The new Jaguar XF has won the 'Design Award' at the Autocar Awards 2007 which took place at The Royal Horticultural Halls in London last night. This prestigious prize is part of Autocar's annual tribute to outstanding achievements within the automotive industry and the people who work in it.

Ian Callum, Jaguar's design director, picked up the award commenting: "This is the first timeJaguar has wonthis highly respected Autocar award for a production car and I'm absolutely thrilled it has been given to the new XF. It's wonderful to receive recognition for our efforts within the industry and from our ultimate critics - the motoring media."

Editor of Autocar Chas Hallett said: "What most impressed Autocar's judging panel is Jaguar's success in producing a car that looks elegant, graceful and 'Jaguar-like'. This is a car, we believe, of which Sir William Lyons, founder of Jaguar would thoroughly have approved."

Available to order now, the XF made its public debut at the Frankfurt International Motor Show in September and is officially on sale from June next year.

All XF's feature a sophisticated six-speed automatic transmission that includes a unique, all-new JaguarDrive Selector - an industry first rotary shift interface - and the Jaguar Sequential Shift+óGÇP-ó System with steering-wheel mounted paddles for one-touch manual control.

Other notable awards for the XF include 'Most exciting car to be launched in 2007' voted for by readers of What Car? magazine and 'Interior of the Year Award 2007' from CAR magazine.

Jaguar last won this accolade in 2001 for the R-COUPE concept, another design led by Ian Callum.

The full XF press pack and images of the new XF can be accessed at Auto Deadline.

Notes to Editors
Autocar magazine is published weekly by Haymarket Magazines Limited. Launched in November 1895, it's the world's oldest motoring title, and currently has an average readership in the UK of 275,000 per issue and over one million worldwide.

Published in the United Kingdom. It has editions in Italy, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Greece, Denmark, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, South Africa, Middle East, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. These are produced either under licence to Haymarket or via joint ventures.

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