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In the coast to coast journey the car maintained an average speed of 85km/h.
Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
16 Nov 2011
2 min read

The 2.2-litre turbo-diesel sedan was driven the 4615km from New York to Los Angeles - the equivalent of travelling from London to the Sahara - taking in 11 states, three time zones and eight days.

The British team only stopped to fill up the car four times. Jaguar, which now claims the car as the company's most fuel efficient ever, says the test was "a graphic demonstration of the strength, engineering integrity and efficiency of the car".

Paul Alcock, XF Project Manager, Jaguar Cars - who was in a following vehicle for the trip - says the project was designed primarily to test the potential economy of the XF 2.2.

"The incredible figures achieved by the car were accomplished through making every element of the new XF as efficient as possible - from its aerodynamics to its four-cylinder 2.2-litre diesel engine linked to an eight-speed gearbox," he says.

Driven by independent testers, David and Alexander Madgwick, the XF 2.2 was a stock-standard, UK-registered, right-hand drive vehicle.

In the coast to coast journey the car maintained an average speed of 85km/h and incorporated a range of real-life scenarios - including the busy roads exiting New York and, towards the end of the trip, entering Los Angeles, road works, high winds and a climb to 2240m above sea level.

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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