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Jaguar has only released the goods on one of the XE's engines which, by the sounds of it, will be its top-flight offering for the time being. We've tested Jaguar Land Rover's 3.0-liter, supercharged V6 in a number of offerings, driving it in both its 380-hp variant and its 340-pony setup. The XE S will get the latter, and it will be paired up with a new, lighter version of the eight-speed ZF automatic that's so popular in the rest of the JLR fleet. The 340-hp model will be the range-topping entry (at least until Jag decides to shoehorn its blown 5.0-liter V8 under the hood, for the inevitable R and RS variants), and can hit 60 miles per hour in 4.9 seconds before reaching a limited top speed of 155 miles per hour. That sprint to 60 is 0.2 seconds faster than a BMW 335i and it ties the Audi S4. The rest of the engines available on the XE will be part of a new "Ingenium" family, which will be built in the UK using a modular design. Power will be sent to the rear wheels, although Jaguar says the XE's modular architecture is "accepting" of all-wheel-drive systems.
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