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^Still looks extremely dull

Jaguar please.........no contest.

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Test Data:
XFR B5S

510 PS 530 PS
625 NM 725 NM

Leergewicht (Hersteller) 1891 kg 1720 kg

Beschleunigung
0-40 km/h 1,7 s 1,6 s
0-60 km/h 2,6 s 2,5 s
0-80 km/h 3,7 s 3,5 s
0-100 km/h 4,9 s 4,8 s
0-120 km/h 6,3 s 6,2 s
0-140 km/h 8,0 s 7,7 s
0-160 km/h 9,9 s 9,7 s
0-180 km/h 12,4 s 11,8 s
0-200 km/h 15,2 s 14,7 s

Höchstgeschwindigkeit 250 km/h 317 km/h

Elastizität
80-100 km/h
(4./5./6./7. Gang) 2,1 s /3,2 s /4,7 s / - s 2,2 s /3,5 s /5,5 s / - s
80-120 km/h
(4./5./6./7. Gang) 4,4 s /6,3 s /9,2 s / - s 4,3 s /6,8 s /10,7 s / - s
80-140 km/h
(4./5./6./7. Gang) 6,7 s /9,5 s /13,5 s / - s 6,3 s /9,9 s /15,5 s / - s
80-160 km/h
(4./5./6./7. Gang) 9,1 s /12,9 s /18,1 s / - s 8,3 s /13,0 s /20,4 s / -
80-180 km/h
(4./5./6./7. Gang) 11,6 s /16,4 s / - s / - s 10,4 s /16,1 s / - s / - s

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http://www.germancarzone.com/interna...aguar-xfr.html (SportAuto: Alpina B5 S vs. Jaguar XFR)

edit: merged threads

More like extremely ugly

So the Alpina has more horsepower, greater torque, a lower total weight, and even wins the 100km/h and 200km/h standing-start sprints, yet the way the Jag's gearing is calibrated seems to be the reason why it edged-out the Alpina around the track. Just have a look at how much quicker the Jag's 5th and 6th gears are!

Finally all these numbers are starting to make sense to me.

Well I've driven the 5 series (not the Alpina B5 though) and I liked it. On the other hand, I've always hated the beaver look and that extra piece on the headlight has annoyed me since the car first came out (thank god the new model won't have that well at least thats what I gather from the spy shots).

The Jaguar looks are more too my liking. So I would probably go with the Jaguar.

Jag also has better and flatter torque curve but Alpina offers most of it's torque above 4500 RPM and it's torque curve is very UNFLAT despite having a Kompressor.It is not the advantage of Jag's Gearing, it is because of better torque curve which makes the Jag more flexible in 5th and 6th gears.B5 and XFR both have similar gear ratios and B5 has a little shorter final drive ratio so B5 has better and shorter overall ratios so the advantage of gearing is for ALPINA not the Jag.

Now compare these two with the M5:

80-120 km/h
(4./5./6./7. Gang) 4,4 s /6,3 s /9,2 s / - s 4,3 s /6,8 s /10,7 s / - 4.3 s /5.8 s /7.2 s/9.3 s/

M5 has 520NM but pulls better than these two cars which both have Kompressor and a lot of torque!