Jaguar F-Type R
HELLO
£104,880 OTR/£109,360 as tested/£1,132 pcm
WHY IT’S HERE
Was Jag’s final petrol sports car the wrong car at the wrong time?
DRIVER
Greg Potts
IT MAY SAY HELLO UP ABOVE, BUT WHAT FOLLOWS WILL ACTUALLY be an extended goodbye to a car that we’ve known and mostly but not always loved for quite some time Yep we’re about to spend six months in a Jaguar FType before it’s killed off for good later this year RIP old friend
It’s a slight shame that ‘our’ FType has arrived in such a dour spec though The Carpathian Grey paint is a option and isn’t a box that I’d have ticked Sadly the brilliantly bright blue and yellow shades that arrived with the facelift car have long since been removed from the configurator but you can still spec options like Firenze Red British Racing Green or a lovely lighter shade that Jag calls Giola Green The inch wheels are painted in gloss black too a photographer’s worst nightmare and we’ve got an allblack officially known as Ebony leather interior There’s a fixed rear spoiler too and I’ve never been a fan of a bewinged FType
Still I shouldn’t complain not least because the bits underneath the skin are extremely exciting This is the full fat k FType R with Jaguar’s litre supercharged V making bhp and lb ft of torque the same numbers as the prefacelift SVR That power is sent to all four wheels and an electronic diff aims to ensure maximum traction not always a given in an FType
I should also mention that this is actually the last of the line R Plus trim too so you get many other extras thrown in too More about them later
While it’s with us the FType has many questions to answer before it passes on to the next life Has it actually ever won a TopGear group test? Can this final iteration hold a candle to the current Porsche ? Will we actually miss the last ever petrol Jag sports car when it’s gone? We’ll find out over the next half year