Attended the Toronto Auto Show this morning and took this pic of the seats in 2014 XKR. Beautiful.

 

Looks like the performance sports seats with diamond cross stitching.

How was the show?

 

Yeah I likey!!!! Looks very Aston Martin like. CLASSY!!!

 

I especially like them in light tan

 

The cars were pretty and the girls were prettier. The Japanese and South Koreans have some promising concepts, bu the best looking thing I saw there was the Jaguar C-X17. The interior is spectacular. I couldn't get close enough to it to take better pics, but this is the best I could do. Rear bucket seats.

 

+1


I seen these at my local dealer a few months ago and posted a thread on them "quilted seats". They really look good and give the interior a much needed boost. I tried to make my standard luxury seats look like them but it will not work using covers. If I could get a set of them cheap I would.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-seats-104945/

 

Those look great, I love the diamond stitching

 

They are probably around 3k a seat through the parts department. Let me see what I can find.

 

Just keep in mind they are not cooled, but I love the look and I'm sure they feel great! I'll know more in the morning.

 

I must be the only one who thinks those seats look weird. I guess now that they have a sports car in the lineup, they can really play up the touring aspects of the XK.

 

Yeah, that kind of sucks. the Jaguar cooled seats are top notch. I still prefer the diamond stitching and besides I live in an igloo in Canada.

 

They come with the 2014 XKR Performance Pack:

This package brings together some of the most popular performance equipment at an excellent value compared to standalone options.

Included are: Performance seats in Diamond Sew stitch pattern, Performance Active Exhaust and Jet Suedecloth steering wheel.

The Diamond Sew stitch pattern on the front seat backrests and head restraints, and the on the rear-seat backrests, is available in Charcoal with Red contrast stitch, Charcoal with Ivory contrast stitch, or Ivory with Ivory stitch. The Performance Pack, which is available with select exterior colors only, can also be combined with the Black Pack and the Dynamic Pack.

Change to cost of car will be: $3,400¹

They can also be ordered separately for $3400.

 

You can double that for the part department I paid 1K for the Alcantara wheel from terrys jag and retail was 1710, for a 700 option.

I'm sure the seats are 3k each plus you have the rears to worry about as well.

 

I don't think that Jaguar sells the seats as an assembly. You would need to buy them in pieces.

 

I bet each seat, complete, buying all the individual parts, frame, covers, airbag, electrical harness, etc. will be over $7,000: 2013 Jaguar XKR-S Parts - Direct JPLV Porsche Parts.com Holy crap, next time you set in your driver's seat you'll feel like your setting in a $7,000 seat.


The only way to get the seats, which would make economical sense, is from a salvage yard parting out a 2014 XK or XKR with the performance pack or optioned seats. I very rare and unlikely find.

 

Not gonna happen..like you said. The uneconomical way would be to buy one in a few years and yet trade in a currrent Jag for it.... eeeek! Thats gonna cost way more then 7000 dollars I think. Nope..these fantastic seats are for someone else

 

I saw these as a whole seat brand new somewhere I just need to find the link. The 2013 models were around 3k a seat, I just need go through my parts list again.

 

well since I have bought my XKR-S in January and have not tried the cooling function are the "performance seats" cooled ... ? They did not look perforated to me but that is just a guess here at work right now ... but as far as I remember there was just heating bars next to the seat on the center display not cooling like in my XF. I might be wrong but I believe none of the perfomance seats have cooling ....

for most cars it is not uncommon to pay upwards of $6K or even $13K for seats but that usually means a much lighter carbon fiber shell to save some serious weight, not just a deviated stitching of the surface ...

 

These seats are not cooled and is why I'm happy with the feel of the standard seat. If you try to select cool it's greyed out and will not work.

Living in south florida cooled seats are a must April through November and even in the Winter, but I absolutley love the diamond pattern. I was looking at RS7s before my XKR and those seats just make the interor look that much better.

 

These seats look cool (great) and I saw them on a XKR as an option package. I do agree that the non-cool feature kind of takes away from wanting them. Although here up north it wouldn't be a problem but with global warming coming our way I would want the cooling feature .