2010 Jaguar XJ Spotted Taking The ‘Ring [Spy Photos]

The 2010 Saab 9-5 wasn’t the only car on the Nurburgring. Shooters spotted the highly-anticipated all-new 2010 Jaguar XJ taking a spin in military-grade camouflage. We can’t wait for the July 9th reveal.

Okay, let’session exist real frank for a moment, we love the Jaguar XJ line. Loved it since the original 1968 archetype with its goofy grille, loved the XJ Coupe, loved it during the dark times of square lights and reliability hell, and in fact loved it when Ford brought it into the modern age. The 2002 XJ-R is high on our list of must-have cars judgment death. So it’s with mixed emotions we await the all-new, traditional-shape-abandoning XJ. Is it exciting to have something which forges a unaccustomed path, sets new paradigms, takes pot shots at convention? You bet. But a little party of us last will and testament sorrow over the passing of the old-world Jaguar.

We’ll miss the beautifully proportioned shape which defined Jaguar for over four decades. The long, low, lithe silhouette is simultaneously elegant and yet influential, delicate yet commanding, masculine and feminine. Did it be delivered of a helluva lot of faults? You bet, nevertheless faults give character, and British cars have always worn their faults as badges of honor. The next XJ will be a unstained sheet, and it’s admittedly time to take a different direction, if it were not that on July 9th, when the car is formally unveiled at a especial event in London, a little gun of a great motoring after will die, but if we’re lucky, an exciting new future will replace it. [MotorAuthority]