RE: Revealed: Jaguar F-Type
Discussion
What's wrong with you people? It's gorgeous, and it's British! I'm convinced some people like to moan about everything any anything to just somehow feel justified in their existence on here! 
It's red but that does not make it look like a Ferrari!
We should all be very proud of what Jaguar are doing here. Yes it will look better with a roof, but this is taking the fight to the Boxster and I for one hope it does well indeed.
It's red but that does not make it look like a Ferrari!
We should all be very proud of what Jaguar are doing here. Yes it will look better with a roof, but this is taking the fight to the Boxster and I for one hope it does well indeed.
Phil Dicky said:
Its a thumbs up from me, providing Jag do the right thing price wise.....at £45-50k its okay at £70k thats been suggested its a non starter
Well it is meant to sit below the XK, so I'd expect the former. It will probably come in a number of engine outputs, so it may range from £45-70k depening on whether you have around 300bhp or 550bhp! TheAntics said:
This isn't a boxter contender...it's a different car altogether. I expect it to be priced much closer to the 911 and performance figures that sit between the cayman r and the 991 C2S.
Exactly... It's supposed to sit between the Boxster and the 911, it's a tad bigger than a Boxster. Do people on here actually follow the development of a new car or just wait til it appears and slag it off?Whatever Jaguar built some folk are always going to be left disappointed or just not like what's on offer.
Personally I love it... Just like the concept, it's what jaguar need... Only demerit is auto only, they will lose potential customers for not offering manual or dual clutch boxes. Doesn't stop Mercedes selling loads of sports cars though.
ParanoidAndroid said:
Red one looks good, but silver/grey one looks a tad dull to me - I guess this is the base spec model - maybe its the wheels? The prototype Coupe was a stunning car, perhaps that's the one to wait for.
What we all need to bare in mind is that:1. Jaguar used to be aimed at a staid upper class market, bank managers, accountants, politicians and the like (Well not forgetting the exceptions, bank robbers like in the Sweeney of course).
2. Over the years the marketing boys have got a hold of the marque and manipulated it in to one more attractive to the younger set, sporty and attractive to the more flamboyant.
3. By developing cars like the XK8 R & RS along side the more sober XJ Saloons and family orientated 'X' Type Diesel Estates they have widened their market to survive in a vastly more competitive modern market.
Marvellous job to my mind, brilliant, well done Mr Lyons (OK, OK, I know he's deceased and the company has had more owners than a twebty year old Fiesta but you get my drift).
So it's a mishmash of S2000, Ferrari California, some sort of Maserati and a GT86?
I think it's beautiful.
It's only 'safe' in as much as it sticks to time honoured proof that proprtion is key. Overhangs, details and stance.
It has more curves, totally different detail and a much more steeply raked windscreen than an S2000.
Totally different scale and detailing to a California.
And whilst it could come from Maserati, they don't don't have anything similar and it doesn't come from them, so....
The GT86 link is just plain daft.
However as someone else has said, linking the overall look to these cars can only be a massive positive.
The coupe will be the new 'best looking' car to date (in it's sector or pretty much all others).
This open top is just a derivative of that (in the same way an SLS opentop loses alot of drama from the SLS tin-top)
I think it's beautiful.
It's only 'safe' in as much as it sticks to time honoured proof that proprtion is key. Overhangs, details and stance.
It has more curves, totally different detail and a much more steeply raked windscreen than an S2000.
Totally different scale and detailing to a California.
And whilst it could come from Maserati, they don't don't have anything similar and it doesn't come from them, so....
The GT86 link is just plain daft.
However as someone else has said, linking the overall look to these cars can only be a massive positive.
The coupe will be the new 'best looking' car to date (in it's sector or pretty much all others).
This open top is just a derivative of that (in the same way an SLS opentop loses alot of drama from the SLS tin-top)
HighwayStar said:
TheAntics said:
This isn't a boxter contender...it's a different car altogether. I expect it to be priced much closer to the 911 and performance figures that sit between the cayman r and the 991 C2S.
Exactly... It's supposed to sit between the Boxster and the 911, it's a tad bigger than a Boxster. Do people on here actually follow the development of a new car or just wait til it appears and slag it off?Whatever Jaguar built some folk are always going to be left disappointed or just not like what's on offer.
Personally I love it... Just like the concept, it's what jaguar need... Only demerit is auto only, they will lose potential customers for not offering manual or dual clutch boxes. Doesn't stop Mercedes selling loads of sports cars though.
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