A slightly disingenuous statement, to be fair. But it got your attention! It would be horrifying for Jaguar to discover that they’d built a glorious car like the new Jaguar XJ, only to find they’d dropped a huge clanger by making it an illegal road car in the US. It’s not that bad, but Ian Callum – Jaguar’s design guru – has confessed that the dual-view screen in the new XJ is actually not legal in the US. In the UK and Europe they are legal, but not when the car is moving (which is why, if you have one fitted, the screen goes blank in the front – although the sound continues – if you’re watching a DVD or TV before you move off).
So will this be enough to make the system a non-starter in the US, or will US regulators accept the technology advance as sufficient reason to amend the rules? It seems likely they will change the rules, but you never know. But it won’t just be Jaguar affected if they don’t. Mercedes announced a split screen system for the S Class a few months ago, and you can bet your boots others will soon
