Jaguar XK Diesel spotted?

Is this the Jaguar XK Diesel

We’ve run the odd story over the last year or two about the possibility of Jaguar creating a Jaguar XK Diesel. But it hasn’t happened. Yet.

But it makes a lot of sense. We’re currently blatting around in a long-term 3.0 litre diesel XJ, and the more we drive it, the more we like it. The sequential turbo-charging gives the TDV6 very linear - almost petrol-like  performance.

And it’s far from slow - 0-60mph comes up in 6 seconds and it feels quicker, thanks in no small part to the decent wodge of torque on offer. Not only that, but it always does more than 40mpg on a run and even manages over 30mpg if all we do is use it to go to lunch up the road for a few days.

Which makes a 3.0 litre diesel Jaguar XK rather appealing. Much to our surprise. But despite the obvious sense in an XK Diesel we’re still waiting for it to happen. Or is it about to be announced?

Autoblog are running photos of what they call the Jaguar XK facelift. And they may be right, although the XK got a bit of a tweak  in 2009 when the new engines arrived so a facelift isn’t exactly overdue. So we wonder, could this be the new Jaguar XK Diesel? Could that camouflage disguise revised air intakes and a slightly different snout to mark out an XK burning the Devil’s fuel?

And could the use of Trade Plates on this Jaguar XK be done to hide the running gear? Jaguar got caught out a month or two back running a 2.2 litre diesel in the XF by the simple device of doing a DVLA check on the registration number. If this is a diesel XK the use of Trade Plates would hide the details of the running gear.

We should know soon enough.

Image Source: Autoblog

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