Monday, August 20, 2012

How Jaguar Fast-Tracked AWD for Its Cars—And Why It Can’t Do More

Only Jaguar XFs and XJs with a new supercharged six will be offered with all-wheel drive, and only starting in February—months after the rear-drive versions go on sale. We've learned that it's nigh-on impossible to equip the turbo-four and V-8 Jags with all-wheel drive. Join us for an excursion behind the normally closed—and dead-bolted, CCTV-supervised, security-patrolled—doors of an automaker, and we'll tell you how the all-wheel-drive XF and XJ came to be, and why their differently engined brethren are stuck with just two driven wheels.

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from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com




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