Ok we all know most people prefer the looks of the 96-06 XK8 / XKR over the 07-11 XK8/XKR. I personally think the 96-06 XK8/XKR X100 Body is better looking then the 07-11 XK/XKR. Of course Jaguar updated the styling for the 2012 XK/XKR X150 Body. Far as looks concerned is the 2012 XK/XKR/XKR-S a Successor to the X100 Body Style ?

Heres some pics of the new 2012 XKR-S

 

As I posted over on the XK area, I wonder where I have seen that front before. . .


Doug

 

There is nothing here I'd buy - even if I could - that would replace the beauty and simplicity of design of my 2002 XKR. DaleD

 

The 2012 body is GORGEOUS

 

Granted! So Let's Discuss - that new at $100K vs. one of ours at $10-20K?

I've no answers... DaleD

 

I prefer the 2012 to the 2007 but I still prefer the X100, I just want that 5.0ltr lump in my XK, alas too much to consider right now, I will wait until the after market ECU boys catch up then I might have a play

 

I don't know about that. It really just looks like a ricefied evolution of the previous body style. And I recall when the previous body style came out, the consensus was mostly that the style kind of "grew" on you. When the XK8/XKR first came out, it was instantly acknowledged as beautiful and it didn't take any time at all for the style to "grow" for people.


Doug

 

I Don't like it. It sure seems like Jaguar is trying their best to make their new models blend in rather than stand out. I agree with Doug. It looks like a Mitsubishi.

 

I think the looks of the 00-06 XKR is better than the 07-11 XKR. However the 2012 XKR update styling of the X150 is Gorgeous. Everybody has there own opinion the X100 will always be my favorite body style of the XK series. But the classic Jaguar styling is the best and it appears in the 2012 XK X150 styling update.

 

I don't care for the XKRS; too vulgar, too boy-racer. I think the X100 looks classier than the X150 (except for its huge ****...), but I'd still rather have a 2012 XKR if I could afford one just because it's dynamically a better car.

 

More and more I think the XKR (X100) is better looking than the XKR (X150) . The X100 is iconic and a masterpiece. Yes I like the XKR (X150) and if I can afford one I would definitely buy one and will eventually.

 

I thought this was going to be the 2013 re-design, but haven't seen anything lately to confirm that. The front of the XK's was made taller in '07 to conform with a new European regulation concerning pedestrian impact, so it's here to stay. The design below seems to conform with the reg also. I was a bit excited when I first saw this re-design, but now not so much. Guess it didn't grow on me.

 

Yes and the butt looks like an Audi a5.

 

Now that you mention it, it does!

Doug

 

The problem is they've plastered it with unnecessary tat: carbon fibre splitters, vents, wings, spoilers, badges, scoops, ugly black wheels, LED lights... All this may be fashionable, but the car loses all its class.

 

In other words--ricefied!

Doug

 

Ah yes, to ricefy. That was the verb I was looking for

 

Now you got it. The only thing they left off is the big letter R that you used to see (still see?) on the rear quarter-panels of some of the Asian rice-burners. Having the letter on the car alone was worth 5, maybe 10 horsepower!


Doug

 

granted, it's an improvement over the '07 model, but it still looks too much like an aston for my taste. the e-type body style, and subsequently the '96-'06 xk8/xkr, will always be the definitive look for the jaguar sport model; though the xjs was nice too. i didn't however know that the raised nose, which is one of the major changes that left it looking like an aston in my mind, was due to a new european ped impact regulation. just another way the world is trying to force art to be ugly. ;-)

 

I reckon this MG is running about 1200hp.