Sexy Jaguar Estates Are A Thing Of The Past Because No One Wants To Buy Them
It’s science fact that wagons are sexier and cooler than their saloon counterparts, so naturally when Jaguar revealed the XE and more recently the new XF, the estate-ified renders came flooding in. The one above of Jaguar’s 5-series rival envisioned as an XF-RS Sportbrake by Xtomi Design particularly caught our attention, but sadly, it’s looking highly unlikely something like this will ever become a reality.
Automotive News quotes Jaguar design boss Ian Callum as saying “The [estate] market is massively shrinking. I’m very sad about it but it’s a very difficult market to justify.” Callum also mentioned that although Germany has the world’s largest estate market, it’s of little help to Jaguar as “what do Germans buy? They buy German cars.”
The kind of car that is popular in Europe and indeed worldwide is the SUV, which is why the British company created the F-Pace. In fact, Jaguar and Callum confidently told us at the car’s international launch recently that it’ll become the brand’s best-selling model. It’s not as cool as a wagon, but it’s a rather good car.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Good. They’re ugly anyway.
Well here in the Netherlands we sell more wagons then sedans even hatchbacks are more likely to sell, when it comes to sedans only a small amount of people buy them
if nobody wants them, i’ll take them. i’m a team player like that
I’m surprised by this I see a lot of XF Sportbacks