XF Oozes Luxury and Fits the Family

2010 Jaguar XF Premium Luxury

model as tested $63,875

Test Drove 7/13/09 – 7/21/09
reviewed by Kristin Varela

What type of lifestyle would you have if you owned a Jaguar? A life of privileged opulence that includes your chauffer taking your kids to school in the morning, transporting you to your weekly mani/pedi and then a visit to your style consultant at Nordstrom? If you owned a 2010 Jag XF Premium Luxury, you’d want to fire the chauffer and drive this beauty yourself (keep the mani/pedi and style consultant, though).

During my week in this car, I got compliments out the ying-yang. Actually, the car got the compliments, including “Wow! What a beauty” to “It looks like a Maserati.” The best line of all was “Your ass looks great in that car.” (It’d be crude if it came from a stranger, but it was from a close friend who pulled up behind me at a stoplight; I found it highly entertaining.)

The best part of the XF is I didn’t have to sacrifice mom-function, pleasurable drivability, safety or luxury for those extra — albeit pricey — style points. The XF is smooth as butter to drive; that’s not margarine I’m talking about, but pure, rich, creamy European butter from cows grazing in fields lined with French lavender. It’s powerful and responsive; when driving it, the XF feels smaller than it actually is.

The strange rotary knob gear selector takes a little brain re-training at first, but I loved it by the end of my week of test driving. The XF is different enough from any other car I’ve driven that it just feels expensive. I can imagine this car being a perfect fit for someone needing to maintain a high-end professional appearance while juggling parenthood (a real estate agent or executive who occasionally drives clients or colleagues to lunch meetings).

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