So I was coming back from the beach yesterday with 3 of my friends in the car. I was approaching a light and I notice a jaguar in the lane on the side of me. I'm not to familiar with jag's and didnt know the specs on this one, but I remember looking at the brake calipers and noticing they were aftermarket.. I was joking around with my friend in the passenger seat and when I looked back up the light was green.. I look over and the jag is just waiting for me.. He goes I mash it immediately after and he pulled a 1-2 cars by the time I got to third. Still not sure of the model but it said 4.2 in the back of it ... He was alone in his car I had 3 ppl but I doubt it would've made a difference. 04 6MT Aspec - stock

Appears to be the XF which comes standard with 300hp or SC'ed with 420.

Not sure what it was... but it was no joke! I had no idea until he was infront of me and I saw the 4.2 badge..

4.2l v8.
Not sure why you even tried - especially with base TL and 3 passengers

hm.. I think in my post I said that im not to familiar with Jaguar model's and that I didnt know it was a 4.2 until I was behind him .. And with 3 passengers egging you on its tough to not give it a try. You only race cars that you know for sure youll pull? Whats the fun of that?

With the jags a few models share the 4.2L. The S-Type, XJ, XK and now XF. Nice run. If you punched it at the same time it would have been closer especially if you only had yourself in the car to reduce the weight. I know that the XK is a low 14 second car with that engine. The S-Type runs high 14's with that engine.

Yes those jaguars are no joke!

I had an encounter with one of them before..we ran it from a stop and by the time i was at 60 he had a car length on me..

nice try tho!

Was it something like this:
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...take_road_test

Seems like it was just the 4.2L V8 NA with 300hp. They are about as fast as a 2g TL-S/3g TL AT. I think you lost because your car was carrying an extra 300-400lb and he gunned it before you did. If it were the supercharged XF, it would have demolished you since that car can do 13.5@107mph (even faster than 335i).

Are you serious? An extra 400-500 lbs in your car will cost you an easy 5-6/10ths in the quarter. If he had only 1-2 cars on you at 60, then if you were alone and he hadn't gotten the jump then you would have easily won.

He would of still lost no matter what..V8's got plenty of torque..

I think hes talking about this one..
http://www.caranddriver.com/buying_g...tab-specs.html

I think the Jag weighs about 4200 lbs. The Jag > TL + 3 passengers. So, considering the extra weight and 1-2 car length lead after only 2nd gear, the Jag is packing serious torque. The base TL had no chance. Type-S would have been a fair match.

To OP, I did not mean to sound critical. I have seen some unexpected as well and tend to be on the cautious side . Good try nonetheless.

Yah it was all in good fun. Im not sure if either of the vehicles were the one I raced, it looked like an older model .. maybe a 2000 - 2002 somewhere in that generation. I just remember the big brakes and the 4.2l in the back hah

Good death, but none the less I still pick the V8 over the V6 even the hp is only 300. Torque baby, torque!