Peter saw a great German perspective on two versions of the XE
https://youtu.be/hHPIIHdiBfAgive a watch it's quite thorough. (apart from the date of the review in the title that is!)
Watching that was hard work! It was disappointing that the revue highlighted a poorer than sector interior - thats the one area where I would have hoped that Jaguar could better the pretty ordinary German efforts. And still on the negatives, the rear end looks like an almost straight BMW rip off. But the performance seemed to rate well .
The question in my mind would be the reliability. Quality wise Jaguar have claimed more resurrections than Lazarus, each time for it to be proved a bit over hyped. Buying with my own money, I would only consider a Jag if it offered something not available elsewhere as the F type does for example. The XE seems fairly similar to the 3 series so I would chose the German offering. If I still had a company car, it would be a different choice.