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THE Jaguar XE may look like an ordinary compact sedan but it is as revolutionary as its predecessor was mundane. In the early 2000s, Jaguar produced the X-Type, which was basically a modified Mondeo (Ford owned Jaguar then). Fast forward nearly a decade and a half and the baby Jag is a very important new model, one in which the British manufacturer has invested £2 billion (S$4.4 billion).

The XE gets a brand new car architecture on which future Jaguar models will be based on, with an aluminium-intensive monocoque structure and a sophisticated suspension system. The aim is to achie…