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The Jaguar C-X17 combines the character and driving experience of a sports car with increased presence, style and flexibility. A five-seater sports crossover concept built on the aluminium-intensive architecture, the C-X17 blends sleek lines, sporting performance and sophistication with enhanced practicality. Having made its debut at Auto Guangzhou 2013, the C-X17 is every inch a Jaguar. The revised C-X17, developed for China, has a luxurious, spacious and innovative cabin featuring bespoke, high-quality, traditionally British-inspired interior finishes and materials. The seats are lightweight units with a sculpted free-standing appearance, visually enhancing the airiness of the cabin. The sense of openness inside the cabin is heightened by the C-X17’s unique panoramic roof, constructed from a series of sculpted vanes running from front to rear, closely arranged in parallel and integrated into the header and cant rails. They are contoured on the lower side to generate extra headroom, and shaped to create a ring of space that enables a whole-roof view of the sky above, giving the occupants a sense of openness. The topside of the vanes follows the smooth profile of the glass roof, maintaining the sleek exterior lines of the C-X17. Interior finish The C-X17’s interior door finish is a waxed Clay Walnut wood veneer. For the interior metal finishes, ruthenium is used instead of bright work, creating a darker, more tonal effect that suits the subtle, premium feel of the cabin, and the top surface panels of the interactive surface console are laser-etched with a brogue-inspired pattern. Unique features The C-X17 has an interactive surface console that runs the length of the car’s centre tunnel. Made up of a series of interconnecting touch screens encased in transparent acrylic glass, it connects those in the rear cabin with the driver and front seat passengers via a secure in-car Wi-Fi network. It allows the vehicle occupants to upload pictures, video and sound files from their mobile devices and share them with fellow passengers, as well as on social media channels. It features rear exit detection, which uses sensors to warn exiting passengers of quickly-approaching hazards, such as cyclists and mopeds. The instrument panel has a twin-dial configurable TFT console with provision for a head up display – a system which projects vital information onto the windscreen for the driver to process quickly, akin to the systems used in modern fighter aircraft. The profile The C-X17’s low profile and large wheels give it a powerful, planted stance. The long bonnet’s twin ‘power bulges’ and prominent grille impart a muscular look. The headlamps hint at the C-X17’s sedan siblings while the grille is inspired by the XJ, resulting in a distinctive family look that is reassuringly familiar yet uniquely appealing. The C-X17’s twin ‘heartlines’ are clearly visible when viewed in profile. The accentuated length of the windows adds to the vehicle’s overall sense of sleekness. The rear of the vehicle has a distinctive touch of sports car about it, with the haunch, taillights and detailing all bringing to mind the Jaguar F-Type. The roofline swoops quickly rearwards, culminating in a distinctive cantilevered spoiler over a steeply raked rear window that clearly enhances the crossover’s sporting, ‘fast-even-at-standstill’ appearance. The first Jaguar to be delivered from the new architecture will be a new mid-size (C/D) segment premium sedan, which will be rolled-out globally from 2015. VITAL STATISTICS Ground clearance 213 mm Height 1649 mm Width 1959 mm Length 4718 mm Wheelbase 2905 mm Wheel size 23 inches

Anyone tried this yet ?

SUMMARY OF 2013 2013 has been a great year - the lads have achieved so much. We started the year with 5 lads and ending the year with 29. 11 more Rookies joining us in January. We competed in over 45 races - sometimes 3 per week. We raced in the Inter Services Karting Championships - coming 2nd & 3rd once. We raced in 3 x 24hr races - Daytona 24hr, Le Mans 2hr and British 24hr. We raced against some of the country’s top drivers & beat Team McLaren. We set up Team KartForce Scotland and Team KartForce North. 7 lads passed their ARDS Tests & progressing to racing cars. We designed the most advanced set of hand controls for race cars. We set up Team Kilo Foxtrot to compete in team endurance car races. Thank you for your support - you helped make all this happen. PLANS FOR 2014 2014 is going to be a fantastic year! New Patrons to be announced shortly – some very big names! Mercedes in association with City West Commercials agreed to donate a van - full news to come shortly. All KartForce teams will race against each other for the first time Fri 24th Jan - 40 injured troops. These are some of the races we'll be competing in.... ▪ European Prokart Endurance Championship ▪ Elite Karting League ▪ Inter Services Karting Championships ▪ Isle of Man 24hr, Le Mans 24hr & British 24hr We'd like to enter the 24hrs of America and Majorca 12hr race. We’re looking at breaking and setting some new 24hr world records. ▪ Team - Furthest driven with hand controls ▪ Solo – Furthest driven with hand controls ▪ Team – Furthest driven ▪ Solo – Furthest driven ▪ Team – Further driven with 1 hand (triple amputees) ▪ Solo – Further driven with 1 hand (triple amputee) ▪ Most 24hr karting world record set at one time We’ll be finishing off tests on our new hand controls for race cars – the most advanced hand controls in existence. And we’ll be developing the hand controls to suit other race cars so our lads can race what they want. Team Kilo Foxtrot will be competing in team endurance races in the Jaguar XJ-S that won the 2012 Nurburgring 24hr. We hope you'll continue to support us - let's get more lads racing! "THERE ARE NO PASSENGERS IN KARTFORCE"

Maihem-Media.com and Motorhead magazine have collaborated on a nine minute short film called Car Maniacs: Life With Le Mans. It is basically an ubber awesome documentary that skips over the long Q&A, and just goes straight to the witty one-liners, HD resolution, and full-on action sequences featuring three vintage Le Mans race cars ravaging tarmac at full throttle. There are really only three things you need to know about this short video; the Jaguar XJ220C, Porsche 962C, and Mazda 767B. If you aren't familiar with these models, they are three Le Mans thoroughbreds that have been out of the circuit for the past 20 years or so, yet you'd never know by their ripping exhaust sound and blurred HD video images. To give you a quick introduction to these cars before we get to the video, the 1993 Jaguar XJ220C was known in certain circles as a failed supercar. This was not because of its lack of performance, but rather its minimal popularity with buyers due to its lack of a V12 engine. However, knowing what we know today, its twin-turbo V6 was brilliant at minimizing weight, which was furthered by a lightweight body fabricated from carbon composite panels. The 1991 Porsche 962C was a replacement for the old 956, and ended up dominating the 24 Hours of Le Mans for an entire decade. Considering the primary purpose of these 629 horsepower mid-engine marvels was to race, its engines were built with the lifespan of only 26 hours. That would give mechanics and the driver about two hours of testing, and then the final 24 hours was saved up for the actual race. With Jaguar and Porsche on the VIP list of this film, a Mazda may seem a little out of place. However, the 1989 Mazda 767B was a Le Mans force to reckon with, having finished seventh overall in the 1989 race. The 767B was an experiment of sorts for the Mazda race division, featuring a unique 4-rotor Wankel engine that was capable of 629 horsepower, and had a war cry (engine sound) like non other. This is the part where you turn up your resolution, snap on a pair of headphones, and dim the lights just a bit, as you are about to bear witness to three of the greatest wonders in the automotive world.

Hi Pip....and welcome to the club ! I have trawled eBay and cannot find any with indicators at present. However, I have attached a link which is worth checking on a daily basis to see if there are any new listings http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.Xjaguar+x-type+door+mirror&_nkw=jaguar+x-type+door+mirror&_sacat=0&_from=R40 Regards Trevor

Looks great !!! Love the wood trim

CRUSHED: The car looks to have been wrecked by a collapsing garage What a terrible thing to happen to a beautiful classic car. Reader Arnie Web from Felbridge was en route to the Wiremill pub in Newchapel when he saw a collapsed garage, with the boot of an unfortunate car sticking out. On closer inspection, he recognised it as a classic British sports car, the Jaguar E-Type. He told the Courier & Observer: “I’m more of a Ferrari man myself but it’s a beautiful car. If that happened to my vehicle I would be almost suicidal.” By East Grinstead Courier and Observer | Posted: December 31, 2013

LUXURY Car of the Year 2013 is the Jaguar XJ while the Performance Sportscar of the Year is the Jaguar F-TYPE. It's with good reason. There was still little to prepare us for the arrival of the current generation XJ. This is as bold as Jaguar has been in 40 years and with those looks comes all-aluminium construction, a collection of world-beating engines and a beautifully judged interior. It's been a model that has put Jaguar back amongst the luxury car elite and it's now been improved with lower emissions, more equipment and a supercharged V6 petrol powertrain as an alternative to the 3.0-litre diesel unit that almost all buyers choose. Like it has for some time, the XJ uses all-aluminium construction which sees it tip the scales substantially lighter than steel rivals. This leads to major advantages in the performance, handling and efficiency departments where an important part of the luxury car battle is fought. The engines are borrowed from the XF, so we know that they're largely outstanding. The diesel will inevitably be popular and it's a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 that yields 271bhp, with a massive 600Nm of torque thanks to its variable geometry turbos. Petrol-wise, there's now a choice between a freshly developed 340PS supercharged 3.0-litre V6 or a supercharged 510PS 5.0-litre V8. The sinewy lines of the XJ only serve to emphasise its sporting intent. The front end borrows heavily from the XF, the sharply contoured bonnet and the wire mesh grille that juts forward from the plain of the headlights giving it real presence. The car is available in standard or long wheelbase forms with the longer car gaining 125mm and somehow managing to look even sleeker in profile. Meanwhile, the F-TYPE is not only a sportscar – it's a Jaguar sportscar: the difference is important. Don't expect a racetrack refugee – but don't expect a luxury GT either, the kind of car sporting fans of the brand have had to be satisfied with for decades. Think instead of what an Austin Healey or a Triumph TR6 might be like re-interpreted for the modern era, a roadster designed very much for the road. A machine you can't help but want to drive. And drive hard. Even in the entry-level 340PS V6 model thanks to 450NM of torque, sixty from rest is just 5.1s away en route to 161mph. The roof, as you've probably gathered from the clean, compact shape, is a multi-layered fabric affair with a thick Thinsulate lining.

IT’S the noise that hits you first. For a hybrid supercar running in pure electric mode the C-X75 makes a meaty growl. In a world of silent EVs, the Jaguar is purposefully noisy – humming, breathing even, with a bassy beat as it ‘ticks over’. engineers made the roof vibrate to create the artificial sound, amplifying a Tron style soundtrack through the car’s speakers. The soundtrack is matched to throttle position, increasing in tone and intensity as you accelerate. In electric mode the car produces 400bhp – and on the JLR test track, with a Williams test driver behind the wheel, it’s impressively rapid. The artificial sound adds to the drama and it pulls strongly, corners flatly and generates intense grip. Back in the pits, we swap cars. This time Mike Cross – Jaguar’s chief test driver – is behind the wheel. Cross is the man tasked with making Jags feel like Jags. He’s what Walter Rohrl is to Porsche, to the Big Cat. He takes me for a full-blooded high-speed lap of the circuit, even power sliding around a closed roundabout. JLR has a four-lane high-speed bowl at Gaydon and, as Cross buries the throttle on the slip road, the air is sucked from my lungs. The sound and feel is much like a highly tuned superbike – think Suzuki Hayabusa on acid. With a rev limiter at 10,500rpm the tiny 1.6-litre engine screams towards the higher reaches of its song with ferocious intensity, pinning you into the bucket seats. On the straight we climb through the seven- speed paddle box and I watch the needle rise – 156mph, 174mph, 187mph and yet still it climbs. As Cross clicks into seventh, I can see the end of the straight but we’re still accelerating. The C-X75 eventually tops out at 198mph, or so I thought. I later learn that the prototype has a standard Jaguar digital speedo incapable of clicking over 200mph – the real top speed was 205mph. I only notice how fast we’re going when Cross stamps on the brakes. We’re slowing for a good few seconds but I look across to see we’re still travelling at 110mph – and about to turn a corner. My time behind the wheel is a nervous experience. On my first lap the savage gear changes and drama of the whole event wash over me. I know this is a special moment but I find it hard to let it sink in. Then Cross shouts at me: ‘You need to really push it, power it right up the rev range.’ So I do just that. On the same straight we’d just topped 200mph, I let rip. In third, fourth and fifth I quickly crash into the red line. The acceleration is immense; it’s like nothing I’ve experienced before on four wheels – this Jaguar is superbike fast. I hit 187mph before chickening out and plunging the long travel brake pedal into the floor. My time in this special Jaguar is short but it’s long enough to leave a memory that will remain imprinted on my mind for a lifetime. By James Baggott • December 25, 2013

possibly then the throttle housing is suffering from a build up of carbon. The Terraclean treatment I believe may not have covered that part of the intake system. If that is the case it is not too difficult to remove the throttle housing and clean it with Carb Cleaner.

Happy New Year to you all !!! My resolution this year is to get round to finishing all the jobs on my cars that I have ignored for the last year :(

Hi Lee...and welcome to the club! As Peter has suggested...look at the tyres. Its very common nowadays for tyres to delaminate causing a slight bulge where the air escapes into the delaminated layers. Easy diagnosis....jack the car up on each corner and spin the wheel to look for any deviation from a round profile e.g. lumps, odd shape, etc Regards Trevor

Could you swap one of the rear switches to the other side to see whether it illuminates...if not then the fault must be with the wiring Regards Trevor

Do any warning lamps come on during this time?

Have any other members experienced this before ???

Hi Seb There are seperate ABS harnesses for sale on Ebay for either left or right hand side. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ABS-HARNESS-LEAD-LEFT-REAR-LINK-WHEEL-SPEED-SENSOR-Jaguar-S-Type-2002-2004-/271257678225?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Car+Make%3AJaguar%7CModel%3AS-Type&hash=item3f2837b191 Trevor

did the illumination suddenly decrease over time or was it instant?

Hi Simon, The inlet gaskets are made of rubber in which case it would be okay to reuse if they are not damaged. As Peter mentioned earlier there are You Tube videos worth watching to assess whether you feel confident to tackle the job. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVR1Or8xZQE Regards Trevor

Do the switches function okay? If so, then I would imagine it could be faulty bulbs causing lack of illumination. Sometimes the wiring breaks on the doors where they fracture by opening and closing constantly.

It could be rear wheel bearing(s) if the noise is constant...a front bearing if the noise generally disappears when cornering. Worth looking at door and window rubbers to see if they are letting air through them....maybe use a hosepipe to spray water at the doors and windows and see if any water enters...then this maybe also where the air is entering?

HI Martin....and welcome to the forums! We've had a few members saying about the ride quality of the XF...general opinion is the tyre sizes as in low profile that ruins the ride quality but improves the handling though. Look forward to reading your posts on the forum Regards Trevor

Hi Daz...and welcome to the club! There is an insurance group on this club website that does discounted premiums for club members...maybe worth giving them a call. As for the headlining, I wonder if any other members have experienced this and can offer a solution? Good to have you onboard and look forward to reading your posts Regards Trevor

Hi Seb....and welcome to the club! Welcome also to the wonderful world of Jaguars I must say your Jag is looking rather festive :) Look forward to reading your posts on here...maybe when you're sober though! Regards Trevor

Its probably worth checking the brake pedal switch as you say...they can be problematic on other makes which then affect the cruise control

Jaguar Ian Callum, shown here far removed from Scotland or Los Angeles. Ian Callum never grew up a rich boy, but his friends did. His father worked as a lawyer in Dumfries, a market town of 43,000 in the lower corner of Scotland, where the Solway Firth narrows to a point. When you travel, Callum reminisced, you forget how beautiful it is. Vauxhalls and Fords defined Callum's life; his father was "too nice," he said, to be wealthy. But when his clients came to visit, they would darken the driveway with Jaguar Mark IIs. One friend had a Ferrari Dino. Another had an Aston Martin DBS. The exotic car around town, the home team the Doonhamers rooted for, was the Jaguar. Callum has a Mark II Jaguar today, though he's planning to 'trick it up a bit' (What does a car designer drive? A 1932 Ford, a 1993 Mini Cooper, a 1956 Chevrolet 210 on 20-inch wheels and a veritable Summit Racing catalog buried underhood.) Incidentally, for someone who once pressed his nose up against the only Jaguar-Vauxhall garage in town, the Mk II is his first Jaguar. And the F-Type, whose striking coupe guise was unveilled at the Los Angeles Auto Show recently, is his latest. For the F-Type, Callum assembled a team that included. Unlike Jaguars past, the F-Type was conceived as convertible first -- but there was always a plan for a coupe. Callum has always been smitten by coupes. It's much harder to design a convertible than a coupe, even though his team -- and remember, anyone at Jaguar is a team player by default -- relished the challenge. With a convertible, it's very easy to make it look quite ordinary, he explained; you get a good convertible, and the coupe falls perfectly into place. It's never the other way around. "The one frustration was that the F-Type's taken too long. I wish we'd got to do it sooner. It's as significant for Jaguar as the E-Type was in the '60s." It would have been more difficult under Ford, but not impossible, he noted. Fortunately, Callum found a visionary in Ratan Tata. After purchasing Jaguar in 2008, Tata asked bluntly: "You're a sports car company. Where's the sports car?" "Well," Callum confessed, "I've been trying!" And yes, he informed, in full view of his PR handlers and product managers -- there will be an F-Type RS. 550 supercharged, screaming horsepower on the R, it seems, just isn't enough grace, space, and pace for some. The mind reels at such violence yet untapped. Jaguar A sketch from Jaguar's design team shows an even sleeker roofline, rendered null by the intricacies of production. Jaguar designers hold to themselves the unenviable burden of history. How can contemporary designs secure their legacy in the shadow of Malcolm Sayer and Sir William Lyons? "You're the second person to ask that! I'm 60 next year. That's a scary thought." Callum paused. "I don't think about it," he said, simply. "I feel an obligation toward it, towards making it work." A celebrity in the business? Perish the thought. "I've got a good PR team," Callum noted. "But a lot of it comes from being in a company as high-profile as Jaguar." Callum has been at Jaguar 15 years -- last September was his anniversary. But when he started at the company he most admired he had intended on staying for just 10 years. "Don't tell my boss," he smiled. "In my own mind, my plan was 10 years I would do the job. Ten years wasn't enough. Now, I'm just kicking into something bigger than me." He's got so much more to do, to create: a boat, perhaps, as a tribute to the Jaguar D-Type; a handbag and a few watches for the Sunday Times. The Sportbrake -- "one of the most handsome cars we make," and if only they could bring it to the States, he lamented. (Enthusiasts will be glad to know that Callum has a not-entirely-unusual fondness for shooting brakes, a love best embodied by the Lynx Eventer.) There's so much design in the world, and not enough at just one car company. Another pause, this one more thoughtful. "Jaguar, specifically, was always my first love in the car business, "he said. "And I would like to leave the business in a good state." We'd argue that goal has already been accomplished. By: Blake Z. Rong on 12/23/2013