so do you think Jaguar can actually be as good as a BMW let's find out now so
why are we comparing the two car brands today BMW and Jaguar well because
they're both synonymous with performance and luxury of course BMW naturally is a
little more performance oriented little edgier while Jaguar tends to be a lot
more focused on the luxury side of things now of course they're both trying
to cater to a broader market so of course they're doing things that are
trying to bring people into their marketplace so there's another key
difference to these two brands one of them is Jaguar is owned by Tata Motors
in conjunction and with Land Rover as well and they were sold back in 2008 by
Ford who failed to make a run of it they couldn't manage it properly and so it
wasn't worth the Jaguar falling apart so Ford essentially let it go to town which
is obviously representing this fine British car brand and BMW is essentially
owned by the Dame leur Auto Group and of course that is German no secret there so
today we're talking about the Germans and the British cars and how they are
similar and how they are both opposites in a lot of ways so we're gonna run
through the facets of both car brands in generalities and I'm gonna speak to some
specifics specifically 5-series versus the XF as well the f-type R which
of course I reviewed some time back and I really enjoyed the drive in and I
think that's a spectacularly good car so we're gonna touch on all of that and
we're gonna share with you some of the goods and Bad's of each facet so first
let's talk about the exterior the styling the way it's constructed on both
of these cars why don't we start with BMW BMWs exteriors are full of accents
and hard lines and aggression so BMW is full of carbon fibre vents
accents large wheels and is also very muscular in general and when we talk
about that if you might as well reference the 550 and the m5 BMWs they
really do focus on the muscular looks and they have a lot more focus on vents
sharp body lines they really to make the car look aggressive even
including that big wide-open front spoiler the crappy part of fortune with
the BMWs is that because they've been so successful as a car brand great at
marketing the product and because the product in general is very appealing the
cars have sold in mass abundance and as a result there's a lot of five series
cars on the road and because of that they're becoming a little ho-hum and
there's just too many of them around now that's unfortunate because they are a
great car but they're becoming a little bit too mainstream now let's talk about
the Jaguar specifically how about the f-type R that car reeks in class Jaguars
are just passionate flowing beautiful lines it's just amazing that the look of
the car overall is spectacularly sexy it has those massive rear haunches that
harkens back to the 930 porsche back in the 70s
which really gave it that pop that flare that you couldn't mistake from down the
road it really made it stand out spectacularly nicely it's got the rear
end almost like a Kardashian a little bit exaggerated now as well the rest of
the body lines are a lot more sweeping and swooping there's less hard lines
like you'd find in the BMW where they utilize a lot more chiseled angles the
Jag the f-type bar as well as the other XF cars are a lot more rounded off they
have smoother flowing lines but the XF is an extremely attractive car as is the
f-type R very very attractive cars very upscale the kind of car that you
actually when you're walking away from you have to take that look you want to
take a look back at it a couple of times before you leave the car now let's move
on to the interior of both these cars the BMW on one hand is chock full of
technology I mean we talk about things like gesture control mood lighting a
generally nice quality material finishing unfortunately a poorly placed
iDrive screen and relatively stark interiors particularly when you get the
car outfitted in black interiors looks very stark and of course it's becoming a
little drab in the sense that you know the linear dashboard layouts
some of the technologies frightening things up but they needed to
do that with the mood lighting because things were getting a little bit just to
start now the Jaguar on the other hand the XF is one thing f-type R has a whole
next level finishing feel to it the Jaguars interiors are superior to every
other car it really does feel luxurious but it has a much stealthier interface
in the middle of the dash versus what BMW does on the top planted on the top
of the dashboard the materials are a little bit crisper in the Jag and it
overall has a much more upscale feel generally as you look around it feels
more upscale than a BMW it's more in line with in Aston Martin which is
essentially its bigger brother so a couple things you might consider
downsides in the Jag is that the overall even though it's a high quality interior
finishing it is a little simpler that largely because there's less tech going
on there or appears of less tech it just has a simpler feel overall there's less
gadgets there's less little accents and detail but the parts that are in there
do feel higher quality as well there's another downside with some of the Jags
and I know when the f-type R has a lacking of gauges I know that's an
ownership quibble that a lot of people are complaining about owners that you
don't have a lot of the engine health systems like oil temp performance cars
should come equipped with that and the Jaguar does not come equipped with a lot
of that tech and a lot of the gauges for engine health which is a bit of a
disappointment but that's just the way it is I guess now one thing from the
interior that I noticed is both cars whether you're talking about an XF or
whether you're talking about the f-type R is they're very very quiet in the
cabin very luxurious almost whisper quiet and it does a great job of
absorbing a lot of the road noise and the tyre noise largely because of the
aluminum construction it does a great job of sort of keeping the sounds
reverberating outwards and you don't hear that noise inside the cabin
like you get in a lot of the BMWs and even the M cars in particular get a lot
more noise inside the cabin the other thing I noticed from the inside is you
know from the seat of your pants when you're driving the car you could feel
the weight transfer at times if you're on and off the throttle in the f-type
like I was in a corner you can actually feel the weight transfer in front to
back as you're accelerating decelerating or braking in a corner which sometimes
kind of feels like it's throwing you off some of it is largely because it has a
lot of power and it wants to sort of break loose but there's a weight
transfer going on there
oh the other thing that I had to note of course is based on engine sound in
general everybody knows now no secret BMW is pumping sound engine sound into
the stereo system essentially simulating engine noise now they do actually make
engine noise and you've probably seen videos of mine with the m5 does snap and
crackle a little bit out of the exhaust so it does produce some engine sounds of
its own but the cabin is so insulated and still because it's turbocharged it's
still a little bit light on exhaust noise that's where the Jaguar absolutely
Trump's BMW because turbochargers in the BMWs turbo charges are mounted in the
exhaust that's what gets the wheel spinning and because of that essentially
does its own muffling and so the sound is reduced dramatically off the exhaust
with a turbocharged car the Jags on the other hand are typically supercharged
now whether we're talking about the XF or we're talking about the f-type R
they're supercharged one being a supercharged v6 and the f-type R being a
supercharged v8 of five liter displacement they both make
spectacularly good noises have you heard that f-type R
it's insane that's one of the sexiest sounds anywhere any time of any
manufacturer today it is just the best sounding car now they do other things to
sort of simulate and create those extra snap crackle pops but it's still exhaust
sound nonetheless and the Jaguar does have some of the best sounds in the
business and so then we move on to performance let's talk about that
there's no question the BMW the 550 or the m5 are superior in virtually every
aspect of performance they're faster they're quicker they're even slightly
more agile than the Jaguar they do a better job of performing that's what
they do and that's why ultimately they call it the ultimate driving machine
because that's sort of the thing that they have to live up to the BMW cars are
ridiculously powerful so they focus on that it is the driving experience that
driving dynamics and that's where BMW Trump's
very very quick but again as I mentioned previous with the interior sounds or the
interior of the car with the performance it is so good on paper and it's so fast
but unfortunately as a performance in my mind a lot of people consider exhaust
sounds the overall experience of the car it's lacking in the BMW and again the
Jaguar wins their hands down on the exhaust sounds the Jags aren't as fast
but they sound way better now all the cars whether we talk about the f-type R
jag or the XF or if we talk about the new m5 how about the 550 Beemer as well
they all come with an 8-speed automatic of different varieties but they all come
equipped 8-speed and they're both shiftable so they're both sort of
performance oriented but nonetheless they're a wet torque converter
transmission all of them the days of manual transmissions the days of even
DCT seem to be fading quickly with some of these car brands it's a little bit
disappointing in a lot of ways not as much for the luxury cars but certainly
for an m5 or an f-type R Jaguar you would hope that you can get at least a
dual clutch transmission or a manual gearbox neither of which are available
but here are some numbers for you the jag X F comes with a 380 horsepower
supercharged v6 which produces 0 to 60 times but five seconds quarter-mile 13 3
and it is just a really really quick car that snaps and pops on over run really
beautiful car all the way around the beamers on the other hand whether you're
talking about the m5 are you talking about the 550 zero to 60 times are four
seconds or less very very fast no question about it and you've got either
455 horse or 600 horsepower depending if you picked a 550 or the m5 so there's no
question in my mind BMW totally wins the performance game so
let's summarize all of this at the end of the day if you want the car that has
absolutely drop-dead good looks
amazing snap and overrun exhaust sounds aluminum bodies that reduce sounds
high-quality interior that matches Aston Martin and a general high-quality
upscale feel that makes you want to take that second and third look back when
you're walking away from the car you're gonna pick the Jaguar whether you pick
an x f4 sedan or whether you go with the more sporty f-type R you have a choice
for any day of the week and the Jag is as pretty as an Aston now if you're
looking for more tech chiseled looks performance and you want reliability now
I know sorry guys reliability BMW I know that's a big discussion here but either
way if you want the more reliable car then I would say you go with the BMW and
for me because BMW does all of that stuff very very well for example the
performance so the beamers fast like a Porsche and the reliability not to
mention the network of dealers is a little better supported through BMW
networks versus the Jaguar networks I have to say guys I would likely go with
a BMW for 95% of the models however there's one caveat there's one car
that's the Jaguar f-type R that believe it or not that is the one car I would
probably buy before almost any other BMW yes sorry guys the f-type R when I drove
that thing I was so impressed it has the all-wheel drive now in the newer f-type
ours it has a really smooth shifting tranny at low speeds but it feels very
lightning-fast when you're on the fly the high quality interior the sexy
good looks the amazing sound that really there's nothing like it guys there's
nothing like the f-type R unless you get an Aventador or a Lamborghini guard or
Huracan with an aftermarket open exhaust there's nothing better than the f-type R
exhaust system that nothing out there guys
so honestly at the end of the day I think the f-type R for me wins outside
of that BMW has mine has my dollars for virtually every other car you know if
I'm not looking for that f-type R maybe I don't want something quite that sporty
but maybe I want a sedan or some coupe with back seats then the f-type is not
gonna work for me then I would revert back to the BMWs all day
the m5 is spectacularly fast the m3 is DM fours are amazing as well M twos
honestly newfound love there too so honestly BMW spectacularly good but the
f-type R right here guys it has my heart it is amazing machine so thanks
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