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Old 20-12-2006, 09:13 AM   #1
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Default Top Gear Car of Year - Jaguar XK
Good news for Ford with PAG taking out Car of the Year and GT of the year with the Jaguar XK and the Freelander 2 stepping up to take the SUV of the year for LandRover. S-Max took the Big?Car of the year award for Ford too.


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» Jaguar XK is Top Gear’s Car Of The Year
13-12-06
Wheels news
Words - Chris Gable


Announced in its magazine spin-off, the cult TV show has given the XK both its headline award and GT Of The Year.


Top Gear has given both its Car Of The Year and GT Of The Year awards to Jaguar’s XK.

The awards, announced in London last week and presented by the TV show’s host, Jeremy Clarkson, also included Car Of The Year gongs for:

SUV – Land Rover Freelander 2
Small Car – Mini Cooper S
Supercar – Lamborghini Gallardo
Roadster – Mazda MX-5 RC
Coupe – Audi TT
Big Car – Ford S-Max
Family Car – Citroen C4 Picasso
Sports Car – BMW Z4 Coupe
Executive Car – Citroen C6
Limo – Lexus LS600h

While awarding the top gong to Jaguar’s Ian Callum, Top Gear magazine editor, Michael Harvey said: “We feel justified in handing our big one to the fabulous XK, a car everyone now recognises as magnificently beautiful, that reclaims the lost role of the Grand Tourer and, we suspect, might reclaim the art of ride/handling compromise in the portfolio of skills any purveyor of so-called luxury cars must possess.”

The magazine's editor in the US, Jamie Kitman was equally effusive: “This is not only the best Jaguar in 40 years, it is a real Jaguar; one knows it in seconds. Jaguar has thoroughly demonstrated with the XK that it is an utterly serious modern engineering entity with a priceless institutional memory of that which made Jaguars great.”

Jaguar’s Design Director Callum (pictured with the car) said all the right things: “It was a tremendous honour to receive this award for the XK and for Jaguar to be recognised for creating such an accomplished vehicle by real enthusiasts such as Top Gear. I feel very proud of everyone at Jaguar responsible for their contribution to the success of this car.”

The magazine/TV show’s website features a video roundup of the top contenders for the award.
For anyone interested I posted the Wheels sister story on the Volvo XC60 Concept SUV in the Territory forum. Seems to have some Mondeo and IosisX styling cues to it.

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Old 20-12-2006, 09:16 AM   #2
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I love my Top Gear, but its so biased towards English stuff its ridiculous. XK is a nice car indeed.
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Old 20-12-2006, 11:03 AM   #3
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lol whens the last time a jag won an award? e-type :\?
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Old 20-12-2006, 03:07 PM   #4
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I love my Top Gear, but its so biased towards English stuff its ridiculous. XK is a nice car indeed.
Too true. Everything British is good, everything American is bad. I guess there's nothing wrong with being patriotic though, we Australians stick up for our own. The XKR is supposed to be a massive improvement over the basic XK, Wheels raved about it.
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Yeah but how much did the Top Gear boy's love the Monaro (Vauxhaul (spelling?)). They might be biased but they give a good car a good wrap!
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Old 20-12-2006, 05:20 PM   #6
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To me, the new XK looks like a Hyundai Tiburon. I say this with a heavy heart as I am a dedicated Jagista. The previous XK look liked a Jag (yes, it also looked like DB7). Very disappointed!


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Old 20-12-2006, 06:51 PM   #7
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A good winner in my books and we all know everything american is crap/bad
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The XK is pretty awsome, I still like the back lights of the DB9 more and apart from that they look pretty similar and I never liked the front of either of them.
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Just on a sidenote i read in the latest Blueprint mag that FPV will be a naming sponsor for Top Gear in the up coming series so expect to see FPV adverts in the program. It mentioned that it will be aired on BBC World on Fox.
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To me, the new XK looks like a Hyundai Tiburon. I say this with a heavy heart as I am a dedicated Jagista. The previous XK look liked a Jag (yes, it also looked like DB7). Very disappointed!


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I agree, I really find the styling very bland and boring... :

Does it still run Lucas electrics? :
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I agree with Lumpy a bit, I wouldn't call it ugly, but it could have been so much better, eg look at the Aston V8 Vantage for a really good looking car. Hopefully they give it a facelift
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