Our brief story goes back a little over two years to when Jaguar revealed the XF Sportbrake at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, giving its mid-level sedan an elongated roof and added cargo capacity.

Jaguar wasn’t planning to produce a Sportbrake version of its latest XF, with the F-Pace already going great guns in the market and providing practically-minded Jaguar buyers with a suitable option.

We had both a XF Sportbrake S and a V90 T6 AWD R-Design ... They do get to that price in different ways, though. The Jaguar is only available in the top-level S trim, which brings many features ...

The Sportbrake ... out of the XE and XF line-ups with the order books closing in May 2018. With a small uptake for the sub-R and SVR models over their product lives, Jaguar saw little reason ...