Jaguar XE: Look beyond the fur-miliar

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IF YOU are shopping for an executive sedan, chances are the first names that come to mind are BMW, Mercedes-Benz or Audi (in any order you please). The German trio is so synonymous with the genre that it's hard to imagine any other choice.

But if you wanted something a bit more left-field and non-German, you might want to pause and consider a Jaguar. Its XE is essentially the British answer to the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and has been recently updated to help it stay modern against the competition. That's a tall order, because the Germans aren't exactly kidding around.