Offering physical controls for simple, common tasks like cycling through radio stations or activating the heated/ventilated seats would go a long way to improving our perception of JLR's tech setup.
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The lack of haptic feedback, particularly on the lower display, is frustrating too, as the slow response time makes it hard to recognize when the software has accepted an input. Our tester adds an additional display below that touchscreen for the climate controls, as well as a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster.Īs in other JLR products, like the Range Rover Evoque, the displays offer attractive graphics and a futuristic aesthetic, but the underlying software is slower to respond and more convoluted to use than we'd like. The XE relies on the same tech suite in other modern Jaguar Land Rover products, with a standard 10.0-inch touchscreen on the center console.
There's a real sense of occasion when walking up to the XE, but it fades once you slide behind the wheel and assess your surroundings. This isn't a huge departure from last year's car, although at least that XE had a neat dial shifter that rose out of the dash on startup – the facelift added a more conventional, and less interesting, gear lever. Even the shapes of things like the center stack and vents are unexciting. There's no excitement or drama, let alone an eye-catching element or splash of color – you get black leather on the dash, some contrast stitching, and a small bit of wood or, in our case carbon-fiber trim. The styling here is clean and the materials premium, but the dash is a morass of boring, black leather and plastic and the only way to brighten up the cabin is via the seat upholstery and matching door panels. That impactful design doesn't extend to the cabin, though, which is merely average. Optioned as ours is, with the R-Dynamic's body kit, Caldera Red paint, blacked-out styling elements, and 20-inch wheels (the XE's most attractive option), this sedan is striking. The revised XE's clean, muscular sheet metal, slim headlights and taillights, and perfect rear-drive proportions are textbook Jaguar styling elements. Jaguar knows exactly what it's doing when styling small sedans.
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