When Jaguar badge a car with SE , HSE , R etc do these letters translate to proper words these days? (eg: GT was shorthand for Grand Tourer in the past) Can you define SE , HSE and R for me please?!
Tinytig1
Not sure if they are Jaguar specific but generally SE stands for Special Equipment, HSE maybe High Special Equipment. I'm not sure if the R stands for anything but was always reserved for their top-spec sporty version - XJR, S-Type R, XKR, XFR etc..... I don't think there's an XER - but maybe the R-Sport is somewhere towards it.
Ah. The history of trims 
If you want to see the chaotic progress of car manufacturer marketing teams, look no further than Ingolstadt, where Audi have quite recently decided to name their car models in odd and even numbers depending upon whether they are electric or not. And then also to change the universally misunderstood numbers and letters system for engines (35TFSI for example) with something that even they haven't revealed yet. And then this was reversed when the new A6 petrol didn't actually become the A7 because customers were confused that the A5 was actually a petrol A4. Confused? Step in JLR.
S was a V6 sport spec until it became a diesel too. And then become an entry level trim on an XE with no V6 in sight.
SE stands for Standard Equipment which has more than an S. (So what did S mean, Substandard?)
HSE stands for High Specification Equipment
R stood for V8 engines
R-S stood for monster versions of the same
R-Sport was a reaction to the competitive success of M-Sport and R-Line trims in Germany. Cars with sports kit and likely suspension but not the engines
R-Dynamic replaced R-Sport just because
I've no doubt forgotten some of them too..
And of course, for fun, you only have to go to Stuttgart, where Mercedes have had lots of fun adding tech and chopping favoured V8 engines from flagship cars only to disover that no one wants a C63 with only fake noises. Who would have thought?
Fashions come and go. Bring back the 1980s. Peak ICE car was 10 years ago.
If you want to see the chaotic progress of car manufacturer marketing teams, look no further than Ingolstadt, where Audi have quite recently decided to name their car models in odd and even numbers depending upon whether they are electric or not. And then also to change the universally misunderstood numbers and letters system for engines (35TFSI for example) with something that even they haven't revealed yet. And then this was reversed when the new A6 petrol didn't actually become the A7 because customers were confused that the A5 was actually a petrol A4. Confused? Step in JLR.
S was a V6 sport spec until it became a diesel too. And then become an entry level trim on an XE with no V6 in sight.
SE stands for Standard Equipment which has more than an S. (So what did S mean, Substandard?)
HSE stands for High Specification Equipment
R stood for V8 engines
R-S stood for monster versions of the same
R-Sport was a reaction to the competitive success of M-Sport and R-Line trims in Germany. Cars with sports kit and likely suspension but not the engines
R-Dynamic replaced R-Sport just because
I've no doubt forgotten some of them too..
And of course, for fun, you only have to go to Stuttgart, where Mercedes have had lots of fun adding tech and chopping favoured V8 engines from flagship cars only to disover that no one wants a C63 with only fake noises. Who would have thought?
Fashions come and go. Bring back the 1980s. Peak ICE car was 10 years ago.
One very special one ... SVR = Special Vehicle (Operations) and the "R" stands for aforementioned Supercharged v8
I can remember the heirarchy of trim levels that Vauxhall used in the 1980s and 90s. In ascending order: L, GL, GLS and finally CD. This was geared towards the company car market where the bigger noise in the company you were, the higher the trim level in your company car.
The brochures at the time had complex tables at the back listing all the available extras and toys downward, and the trim levels across, with dots in each field that you got with each trim level. Unlike modern car ordering where you can specify specific equipment and pay for it, I think you were stuck with the extras that came with each trim level.
The brochures at the time had complex tables at the back listing all the available extras and toys downward, and the trim levels across, with dots in each field that you got with each trim level. Unlike modern car ordering where you can specify specific equipment and pay for it, I think you were stuck with the extras that came with each trim level.
I remember when Austin trim levels were City, City X, L, HL, HLS and Vanden Plas, while Rover used the S, SE, Vitesse and Vanden Plas. And Jaguar had its Sovereign and Daimler.
I think it's pretty fair to discuss the other companies when trying to decipher the "R-Sport" in the Jaguar range.
As was said, manufacturers are producing "warm" versions using the designation of their "halo" models. R for Jaguar, M for BMW, Amg for Mercedes etc.
It's a marketing ploy to associate the car with the top of the range by giving sports suspension, maybe better brakes and a bit of fake carbon fibre etc thrown in.
As was said, manufacturers are producing "warm" versions using the designation of their "halo" models. R for Jaguar, M for BMW, Amg for Mercedes etc.
It's a marketing ploy to associate the car with the top of the range by giving sports suspension, maybe better brakes and a bit of fake carbon fibre etc thrown in.
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