Welcome to the new X-Type forum. Perhaps you found this page from a posting on bimmer.org, or perhaps from a search on the web. However you came across it, I hope you will find this to be a good discussion area for the exciting X-Type. It will be interesting to see how this new Jaguar develops and how well it will compete against BMW and Mercedes. It certainly has touch competition. All-wheel-drive and the possibility of a stick-shift make it an exciting potential contender.