Hold fire on that Beemer buy

The new Jaguar XE gives BMW and Mercedes a run for their money.

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"I'm thinking of buying a new Jaguar. What do you reckon?" This is something people never ask me, says Jeremy Clarkson in The Sunday Times. They ask about BMWs and Mercedes all the time. But the Jag has "dropped off the businessman's radar completely". The reason is not hard to find. The only reason you'd have a Jag over its superb rivals is for the character. But the days when Jags had that are as long gone as Arthur Daley himself. Jags were once "caddish and wonderful", driven by "charmers and chancers". Now, they have all the character of "a man's washbag".

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