I went into the Jaguar dealership today to make an appointment for my first annual service. They have a 2014 XKR with performance quilted seats. I never seen quilted factory seats before in the XKR. They looked absolutely stunning-Black with cranberry red stitching. I don't see quilted seats as an option on the Jaguar website. Anyone know anything about quilted seats as an option? When I go in for my service in 2 weeks I'll take some pictures and post them. Attached are some pictures of custom made quilted seats from Leather Car Seats in the UK.

 

Looks like the quilted seats come from the Jaguar Project 7 car. The Project 7 car has the quilted seats.....here's an excerp from a recent article on Jaguar Project 7.

"the Project 7 cabin also lowers the driver’s seat 1.2 inches. "Quilted leather" and plenty of carbon-fiber trim is used liberally throughout the interior.

Read more: Jaguar Project 7 sports car to make its debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed - NY Daily News

We may also see "diamond-quilted leather" door panels also in the future. This is another feature of the project 7 sports car.

 

Those are not performance seats, just quilted standard seats.

 

Please re-read post. Pictures are from a custom shop in the UK that fitted an XJ.

 

Yep, I see now. Do you have any pictures of the quilted performance seats you saw at the dealer?

 

Looks like they got the idea from the Jaguar Project 7 car. They don't need to be performance seats to be quilted.

 

When I go back for my service visit I'll snap some pictures. The quilted leather center looks real sweet--front and back seats . I'm not sure if the door panel was quilted also.

 

Where are you based? Canada is vast! If you're not too far, I could stop by to have a look..

Guy

 

Halifax, Nova Scotia. I'll post some pictures of the seats soon. I have apartment buildings in the area and drive by the dealership on a regular basis.

 

The contrast with quilting looks out of place to me. If it was a single color it would look much better IMO. I like the contrast stitching.

 

When you take the pics pay attention to whether or not they also include the perforations for a cooled seat.

I don't know if the quilting will allow those perforations to be in the leather. Just curious to know how this was handled.

TIA

 

My opinion is....those look like i bought moving blankets and had them sewn into my jaguar seats. Wheres the barf icon

 

Yup.

 

Which would you prefer of the pictures. Use your imagination to picture the XKR seats finished like the XJ seats with the quilted center.

 

Prefer the regular "pure leather, non quilted" seats.

Just don't like the look, but many others just might like them.

 

I believe they look like this (which are sweet):

 

These seats are part of the updated (for 2014) XKR Performance Pack, or an option on the XKR-S. "Diamond Sew" is on the Performance Seats only, so ventilation/cooling is not available. Colors are Charcoal/Red Stitch, Charcoal/Charcoal Stitch, and Ivory/Ivory Stitch; seems like they would look amazing in Caramel, but no such luck. Door Panels are unchanged (no quilting). The XKR Performance Pack also now includes a Suedecloth steering wheel. The switch from the polished Vulcan to the black/diamond-turned Vortex is...unfortunate. Generally Jaguar OEM wheel designs are fantastic, but they have a few real dogs in the line-up.

 

I like the ventilated unquilted seats

 

The Jaguar website, "build your car", says nothing about a performance pack? This sounds more like an interior pack--no suspension upgrade, no tuning upgrade, no exhaust upgrade, no adaptive dynamics upgrade, no tires upgrade. I do like the quilted interior look. The suede steering wheel will get real dirty. Would be nice for the steering wheel to have a flat bottom and hand position mouldings like the Arden(sp) steering wheel. Where did you find this info?

 

Sorry don't like the two tone look but all one color is nice.