Jaguar releases its new muscle car: Jaguar XKR-S Version – 2012 – Part 5

Switching seats with Cunningham and taking a turn in the Porsche, I was unsurprised to find that it was much more involved than the Jaguar. When the turns got twisty and the speedo began to climb, I found the 911’s steering to be much more direct, the suspension much more communicative, and the throttle and PDK gearbox to be darn near telepathic. On a dry day, the XKR-S would definitely have a hard time keeping up with the 911 S on those twisty roads, for sure. That said, most cars short of a Nissan GT-R would lose a handling contest to the 911, so the fact that the Jaguar XKR-S (a car that I just finished comparing with a Mustang) can be mentioned with a straight face is telling.

Although the new system in the XKR-S is one of kind and gives the highest quality of sound, and is seamlessly compatible to iOS devices but the dashboard has started to show the weathering of an old-age design. The dashboard has not changed in over a 6-year period to date and though the gadgetry inside is not very old, the outlook is. The touch-screen has an interface that gives the look of Borland C GUI.

Visually, there’s not really much wrong with the Jaguar infotainment interface: it’s brightly colored with high contrast, features large virtual buttons that are easy to hit, and is more or less consistent in its placement of elements. However, the whole thing falls apart when you begin to navigate through its menus. For starters, the whole system is based around a hub “Home” screen, which is a bad idea in a car. Because the system lacks physical buttons that take you directly to an area of the interface (climate, audio, or navigation, for example) you have to backtrack to this hub screen and back out to the area of control you seek. So if you’re on the map screen and want to change audio sources, you have to first go Home then back out to Audio before you can make that change.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Mar 29 2012. Filed under Automobiles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.