Why, yes, we intend to start off this post about spy photos of a hot new Jaguar XF Sportbrake variant with a reference to the 1985 Atlantic Starr single “Secret Lovers.” You see, we fancy Jaguar’s gorgeous, not-for-the-U.S. XF Sportbrake wagon to be our secret automobile lover—at least in our minds, and unbeknownst to our (human) significant others. As if our unspoken bond couldn’t get any stronger, along comes these photos of an ultra-hot XFR-S Sportbrake testing near the Nürburgring in Germany. How do we know it’s an XFR-S? Jaguar apparently didn’t see fit to remove the badge from this partially camouflaged example, that’s how.
- Instrumented Test: 2013 Jaguar XF 2.0T
- Instrumented Test: 2013 Jaguar XJ 3.0 V6
- First Drive: 2014 Jaguar F-type
For those not in the know, the R-S appended to the XF name implies this Sportbrake will get the same 550-hp, supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 that powers the limited-production 2014 Jaguar XFR-S sedan that will be sold here. These spy photos clearly show it will get the same body dress-up bits as the sedan, only with the ability to stuff more junk in its shapely trunk. Will this XFR-S Sportbrake be sold here? Not a chance, and again we’ll defer to Atlantic Starr to paraphrase our tenuous Jaguar wagon connection: Secret lovers, yeah, that’s what we are . . . we shouldn’t be together, but we can’t let go, no, no . . . ’cause we love each other so . . . ooh ooh!
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