[Andy_o]

I followed a pre production F pace up the A55 and in to the port at Holyhead and then sat behind it onto the ferry across to Dublin over the Xmas holidays.

Granted this was a fairly plain one, but it had the look of a bloated XF to me, particularly from the rear 3/4

I was behind it for about an hour either moving or sitting in the ferry queue and had plenty of time to mull it over

It definitely looks like a jag, very similar to the XF but from the quick peek of the interior it looked very like the new XE inside

I thought it looked OK but it certainly didn't wow me.

My wife's response was "what's special about that then" when the excited "boy car spotter" in me pointed it out to her

I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product, but as others have said the X3 is such a fantastic all round car

The pressure is on Bmw now .. Space, GLC, Q5, Macan and disco sport

I'm hoping the next X3 will be immense

As an aside I saw one of the new Mercedes GLC models the other day ..

And that did look very nice, but with the hideous iPad type screen, which I don't think I could live with