Jaguar has always said the
F-Type
was its 'Evoque' car and while sales were never going to approach those of the wildly popular baby Range Rover, the F-Type has become Jaguar's second best selling model in the first three months across Europe this year, beating the XJ limo and the XK.
It's outselling the Toyota GT86!
In the year to the end of March Jaguar shifted 950 of its two-seater in the region, putting it only behind the XF in terms of popularity. Not bad for a car that starts at just over £50,000 and demands you pack light even for overnighters.
That meant it outsold the Mercedes SL and even the 'people's sports car', the Toyota GT86, which ended a very bad first quarter down 45 percent on last year's figure.
It has got a long way to chase the Porsche 911 however, which remains top of the tree with sales of 3,619 in the same period. Jaguar will certainly close some of that gap when sales of the F-Type Coupe properly get going, and in the UK the firm reckons the convertible already outsold all versions of the Porsche model so far this April. We couldn't get full UK figures from the firm, but Jaguar predicts we'll account for a quarter of all F-Type sales worldwide with the coupe taking 60 per cent of those UK sales.
Roadsters now sub-£50K in the classifieds
Of course the F-Type will slip down Jaguar's rankings when the smaller XE saloon goes on sale next year, and given the Cayenne's dominance of Porsche sales, no doubt
the crossover
More new sales means more choice in the classifieds, and the convertible has already dropped below the £50k mark. And the V8 S is a lot more appealing at £65,000 than £80,000. Not such relief with the tin-top: this queue-jump V8 R Coupe is £91,000.