Estate of change
IN THE same way that good manners, French cuisine and – despite what my wife might think – corduroy jackets will never go out of style, neither will the interior space offered by an estate car. Even if fashions in automobile design change and more economical engines come along, a practical car should, in theory, remain just as practical in ten, 20 or even 30 years.
But can the space be updated? Can practicality be improved upon? To discover if it can we’re comparing an original XF Sportbrake with a recently facelifted current model.
Before we start, I need to come clean about something; as many of you might have already realised, the Rhodium Silver XF featured here is mine. I’m using it for this test for two reasons; firstly, as a standard example of a first generation of Sportbrake 2.2, it’s the perfect car to compare against the new Firenze Metallic Red example alongside it. Secondly – and more importantly – I don’t have to
