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Jaguar Raises Standard for Luxury Cars With Update of Flagship Sedan

IRVINE, Calif. April 4, 2007 – Renowned for its lavish interior and signature styling, the company’s flagship sedan, the Jaguar XJ, gets an even more confident look for the 2008 model year with visual changes, technological advances such as HD Radio technology, and additional features across the range.
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The Swiss Porsche tuner Rinspeed transforms the Porsche Cayman also optically in an more bitingly reptile. The effect-orange color paint exclusively mixed by the German paint manufacturer Lesonal lets the ducked reptile appear to be even more aggressive and dynamic.

The already outstanding road performance is joined by a sophisticated aerodynamic package which doesn’t leave any wish unfulfilled. Rinspeed has modified the Cayman characteristics with a low front skirt which takes design clues from the Indy look which was introduces for the 997 model series.
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The RX has always been a stylish, luxuriously appointed, and smooth-riding SUV. Its not exciting by enthusiast standards, but its popular with the marques buyers. Since its introduction in 1998, the RX has been Lexuss bestselling vehicle, with 108,348 of these SUVs finding buyers in 2006.
And whats most interesting is that almost a quarter of those were the RX400h hybrid version.
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There are more and more sport utility vehicles on market. Why? It’s simply because we keep buying them. Obviously, more there are, more the competition is ferocious. And even SUVs can’t avoid the horsepower wars.
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With the disappearance of the Q45, the M became the Japanese luxury brand’s flagship. In any other manufacturer’s line-up, killing off the top-seeded car would have been suicide. The Q never caught on like the Lexus LS even though they appeared on the market at about the same time.
As competition got fiercer, the Q lost all semblance as a competitor not because of a lack of competence or content but mostly because of serious absence from the buying public.
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