Look closely these pictures of the 2009 Jaguar XKR coupe and you will notice revised lower front fascia with wider smiling center air intake that put back the triple-port lower fascia of the current model. , the XK, which already does a remarkable impression of James Bond’s famous Aston Martins, come into view on track to get at least some technologies that are straight out of 007’s gadget gathering, including the “Jaguar Drive” shifter.

Jaguar Drive was first previewed on the C-XF thought sedan that we inhaled and licked and pawed last January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Well, that’s comprehensible—given the significance (and beauty) of the car’s design, it was easy to overlook its interior particulars, particularly as the car left the show before the public days.

Even if Jaguar Drive elements were take in, many believed that, of all things, the sleek, integrated shift mechanism in particular was more auto-show than auto-go. And even fewer probable it to appear on other Jag models, like the still-fresh XK

[ via: Car and Driver]

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