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"  Like all automakers fighting the fuel economy battle, Jaguar is downsizing its engine lineup. Automotive News reports that Jag, which now has only V-8s, will be offering both 2.0-liter turbo 4 and 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 engines with the 2013 model year. Jaguar&amp;#039;s XF sedan will get the four and a V-6, while the XJ will add a V-6. Horsepower of the four is 240, while there will be two versions of the V-6, one at 340 bhp, the other producing 380. Backing the engines will be 8-speed automatic transmissions. Automotive News quoted Jaguar Land Rover North America&amp;#039;s boss, Andy Goss, as explaining, &amp;quot;We have only V-8s in a market that has moved to six-cylinder. With the V-8, we are fishing in a small pond.&amp;quot; If all this seems like heresy, test drive a Range Rover Evoque with the 2.0-liter turbocharged four. It boasts 240 bhp and 251 lb-ft of torque and is the same Ford EcoBoost engine found in that automaker&amp;#039;s Edge and Explorer. The Evoque performs nicely, getting to 60 mph in around 7 seconds. Granted the XF is about 380 lbs heavier than the Evoque, but we don&amp;#039;t know how much weight will be saved with the 4-cylinder drivetrain or what difference those two extra gears in the transmission will mean. We&amp;#039;d guess the XF&amp;#039;s 0-60 would be around 7 sec, putting it at about a 1-second-or-less disadvantage to the Mercedes Benz E350 and BMW 528i. Then again, the Jaguars could well have a fuel economy advantage. We won&amp;#039;t know those numbers until next month. Related posts:   A Quartet of E-Type Jaguars \u2013 2012 Monterey Auctions  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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