The Jaguar F-Type boasts a 75-year bloodline
Change is in the air though and customers are invited to reserve and custom their choice of the final model year derivatives before the Jaguar become electrically powered from 2025.
For the final model year, on sale from early 2023, the range has become simpler and more focused, making it easy for customers to select their perfect F-Type.
To mark the final model year of F-Type and 75 years of Jaguar sports car, customers can choose the new F-Type 75 or F-Type R 75 special editions. These are distinguished by unique interior and exterior design elements, carefully curated specifications, and, of course, the supercharged 5.0-litre Jaguar V8 engine synonymous with F-Type. These exclusive models are a fitting celebration of internal combustion engine performance before Jaguar becomes a pure electric modern luxury brand from 2025.
Matthew Beaven, Jaguar Land Rover’s chief designer, exteriors, said, “For 75 years Jaguar has been renowned for producing extraordinary sports cars that deliver performance, agility and maximum driver reward. The F-Type special editions hold true to these principles, adding unique interior and exterior design details to celebrate this lineage before Jaguar becomes an all-electric brand from 2025.”
Design
The powerful proportions of the front-engine two-seater – with its body structure sculpted from light, stiff aluminium – are instantly recognisable.
As part of the curated, simplified customer offer, every F-Type in the range is now offered with a model-specific 20″ wheel as standard, with the F-Type 75 and R 75 distinguished by their gloss black, five-spoke- and gloss black diamond-turned 10-spoke designs respectively.
The F-Type’s driver-focused interior is a pure expression of the car’s elegance and performance. Combining Jaguar craftsmanship, exquisite, details and rich materials and finishes deliver a heightened sense of luxury and sportiness.
The “1+1″ cockpit features a 12.3” reconfigurable interactive driver display, offering a choice of display themes, as befits a true sports car, the default mode is characterised by the large central rev counter.
This feature and the gearshift light subtly convey the F-Type’s character and performance potential, digitally enhancing the mechanical theatre of the pulsing red “heartbeat” of the start button and the deployable centre air vents.
Ride and handling
F-Type is a driver-focused sports car with double wishbone front and rear suspension, meticulously tuned electric power-assisted steering and torque vectoring by braking deliver outstanding agility and a truly connected feel. These attributes are fundamental to the car’s immediate and intuitive responses to every driver input.
All V8 models are equipped with Jaguar’s adaptive dynamics system with configurable dynamics. Using electronically controlled, continuously variable dampers, adaptive dynamics optimises both low speed comfort and high speed control, while configurable dynamics enables the driver to tailor the settings for suspension stiffness, steering weight, throttle response and gearshifts.
The F-Type R 75 can be specified with Jaguar’s carbon ceramic matrix braking system. Featuring 398mm and 380mm front and rear discs with six- and four-piston monobloc calipers with a distinctive yellow finish, this system delivers exceptional braking performance with outstanding fade resistance.
Powertrain
F-Type’s powerful, responsive 5.0-litre supercharged V8 engines are paired with an eight-speed Quickshift transmission with full manual control using either the SportShift gear selector or the steering wheel-mounted paddles. The engines are made at Jaguar Land Rover’s engine manufacturing centre in Wolverhampton, UK.
The 331kW, 5.0-litre supercharged V8 has been developed to offer exploitable, usable and rewarding performance, maximum torque of 580Nm is generated from 2 500rpm. In South Africa the F-Type 75 is offered exclusively with all-wheel drive and an electronic active rear differential to optimise traction and enable 0-100km/h in just 4.6 seconds with a maximum speed of 285km/h.
For truly exceptional performance in all weathers and on any kind of road, there is the F-Type R 75. Its supercharged V8 delivers 423kW and a remarkable 700Nm: the benchmark sprint to 100km/h takes just 3.7 seconds, while maximum speed is an electronically limited 300km/h.
Each engine is matched to a switchable active exhaust system as standard. The distinctive crackle and pop on the overrun synonymous with F-Type, remains, with sounds meticulously tuned to suit the distinctive character of each model. Highly efficient, close-coupled particulate filters help to minimise emissions.
The first customer deliveries begin from January 2023 – the year which marks 75 years of Jaguar sports cars – and a pivotal moment in the brand’s history as it proudly moves towards an all-electric future from 2025.
In South Africa the F-Type range will comprise:
• F-Type R-Dynamic Convertible: 331kW V8; rear-wheel drive
• F-Type 75 Convertible: 331kW V8; all-wheel drive
• F-Type R 75 Convertible: 423kW V8; all-wheel drive
• F-Type R-Dynamic Coupé: 331kW V8; rear-wheel drive
• F-Type 75 Coupé: 331kW V8; all-wheel drive
• F-Type R 75 Coupé: 423kW V8; all-wheel drive.
Source: MotorPress
