2024
Automatic
26.2 mpg
Tax: £180
Mileage: 20
Petrol
26.7 mpg
Mileage: 55
27.2 mpg
Mileage: 112
27.4 mpg
Mileage: 278
2023
Mileage: 1,000
Mileage: 1,589
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30.4 mpg
Mileage: 4,814
Mileage: 4,999
Mileage: 5,505
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What do you expect a Jaguar sportscar to be? Charismatic? Memorable? Classically elegant? The company's F-TYPE model claims all these attributes. It's a little bit special. And it's changed quite a bit since we first saw this Convertible version back in 2013. First with the launch of an alternative fixed-top Coupe body style in 2014. Then with the announcement of manual transmission and AWD a year later. A frantic flagship SVR V8 derivative arrived in 2015 with supercar-style performance, just before the introduction of a minor facelift, an uprated V6 engine option and, perhaps most significantly, in mid-2017, an entry-level four cylinder variant. Finally, at the end of 2019, there was the wider reaching facelift that created the version we're going to look at here. With this, the aging supercharged petrol V6 mid-range unit was finally pensioned off and a de-tuned version of the top supercharged V8 powerplant inserted into the range in its place.
It's hard not to have pre-conceptions about what this Jaguar might be like, especially if you're the kind of buyer who might ordinarily prefer a German-branded sportscar. We came to this test with just such a preference, but we've ended it understanding afresh just why this F-TYPE is such an appealing prospect. Of course, it's asking a lot for one model to straddle so many different sportscar segments. At one end of the range, the 2.0-litre derivative could be an alternative to cars as relatively affordable as a well-specified Audi's TTS. At the other, the flagship R version has the performance to worry a McLaren! While in the middle of the line-up, the potent P450 V8 variant battles Porsche's iconic 911. True, it won't match a rival Porsche model's delicacy of response at the limit, but in compensation, you'll get yourself a car that's arguably better looking, unarguably better equipped, more powerful and endowed with a greater sense of occasion, inside and out. Plus it steers, handles, stops, goes - and sounds - exactly like a Jaguar sportscar should. Don't knock it because it's not a Boxster or a 911: the F-TYPE was never intended to be like anything else. This model is different - powerful, sensual, ultra-precise: a car that feels alive. Jaguar needed to find a younger, more demanding, hungrier audience for its sportscars. It needed to convince people like us that here and now in this market at this time in history, it could be great again. Mission accomplished.
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