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The 2.2-litre diesel engine has 140kW/450Nm and Jaguar claims 5.4 litres/100km.
Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
31 Mar 2011
2 min read

BORROWING from your neighbours is keeping Jaguar in good stead as it this week announced it was lifting one of Land Rover's engines for its new sedan. The Land Rover 2.2-litre turbo-diesel, seen in Australia in the new Freelander, will become the fifth engine option for the XF range.

More importantly, it is seen as being the primary engine for the rumoured XS sedan that appears in 2013 as the delayed replacement for the X-Type.

Announced this week in the UK but not for sale there until later this year - and yet to be confirmed for Australia - is the heavily revised four cylinder diesel.

Unlike the Freelander, Jaguar places the engine in the north-south position to drive the XF's rear wheels through ZF's new eight-speed automatic that includes an advanced stop-start system. The engine has 140kW/450Nm and Jaguar claims 5.4 litres/100km and 149 grams/km of CO2.

Aside from the inclusion of the small-bore oiler, the XF will also get a new face - with more resemblance to the XK range - and tail in its updated specification across all models. Further details of the engine and the new-look XF will be announced at its debut at the New York motor show next month.

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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