The Jaguar F-Type Thread

Jaguar F-Type review

WHAT'S THE VERDICT?

“The F-Type has been a great sports car for nearly a decade now, albeit in its own little segment”

The F-Type is a great sports car. It has been for nearly a decade now. Great if you relish a mildly brutish coupe or cabrio with a large engine up front, less good if you want something stuffed to the gunwales with technology.
It continues to sit in its own little segment, though, priced between Caymans and 911s while doggedly offering something a little different to both. And with neater, more trustworthy handling than ever, a charismatic V8 engine and a sheen of extra modernity inside, it’s not much harder to recommend than it was back in 2013. Whatever you think of those headlights.

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Jaguar F-Type Review 2023 | Top Gear

Slightly sharper looks, slightly sharper chassis... but otherwise refreshingly old-school. The F-Type doesn't cause any upsets. Phew
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Jaguar F-Type Convertible 75 P450 RWD

Not that the P450 is exactly a bargain: it’s still priced well above the Boxster GTS. Discounts will narrow that gap significantly, though, and the F-Type’s more relaxed, easygoing nature, noisier (if not necessarily stronger) performance and enduring elegance gives it almost as much appeal today as a decade ago.

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Jaguar F-Type Convertible 75 P450 RWD | Autocar

Last-gasp for the convertible F-Type packs plenty of old-world charm
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Jaguar Is Preserving V8 Sounds For Posterity

The automaker is currently storing recordings of the F-Type’s V8 in the British National Library.

The future is electric at Jaguar. While other automakers have plans in place to have full or partial EV lineups by the 2030s, Jaguar’s EV plans are set to begin much sooner. The brand plans to go all electric by 2025. These plans coincide with a push upmarket. They want to sell expensive British luxury EVs, mainly to Americans. But before any of this comes to pass, Jaguar is recording and preserving the sounds of its V8 engine so future generations can enjoy them.

The firm recently took its V8 powered F-Type sports car and placed it inside of a special sound proof chamber and let it loose. The exhaust sounds were recorded in a semi-anechoic chamber, the same chamber where Jaguar fine tunes the sound of it’s engines.

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Jaguar Is Preserving V8 Sounds For Posterity

The automaker is currently storing recordings of the F-Type’s V8 in the British National Library.
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New Jaguar F-Type limited edition celebrates E-Type before it dies in 2024

F-Type ‘ZP Edition’ is the last ever limited edition, marking the end of Jag’s ICE sportscars

The Jaguar F-Type will die in 2024 to make way for the brand’s shiny new all-electric future. To send it off in style comes the new limited edition F-Type ZP Edition.

Just 150 versions of this particular F-Type will be built, and even then only 10 will be allocated to the UK. As you’d expect of a car marking the end of Jaguar’s internal combustion engined sportscars able to trace a line back to the 1960s, they’re all the massive V8 versions.

Massively supercharged V8 versions. Each ZP Edition will be spun off the range-topping 567bhp petrol V8 F-Type, whose sound has of course been immortalised by the British Library. Performance is unchanged: 0-60mph takes 3.5s, and it’ll go 186mph (where applicable) flat out.

Both the coupe and convertible F-Type ZP Editions will then take inspiration from two “iconic” racing E-Types from the Sixties for its decorative affectations. There are two ‘colourways’ available celebrating the race-winning Project ZP E-Types raced after the sportscar launched in 1961.

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New Jaguar F-Type limited edition celebrates E-Type before it dies in 2024

F-Type ‘ZP Edition’ is the last ever limited edition, marking the end of Jag’s ICE sportscars
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End of an era as Jaguar announces last petrol-powered sports car

Jaguar has an enviable sports car heritage stretching all the way back to the SS 90 of the 1930s, but the British marque is perhaps best known for the gorgeous E-Type of the 1960s.

While that lineage continues to some degree with the current F-Type, there are big changes ahead as Jaguar plans to reinvent itself as an all-electric car company from 2025 onwards.

And with that comes the news that the brand will build its last petrol-powered sports car in 2024.

To commemorate, Jaguar will be producing a special edition F-Type called the ZP Edition.

Just 150 cars will be built for the world, and only two of them are destined for South Africa, in Coupe form. Select markets will also get the option of a Convertible.

Featuring unique exterior and interior touches curated by JLR’s SV Bespoke division, the special edition cars are powered by the company’s 5.0-litre supercharged V8 engine that thrashes out 423kW and 700Nm.

With power going to all four wheels through an eight-speed autobox, this Jag can sprint from 0-100km/h in just 3.7 seconds.

The edition takes inspiration from the race-winning ‘Project ZP’ cars that marked the E-Type’s successful race debut in 1961.

 
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