Filed under: Performance, Wagon, Geneva Motor Show, Europe, Jaguar, Luxury



Oh look, another super-hot wagon that won't be making its way to the US. Awesome.

Actually, in all honesty, it really is awesome. Meet the Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake, a red-hot (or blue-hot?) version of the rakish XF wagon that originally bowed at the Geneva Motor Show back in 2012. The formula here is pretty much plug-and-play: take the 5.0-liter supercharged V8 from the XFR-S and shove it in the wagon body, and add all of the necessary visual flair fitting of a properly powerful Jag. The end result is an estate that packs 542 horsepower, 502 pound-feet of torque, and the ability to sprint to 60 miles per hour in a scant 4.6 seconds. Meow.

This Jaguar joins a growing segment of ultra-hot wagons in Europe, rounded out by offerings like the Audi RS6 Avant and the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG longroof - the latter of which you can actually buy in North America. Sounds like the sort of comparison test we'd love to facilitate. Guess we'll have to leave that to our friends at Autocar, though.Continue reading 2014 Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake is one hot hauler

2014 Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake is one hot hauler originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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Put a trailer hitch on that baby and now we are talking business!

 

Can anyone explain the origin of the name "sport brake?" To me, that is the weirdest name for a car - I could understand Sportwagon or Sporthaul or Sportcarrier, but Sportbrake? The term is almost an oxymoron.

 

We call it them station wagons, the Brits call them shooting brakes. Sportbrake is based on that. Shooting-brake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

How about that - I had never heard the term before. Still seems weird though.