Speed Pack remains stable at high speeds, a coupe uses a revised front aerodynamic splitter and larger back spoiler to yield increasing change as well as a reduction in lift. The XKR’s computerised Active Differential Carryout also adjusts to reduce steering sensitivity at very tall speeds, further mending stability and driver control.
Customers who order a XKR coupe with the Speed Pack will be offering a paint palette that is partial of the Jaguar Designers’ Preference programme – a range of colours that have been privately chosen to compliment the opening potential of the car. 7 colours are accessible on Speed Pack models – Idealisation Black, Polaris White, Salsa Red, Glass Silver, Lunar Grey, Kyanite Blue and Spectrum Blue.
Every XKR with the Speed Pack will come with body-coloured side sills and back diffuser, and a chrome finish to the window surrounds, upper and lower filigree grilles, side Energy Vents and b oot lid finisher. Red brake callipers with a Jaguar ‘R’ logo lay inside 20-inch Kasuga amalgamate wheels.
By raising the XKR’s limit speed the brandnew automobile has extended the sporting credentials, taking it even serve into supercar performance domain. Russ Varney, Chief Programme Engineer, XK Series, explains a philosophy at the back of the uprated XKR:
“With 510PS as well as 625Nm of torque, the XKR has immense reserves of energy as well as acceleration which impress everybody who knowledge it. The automobile has always had the intensity to reach speeds far over its original electronically singular maximum and many of the customers have voiced an interest in the automobile that can safely be driven faster where conditions permit. The brandnew Speed Container allows them to release some of which potential and give them cont rol of a fastest Jaguar XK we’ve done to date.”
The performance potential of the supercharged AJ-V8 Gen III R engine comes courtesy of the rarely advanced design. A all-aluminium four-cam power unit has the number of features that broach power with really tall efficiency, togetherwith spray-guided direct injection (SGDI), that improves opening as well as economy, and dual eccentric variable cam timing (DIVCT), that benefits opening as well as economy, while additionally shortening emissions.
A AJ-V8 engine is built around a stiff, aluminium retard with cast-in iron liners and cross-bolted categorical temperament caps to revoke sound, quivering as well as rudeness. A retard is high vigour die-cast, providing a superior finish and greater dimensional correctness. The engine uses aluminium heads, with 4 valves per cylinder and spheroidal-graphite cast-iron crankshafts and forged steel joining rods. A cylinder heads for a initial time have been specified with the delegate (recycled) aluminium alloy thus reducing a environmental stroke of manufacturing a brandnew engine.
A sixth-generation, identicaltiwn vortex system supercharger is fitted to the XKR’s 510PS engine. It is the compress Roots-type section, feeding air by twin intercoolers, which in spin are water-cooled by their own watchful cooling circuit. The tall helix rotor pattern improves the supercharger thermodynamic efficiency by some-more than 20 percent over its predecessor. It also improves noise quality to a indicate where a unit is virtually stammering (making supercharger whine the thing of a past). The intercoolers revoke a temperature of the pressurised intake-air as well as so optimise energy and potency. Mechanically, a new supercharger and the intercoolers have been well packaged in a ‘V’ of the engine to deliver the lower altogether engine height in await of pedestrian safety mandate.
An industry-first, centrally-mounted, six-hole, spray-guided fuel injection complement delivers fuel at the vigour of up to 150bar without delay to the cylinder. This substantially contributes to softened low-speed, energetic reply. A positioning of a injectors ensures fuel is precisely delivered to the centre of the explosion cover, maximising air-fuel mixing and mending combustion control. Fuel is delivered through twin, high-pressure fuel pumps that are driven around an auxiliary shaft in a all-new engine retard.
The assign cooling effects of the direct-injection fuel complement have allowed the compression ratio of the supercharged engine to enlarge from 9.1:1 to 9.5:1, further optimising fuel economy. During a engine warm-up proviso, the combustion system employs mixed injection mode strategies to broach 50 percent more heat for fast catalyst warm-up and emissions rebate.
THE brandnew type of variable camshaft timing (VCT) complement introduces an additional new record. The 4 VCT units are activated by the positive and negative torques generated by opening and closing the intake and empty valves, instead of by oil vigour. This has authorised the engine oil pump to be reduced in distance, saving appetite and improving fuel expenditure.
VCT units work exclusively upon all 4 camshafts with 62 degrees of authority on the inlet cams and 50 degrees of authority upon the empty cams. Timing is optimised by the engine control section for torque, power and saving at every point in a engine’s speed operation. The brandnew VCT units have been capable of a reply rate up to three times faster than in previous Jaguar engines, with ac tuation rates in excess of 150 degrees per second. This delivers a more evident engine reply to a driver’s demand for power.
Minimising inner friction is key to improving fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, and as such was a pass aim when it came to a design of a engines. As a result, the brandnew Jaguar AJ-V8 Gen III engines achieve an additional best in category, environment a brandnew attention benchmark for cranktrain efficiency.
All engine bearings were engineered for reduced friction without compromising reliability. Diamond-Like Carbon Cloaking (DLC) has been used to revoke friction on the fuel pump tappets as well as the solid film lubricant has been used to coat a piston skirts. New engine oil has a reduce viscosi ty, contributing to an extension in
service intervals from 10,000 miles to 15,000 miles (or 12 months). A V8 engine is propitious with an electronic oil-level indicator for added peace of mind.
Receptivetoadvice quality is a key evil of all Jaguars and is one sold aspect which c ustomers penchant. With which in mind, Jaguar engineers have accentuated the acoustic feedback into a cabin in sequence to further enhance the driving pleasure.
In addition to a fully active exhaust complement in that valves open to provide a some-more rewarding note, the brandnew XKR has been engineered to yield an intake feedback system to raise a V8 receptivetoadvice impression ordinarily absent upon supercharged engines. Moneycomingin manifold vigour pulsations have been fed into an acoustic filter at a back of the engine that is tuned to provide an irritable sports car ‘crescendo’ during tall revs. A filter is controlled by a engine government system, which only allows the sound to enter the cabin under a suitable driving conditions.
The new intake feedback system total with the fully active exhaust syst em provides the most exhilarating auditory experience yet delivered upon a Jaguar.
A XKR Black Container
For customers looking to create a genuine matter with their XKR, a brandnew discretionary Black Pack allows them to own the bold as well as eloquent Jaguar with definite visible stroke interjection to menacing gloss black wheels as well as exterior detailing.
Similarto the Speed Pack, XKRs propitious with the Black Pack have the paint palette that is restricted to colours that Jaguar’s P attern team believe to be preferred for creating a coupe with immediate exclusivity. The Black Pack models will be available in Idealisation Black, Polaris White or Salsa Red as well as boast eye-catching 20-inch gloss black Kalimnos alloy wheels. Further shimmer black finishing is applied to the window surrounds, front grilles as well as side Power Vents. Optional red embellished brake callipers contrast strongly with the black alloy wheels, while body coloured front and back spoilers as well as foot lid finisher round out the package. Customers also have the option to apply a sweeping ‘XKR’ side physique graphic which runs along the doorway sills.
Jaguar’s Pattern Executive, Ian Callum, says a brandnew Black Container is the fitting addition to a XKR:
“While Jaguars are about beauty, they have been also abo ut speed and power. With a optional Black Pack you can now add a sense of drama and astringency to that performance.”
In further to the Blac k Pack’s exterior changes, a Jaguar Designers’ Preference programme has als o comparison the operation of interior trims that support a visible impact of the car. All XKRs with the Black Container will be trimmed with Charcoal tannedhide hides which can be personalised with the operation of colour stitching and grain. Three interior finishes and veneers for the fascia as well as door trims have been also available – Dim Ash, Dark Mesh Aluminium as well as Piano Black.
Whatever interior trim is selected, the XKR’s cabin is justification of contemporary, sporting oppulance, exceptional quality of craftsmanship, and Jaguar’s renowned courtesy to detail. A interior is purify, superb and atmospheric, as well as stays entirely in harmony with the sporting character of the revised extraneous.
The latest feature enhancements have been showcased by the JaguarDrive Selector™, that is neatly and elegantly packaged in a centre console. First seen upon the Jaguar XF tavern, a JaguarDrive Selector™ facilities a rotary shift control which rises into the driver’s hand as the automobile is started, to give intuitive, ergonomically fit delivery control from the neat, space-efficient interface.
A selector is, in fact, much some-more than only an unobtrusive yet utterly unsentimental solution to selecting an involuntary gear mode. It additionally imbues a car with the clever driver ‘handshake’ – get into an XKR and the start symbol in front of the JaguarDrive Selector™ pulses red, like a heartbeat; press this button to start the engine and the cast alloy JaguarDrive Selector™ rises into a palm of your palm.
From there, involuntary transmission functions have been selected simply by turning the control with a fingertips. As an example, Drive to Expostulate Competition preference is accomplished with a elementary push and turn movement. Returning from S to D, the rotary control operates with spring-assistance, that eliminates the need to pull the Selector. It couldn’t be easier. And when the engine is stopped, the JaguarDrive Selector™ returns automatically to the Park onallsides.
The welcome to a car is additionally enhanced by bright treadplate inserts. Many of a other changes emphasise tall levels of Jaguar craftsmanship with jewel-like touches. The three-spoke steering wheel contains the leather-wrapped lower spoke, and Jaguar’s distinguished ‘growler’ badge. A XKR’s instruments further emphasize the car’s opening impression with red pointers and white enlightenment.
The doorway casings have been even more luxuriously crafted than before, with saddle-stitched lines and the new interlayer to give a softer touch to the tip shoulder of the surrounding. A tannedhide doorway pulls also introduce
twin-needle stitching as well as a soft-feel interlayer. In any door, the modified seat switch container in cludes sin gle-piece chrome Prominence’ switches.
In true, contemporary Jaguar conform, a good de al of relevant and discerning technology is tranquil by a clear as well as superb seven-inch Touch-screen in the centre console. A Touch-screen provides access and control for the Climate Control and Audio systems, for a Heavenlybody Navigation Complement, for Bluetooth mobile connectivity, as well as for Jaguar’s Unstable Audio Interface – that are all customary equipment. A satellite navigation system offers DVD mapping, postcode entry, and a trade message channel. The Portable Audio Interface offers iPod connectivity, and the tie of alternative storage devices by a USB pier, to a in-car receptivetoadvice complement, with full Touch-screen control.
The audio system for the brandnew XKR is a ultimate Bowers & Wilkins 525-watt complement with Dolby® ProLogic®II Surround Sound, three-channel stereo with singular amplifier, Kevlar mid-range speakers with high output as well as low exaggeration, and specially written aluminium tweeters.
Depending upon market, a series of Digital Radio options are accessible: HD radio is accessible for North American marketplace cars, SDARS satellite radio for North America and Canada, and Digital Audio Report (DAB) is offered in comparison European markets.
