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    When ‘old-school’ is no bad thing

    Mar 24, 2021 3 minutes
    by Octane staff and contributors

    2021 JAGUAR XF AND F-PACE

    MARK DIXON

    rushing headlong into an electric automotive future, it seems, with Jaguar recently announcing that it will offer an exclusively electric line-up from 2025. Despite that, and possibly because of it, there seems quite an appetite for traditional petrol- and diesel-engined cars at the moment – such as the three featured here, which have been heavily revised for 2021: the XF 300PS petrol saloon,

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