Jaguar has overhauled the Jaguar F-Type sports car with new styling and technology to take on the latest Porsche 911.
The targets were to give it a “more assertive” look, to improve key elements like the infotainment system and to lift materials quality to the level of more recently launched models, such as the Jaguar I-Pace.
One major surprise is the disappearance of the F-Type V6. From 2020, the Jag sports car will come with a choice of either two 5.0-litre supercharged V8 power levels (retaining the 567bhp at 6500rpm version, and a new unit with 444bhp at 6000rpm) or the continuing entry-level 2.0-litre turbocharged Ingenium four-cylinder engine producing 296bhp at 5500rpm.
In a reorganisation at the top of the F-Type’s three-tier range, the 567bhp performance versions of the coupé and convertible are available with only all-wheel drive and the plushest, sportiest R specification – which also gets a complete rethink of spring and damper settings. This flagship can cover 0-60mph in just 3.5sec and has a top speed of 186mph.
The 444bhp and 296bhp versions are available in either middle-level R-Dynamic trim or entry-level guise. The lower-powered V8 can turn a 4.4sec 0-60mph time and hit 177mph, while the 2.0-litre’s 0-60mph time is a respectable 5.4sec and its top speed is 155mph.
The 444bhp V8 buyer gets to choose between rear-wheel and four-wheel drive systems, while the 2.0-litre customer is offered rear drive only.
One major advantage of the smallest-engined model is its 120kg-lower kerb weight (it weighs 1520kg against 1640kg for the rear-drive V8), which lightens the nose and improves steering response. The heaviest F-Type is the full-house R convertible equipped with four-wheel drive, weighing 1760kg.
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"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
And it has nothing to do with the fact that re-using the old body shells make this "update" so much cheaper for Jaguar?
People are making out as though this is a new car from Jaguar, when in reality, it's nothing more than a face-lift of an existing model.
It won't drive much differently to the old car (in part because it will still be as heavy as ever), and the deprciation will still be horrific!
As The Who once sang: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
We were promised so much. All
We were promised so much. All those scoop photographs of camouflaged prototypes reckoned the car would be reworked to have rear seats, there would be mild hybrid straight six Ingeniums and BMW sources V8s. The end result is as big an anticlimax as the Conservative manifesto. Some new headlights and that’s it! Don’t ever go into the polling business Autocar you’d have the Greens winning by a landslide!
??? Rear seats??? WHERE???
??? Rear seats??? WHERE??? There is ZERO space behind the existing 2 seats. It would need a huge wheelbase extention. The straight-6 would be great. BMW V8 -- why would you want that? It's a JAGUAR -- a Jaguar with a BMW engine would not be a Jaguar.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
I wouldn’t disagree with any
I wouldn’t disagree with any of that, but as I said all the scoop reporting suggested that was happening. Plenty of recent articles in Autocar and others about wider collaboration between JLR and BMW on engines, electric power trains and small car platforms.
British......
Are we all complaining because it's the only half decent looking British sports car..?