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Byline: MAC MORRISON
Question: What's a Jaguar if not exclusive? Answer: An X-Type. Okay, let's get this straight.
We appreciate the X-Type's strong powertrain, grippy chassis and all-season usability. But if we learned anything from our yearlong test of Coventry's entry-level cat (AW, April 15, 2002), it was that we didn't feel as special behind the wheel as we anticipated. Oh, we tried to make our car stand out. We washed. We waxed. We got sideways. No one (except the gazillion other X-Type owners) noticed. Much too late (for us, not you), we discovered help was a mere ocean away, in the form of Jochen Arden.
Arden's Jaguar association began as a dealer in 1982. Today, his Krefeld, Germany-based company (arden.de) engineers and produces cosmetic and engine upgrades, as well as everything in between, for the entire Jaguar line. Arden's U.S. affiliate, XKs Unlimited in San Luis Obispo, California, stocks a range of parts for the S-Type, XK, earlier XJs (a product line for the new aluminum XJ arrives shortly) and X-Type.
To demonstrate the understated X-Type's style potential, XKs own-er Jason Len equipped his person-al 3.0-liter, manual-transmission car with Arden's upper ($384) and low- er ($452) stainless mesh ...
Source: HighBeam Research, FANCY CAT; Jochen Arden spices up Jaguar's...