What is it?
This is the entry-level version of the much-anticipated new Jaguar F-Type sports car, and at £58,500 it has raised more than a few eyebrows with its price. However, now that we’ve driven the F-type in all of its various guises and realised that it is more than just a little bit good, that asking price now makes if not perfect then reasonably decent sense.
What Jaguar has produced, even in this basic model, is a not a car that sits beside the Porsche Boxster as an obvious rival. It sits above the mighty Porsche (but beneath the Porsche 911 in this instance), which is why its pricing strategy now just about adds up.
What you get with the basic V6 model is not exactly a basic car. The supercharged V6 engine produces a rousing 336bhp at 6500rpm and 332lb ft between 3500-5000rpm, and the gearbox is the same eight-speed Quickshift from ZF that you get in both the more expensive F-types. All up, the largely aluminium F-type V6 weighs just 1597kg.
You lose the diffs from the more expensive versions (mechanical in the F-type V6 S, electronically controlled in the V8 S), and the wheels and tyres shrink to mere 18s, but the V6 doesn't feel like it is missing much on the road.
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Aples to oranges
Dear Maxecat, you are comparing apples to oranges. The F Type S costs 20,000 more than the Boxster S, for the same 0-60 time.
Nice try........
F Type 0-62 5.3s Boxster S
F Type 0-62 5.3s
Boxster S 0-62 4.8s
The F-Type is comprehensively outclassed by a far superior vehicle.
English Power
Boxster 0 to 62 5.8 seconds
F Type S 0 to 62 4.8 seconds
The Boxster is comprehensively outclassed by a far superior ( English Power) vehicle.
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GermanPower, I think you really must be German. Your sense of humour definitely is.
if you have to ask the price . . .
I think that it is priced between the two Porsche products almost by chance - the real reasoning behind the pricing is that it reflects what Jaguar's target market can afford to pay.