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What makes a champion? Jaguar’s new XJL was the clear winner of Professional Driver’s Car of the Year Award for 2010 – both the outright crown and the Chauffeur Car of the Year Award.
Nissan has in recent years shifted its focus away from the traditional mainstream sectors of the car market, and instead has focused on the ‘lifestyle’ market, through cars such as the Qashqai, and the new Cube and Juke models.
Finally, it’s the moment of truth. Since Jaguar unveiled the new XJ at London’s Saatchi Gallery last July, they’ve taken it to shows, let us crawl over it, shown us round the factory – and even let us photograph a non-running prototype for Professional Driver’s front cover last September.
At first glance, Jaguar’s new XJ couldn’t be further removed from the car it replaces. While the new model is low-slung and futuristic, the outgoing XJ was resolutely retro, with classic lines that showed a direct lineage to the original XJ of 1968.
Ford has played a clever hand in the large MPV sector. The mainstream family car market migrated toward smaller, more lifestyle-oriented cars such as Vauxhall Zafira and Renault Scenic. And while the UK’s market leader followed this trend with e C-Max and S-Max models, it cannily kept a foot in the pig people-mover camp by creating a new, second-generation Galaxy.
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