Comments on: 2008 Jaguar XF video review

By: amir

amir — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:27:36 +0000

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By: Millatime

Millatime — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:48:06 +0000

Karl, of course we want to be informed what the cars about, what she’ll do and how she does it…

But by no means does it end there. As an audience we also want to be involved with the car, with your interaction, we want to feel it, hear it, see it, we want to be there, to be drawn into the car, to be exhilarated by it’s performance…

You can be a dry motoring journo in print, but in front of the camera you must also – if you want to do it well – entertain and involve us.

Anyway, the best in the business are on tonight (Monday) at 7:30, and my God they’re entertaining (secret of their success?), and informative!

If you don’t agree that’s OK, I still think you’re a brilliant director!

Cheers!

By: Karl Peskett

Karl Peskett — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:53:58 +0000

Millatime, I’m a motoring journo, first and foremost, so if it’s entertainment you’re after, look elsewhere.

However, if you’re in need of a serious critique, then you’ve come to the right spot. Thanks for your honest, forthright opinion.

Cheers!

By: Millatime

Millatime — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:57:52 +0000

Great car, but sorry Karl, you don’t have the on screen presence, charisma, personality, humour or even voice for video.

I know everyones a critic, but on the entertainment meter that review barely manages a score.

On a positive I think your expertise is on the other side of the camera, great direction!

Cheers!

By: Dave Green

Dave Green — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:41:33 +0000

Not the headlights but that front grill spoils the car for me, not enough to put me off buying one though, the trade in price I`ve been offered for my 14k mile S type did that !

By: GooSE

GooSE — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:43:52 +0000

top shelf review mate. If i had the money for it thatd be the car i would buy right now.
lol anti-spam was 300kw, when are u gonna be testing that monster?!!

By: G

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:25:27 +0000

Too bad the front lights make it look fugly. The back is very Aston Martin-esque. What was with the Judge Dredd song at the end

By: Richo

Richo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:11:09 +0000

yeah it was a good review mate, but i think you need to try and forge your own personality in the review. You seemed to be trying waaaaay to hard to be top gear. Your not. Your car advice.

By: azza21

azza21 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:45:21 +0000

really good video review! I know its alot of work, but more of these please!

By: pious

pious — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:05:43 +0000

I think a lot more appeal to the xf than to the s type, with a younger and far wider demographic with more ability to fund these (maybe s type bought by 60 plus, xf more by 40 plus). It is a completely new style of car, not just a new model of existing, like the benz and the BMW (which were probably less attractive than their predecessors). I wouldnt have bought an s type at all (save maybe an R, if it was cheap enough). And Tom, yeah I would have loved the SV8 except another $40K on the V8, with a significantly harder ride (getting soft in my old age). For another $15K (in the US the difference is around $8K), I’d grab the SV8, but $40K is a lot of dough, esp when you cant really tell the difference from the outside between the $125K on road 6 cyl, the $145K on road V8, and the $185K on road SV8, and on the road the main difference is better cornering (hence the harder ride), and getting to 100kph 1 second faster than the V8 (well, that is what I keep telling myself…)