I tried a new one recently for a few days, the XF Sportbrake, played with the idea of switching to something else than Volvo for once.
It's a well-made car, no issue. TATA know their business. But that aggressive rear-wheel drive ...
After 25 years of driving about 10 different 4-wheel-drive Volvos, I was startled to drive a car that burns rubber and becomes unruly if you speed it up in a curve and that needs to be steered to drive
a straight line on the Autobahn going a mild 170 km/h. With my Volvos, I can go 225 km/h or more on the Autobahn (when it's empty in the wee-wee hours of the morning, I'm a nocturnal worker) and there is no need to steer, they are "driving on rails". With the Jag, I constantly had the feeling that its butt wanted to be in front of its snout which seems to get lighter with every additional km/h. I'm too old for that.
Leave that to the BMW drivers half my age with ghetto flat black finish.
Don't get me wrong, I like a powerful car (my Volvo V 90 has more than 300 hp, the Jag I tested had less), but I want optimal traction at all times, not rubber being scraped over the asphalt. A car that is confident and strong, not vicious and hyper.
So that was my recent Jag experience which did not turn me into a convert, I guess I'm more lichen-munching stability ...
than tensed-up feline ...