Our XKR had the heated and cooled front seats with 16-way adjustment including bolstering.   You can snug up the seat so that you don't slide around when you toss the Jag around corners at the G-forces that its rigid monocoque chassis and fine-tuned suspension can deliver.   The twin-stitched leather is available in caramel, charcoal or ivory.   Mostly, these seats are made for cruising.   Ivory leather with Oyster trim and carpeting says it all.   Although, ivory leather could be found in British sports cars in the '50s, too.  

You are surrounded by elegant materials, especially the wood (after all it's a Jaguar), your choice among Rich Oak, Dark Oak, Burr Walnut or Ebony, depending on the model.   There's also Knurled Aluminum and Dark Mesh Aluminum.   We liked the aluminum more than the Rich Oak in our car.   Burr Walnut is the classic.  

It's easy to forget the XK has a back seat.   Rear legroom is 27.6 inches, about 70 percent as much as your average back seat.   But average back seats don't have 30 percent to lose, so the plus-two part is for kids only (not counting packages, but not forgetting them, either).   We have two of them, 11 and 14, and they could only both fit in the XK with one in the front passenger seat moved full forward, the other behind him and complaining.   Imagine that, a 14-year-old complaining that the $102,000 Jaguar he was being chauffeured around in wasn't comfortable enough for him.   Good thing it was a convertible and the top was down and he didn't have to duck and squeeze to get in.  

The back seat might be small, but the trunk of the convertible is large, and the storage capacity of the coupe is massive.  

Finally gone is the J-gate and shift lever, replaced by the trademarked JaguarDrive Selector as introduced on the XF.   It's a big shiny knob on the center console that didn't work perfectly for us.   You rotate it from Park, to Reverse, Neutral, Drive and Sport.   We wanted to dial it into Reverse and back up, quicker than it wanted us to, it wanted more than a flick.   In Drive or Sport, you manually shift with well-shaped paddles on the steering wheel, that is slightly changed with a leather third spoke and growler badge.   But we're not fans of the shift knob.   It looks like navigation system controller or an iDrive.  

A big red keyless starter button is on the console just ahead of the transmission selector dial.   START STOP it says, and there's something alarming about it, the bright emergency redness, like it's the trigger to an ejection seat or something.   It pulses like a heartbeat, weirdly.   The ergonomic idea is for the transmission selector knob to pop up under your palm, immediately after you push the start button, sort of like a relay runner handing off a baton.   The handshake of the new Jaguar.  

The gauges and instrumentation aren't special like we would hope from Jaguar.   Clean aluminum bezels, but not as simple and racy as those in, say, a Dodge Ram pickup.   Definitely easy enough to read, but they don't make you say I love my Jaguar when you look at them.   Although some might say that about the new white illumination, and red needles on the XKR.  

The big wide center stack is mostly filled by an LCD touch-screen that's not nearly as intuitive as we would have liked.   We found it difficult to operate.   Radio tuning isn't easy, even after you figure it out, with too many extra steps to perform a simple function.   We usually managed to get what we wanted out of the touch screen, but we didn't care for it.