Jaguar releases its new muscle car: Jaguar XKR-S Version – 2012 – Part 6

The lack of physical shortcuts to each menus area is just part of the problem. Jaguar seems to place other odd functions within the touch-screen interface where honest-to-goodness physical buttons would be better. For example, the seat and steering-wheel heater controls are located on the home screen; a pair of knobs on the center console and a small button on the back of the steering wheel would be much more ergonomic.

This organization issue is compounded by the fact that Jaguar’s interface isn’t the most responsive and features slow, unskippable transition animations between each menu screen. You could easily do a 0-60 run in the time it takes to handle the navigation to audio transition I mentioned above, and I’m sure that you’d be done with a quarter-mile by the time you’re done adjusting the EQ.

However, the Jaguar’s cabin tech situation isn’t all doom and gloom. The 525-watt Bowers & Wilkins audio system is simply sublime, its Kevlar-coned speakers working in perfect harmony with the Jag’s coffin-quiet cabin to create fantastically balanced sound, reproducing the subtle piano and slightly off-key vocals of Esperanza Spalding’s “Fall In” with remarkable delicacy. This system was also interesting in that it was nearly impossible to get out of sorts. I was able to crank the bass all of the way up to emphasis the low-end kick of the Roots’ “How I Got Over” without any noticeable rattle and reasonably low levels of audible distortion even at high volumes.

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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.