Jaguar XK8 Review

>> Thursday, December 25, 2008

10.jpgLet's get this out of the way: the Jaguar XK8 is a grill-challenged automobile.  It's as if Ford sent all their leftover Taurus grills to the UK and then leaned on Jaguar engineers to find them a home.  Or maybe the XK8's grill was intended as a comeuppance; a punishment to the brand's designers for daring to create a "new" car that borrows so heavily from their up-market British cousin's two-door. Or maybe the wide mouth bass grill is all about brand differentiation; a stylistic non-flourish designed to ensure that no potential buyer confuses the Jaguar XK8 and the Aston Martin DB9.  Now if someone had grafted the front end of a BMW 650i to the XK, we might have had something…


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