+ Bugatti Atalanta looks

+ Mercedes engineering

+ Performance (is better than most journos say it is)

+ Solid driver

- SRT is auto only

- Body parts are getting hard to find and expensive

- Cheap interior dash materials and trim, particularly the silver stuff

- Service support, no-one wants to touch them

Other than that I think the XF is a great little car at a bargain price. Sure, they have a few quirks but what car doesn’t ? I think the few XF problems that exist are amplified by the folks who just don’t like them.

They really don’t know what they are missing.

My daughter bought a 50k miles XF for $8k and loves it, I’m dumping my BMW fetish and looking for a good SRT or non SRT stick coupe.