Comments on: Jaguar XJ Diesel still Britain’s Greenest Luxury car

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:15:50 +0000

We heard it from good authority that the 3.0 unit is a dead set cracker!

By: No Name

No Name — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:09:59 +0000

Aawww Come on Captain you old sourpus. Take the result as an indication of the wonderful fuel efficieny of a diesel engine.
Oh by the way Jaguar are shortly to replace this wonderful engine with a 3.0 litre version.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:23:04 +0000

if Ford could achieve these fuel efficiency numbers in a Falcon and Territory then it will have a real alternative to the “petrol” hybrids planned by GM and Toyota for our market!….BUT…..Ford must not put anything less than a state of the art diesel in these cars or it will lose the battle against the hybrids!!!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:58:38 +0000

My current issue of Top Gear says that it does 34 MPG and emits 214 grams per km. Still excellent for a car ths size but I’d like to hear more and also where you got this info. I dont know if theyve done some tweaking but thats alot of tweaking for an engine thats about 10 years old (to my knowledge). This just doesnt seem right also because if they could do this to the engine than the RR Sport should have much much better CO2 and MPG but it doesnt. I guess that all the people who want this engine in the ford arnt gonna get it now! Kinda sucks really… but they dont have ties to ford anymore and I dont think that ford can use the engines now that TaTa have them. Not sure.

By: Captain Mainwaring

Captain Mainwaring — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:16:05 +0000

Here we go again. How Sloooowwww can you go? This reminds me of Clarkson’s ridiculous crawl from London to Edinburgh and back in an A8 TDI. No argument that the Jaguar and its engine are both wonderful, but the real-world economy potential of this combination is more like 7.5L/100km (38mpg), driving at normal speeds. This is still remarkable for something so luxurious, so why promote such pointless achievements?

By: Gift-Ed

Gift-Ed — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:59:32 +0000

8.2 0-100 isn’t super fast, but that is outstanding fuel economy. Better than the Lexus overly complicated hybrid.

By: Dlr1

Dlr1 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:39:26 +0000

And best of all not only is this Jaguar frugal but you don’t even have to run it on fossil fuels:

According to the Ananova website:

**Inventor turns dead cats into diesel

A German inventor says he’s found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats.

Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers.

They are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter.

He said the resulting “high quality bio-diesel” costs just 15 pence per litre.

Koch said the cadaver of a fully grown cat can produce 2.5 litres of fuel – meaning around 20 cats are needed for a full tank.

He said: “I tank my car with my own diesel mixture and have driven it for 105,000 miles without any problems.”

Annelise Krauss of the Dresden Animal Protection Association blasted Koch’s new diesel though, saying: “This is as bad as experimenting on animals.”**

imagine that, a jaguar with real cat power.

By: Chucky

Chucky — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:53:39 +0000

I think this must have been achieved by doing mostly highway driving. Still an impressive result though. The Audi A8 3.0TDI should not be that far off the mark either.

By: Ford GT40

Ford GT40 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:53:26 +0000

I’m very impressed with Jag, this kind of sticks the finger up Toyleta’s Golf Cart tired old technology, a large car returning excellent fuel cosumption figures and looks a million dollars to..

I would love if this engine was included in a Falcon also. Kick hybrids to the Kerb..

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:45:45 +0000

In the Falcon and definitely in the Territory. In fact, it should have been introduced into the Territory line up at least 12 months ago.

By: JML

JML — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:39:29 +0000

Would like to see this engine in the Falcon.

By: Crouchy

Crouchy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:08:30 +0000

what do these cost???

By: Marketmaker

Marketmaker — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:39:29 +0000

Just goes to support the poitnby another poster here (Realcars?) that diesels are by no means at the end of their development cycle.

Also that high efficiency does not necessarily mean weird dorky slow vehicles.