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A funny thing happened when I configured two recent press cars using TrueDelta’s pricing tool: it turned out that both press fleet cars were configured in a way that they cost more for less content.

With Jaguar’s midsize sedan, if you add two items standard on the 380-horsepower XF S to the 340-horsepower XF R Sport, 20-inch wheels and adaptive dampers, the latter ends up $450 more expensive, even though it lacks the former’s more powerful engine and seats with power-adjustable side bolsters. Jaguar charges about $10,000 for the same engine upgrade in the F-Type. Forty more horsepower and better seats for negative $450? Sign me up! The XF R Sport really makes no sense unless someone does not want the additional power and features of the XF S.

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The Audi Q7 I tested was equipped with all of the features in the Prestige Package, but a la carte. As such it cost $200 more than a Q7 with the Prestige Package, but without the head-up display included in that package.

Such illogical configurations happen because configurators generally have people select packages, not individual features. With TrueDelta’s configurator you select individual features and it figures out which packages make the most sense–not always an easy task.