Detroit News' Neil Winton Says New Jaguar a "Disappointment"
Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on November 21, 2007
The C-XF was not to be.
By Gunnar Heinrich
I called it. And he said it.
"I'm not sure if raising buyers' hopes to fever-pitch with a concept car like the C-XF, then deflating them with the real thing, is the best way to sell new cars," wrote the Detroit News' Neil Winton. "What is undoubtedly a terrific replacement for the slow selling and dated looking S Type, will start its life in this potential buyer's eyes as a disappointment, when the C-XF might have persuaded me to buy a Jaguar for the first time."
Mr. Winton points to the fact that Jaguar had already finalized the design for the production XF by the time the world first laid on the much sleeker C-XF. Hence his argument that Jaguar Cars, LTD knowingly misled us.
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