The late estate

摘要

By all reason, this car should not exist. The idea that Jaguar, a proud petrol-driven premium brand, would ever construct a front-wheel drive, diesel-powered estate would, until very recently, have been considered laughable. How things change. The diesel market continues to go from strength to strength, while estates or tourers or whatever tag one wishes to bestow on them, take an 18% slice of the CD premium market segment. In true Germanic fashion, the engineers from Inglostadt, Munich, and Stuttgart put diesel engines and estate bodies together a long time ago, and so in today's sector Audi holds 35% of the premium estate market, BMW takes 26%, while Mercedes pitches in with 15%. Even the Swedes - that is Volvo, not Saab - are in a strong position, covering just over one-fifth of this market.