The wind deflector on the XF with sunroof open looks a little funky, but I’m sure it eliminates unwanted buffeting noises from entering the cabin. Under the hood is a supercharged V8 and those hood vents are functional too!
The engine uses two air intakes which merge at the throttle body going into the supercharger. Air goes in through the front bumper opening, up into these duct things to go over the radiator, down into the bottom of the air boxes, through the air filter, then up and over to the supercharger.
Jag is still using some old Ford tooling for now. The torque spec is listed on the cap which is nice. Do techs actually torque it down properly? I’ll go with not likely.
The F-Type has this little rear pop-up spoiler like the 911 Carrera. I think those wing mount/linkage components are plastic. I mean, I know the specs for modern plastics and they are now suitable to replace metals in some applications, but it still doesn’t give me warm and fuzzy feelings. I must be getting old and grumpy.
The next little room had some SUVs.
The event/marketing team appears to lack anyone who rides a bicycle judging by the handlebars on the bike. This bike rack looks a little difficult to me to use as this E-PACE is a tall vehicle, so it seems you have to hold the bike up vertical until you get that center bar latched onto the downtube. I didn’t actually try it out though, so who knows how easy or hard it is to actually use.
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There are a couple of problems with these new cars and their array of LCD panels. First, they are really hard to see in bright sunlight. I’m pretty sure it was the Audi E-Tron, that has rearview cameras instead of mirrors, with LCD panels for view screens and the glare from inside the window made it nearly impossible to see the panel clearly. I can imagine, it’s even worse if you have a sunroof.
Secondly, I hope you can disable some of these panels at night, because from some of the reviews I have seen, they are a total distraction for night driving. Personally, I can’t stand to have anything remotely bright in my peripheral vision. Not to mention, that they produce glare off the winshield if not properly shielded.
I was always a big fan of the SAAB ‘night driving mode’.
Yup, I always turn down the brightness on my dash in my cars to avoid messing up my eyes at night. I gave that feedback to my coworkers while doing a user evaluation at my last company. There needs to be a night mode on any big displays.
I’m not quite sure what Byton is thinking with their full dash display. And steering wheel display. Looking at the steering wheel while driving seems like a bad idea.