WHAT WE LIKE: When cars fix themselves. Remember the noises we kept hearing from under the Jaguar?s hood, detailed in our last update" We?re not hearing them anymore. Various staffers had thought they might be coming from the supercharger, or something rattling around in the intake manifold, or maybe a pulley bearing. In our last update, the dealer replaced a pulley and both fuel pumps, and yet the gravelly noise didn?t disappear. Well, at least not right away. Because here we are, thousands of miles and months later and either we?ve developed Stockholm syndrome or the car isn?t sounding so defective now. There?s still a fair bit of supercharger whine, and you?d never confuse the XE?s intake sound with that of a Lexus?or a Porsche, for that matter?but it doesn?t sound like anything is amiss. Maybe now those of us who really like driving the XE can convince the ones who have been avoiding the car to give it another chance. READ MORE ??
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