I hope you are not taking delivery of an F-Type this week...

[isv]

Congrats to the driver of the new F-Type (white/black) on dealer plates that passed me at mega speed approaching the Cotswolds at 6:30am this morning. Going up Fish Hill at close on 100mph must have been fun...

However, I do hope this wasn't a customer car on its way for delivery... If you've got one coming... Well how would you ever know how it had been treated before it reached you?

[heners54]

Saw a similar deal near me, heading on trade plates to the Brown's Hill plant. Think it was blue but progressed past me that quickly my main experience of it was the roar through my open window! (worth it despite rain and 0 degrees )

Might have been a press car rather than one expecting delivery though.

[niccis dad]

isv said:

Congrats to the driver of the new F-Type (white/black) on dealer plates that passed me at mega speed approaching the Cotswolds at 6:30am this morning. Going up Fish Hill at close on 100mph must have been fun...

However, I do hope this wasn't a customer car on its way for delivery... If you've got one coming... Well how would you ever know how it had been treated before it reached you?

As long as it wasn't in 2nd. gear I don't see the problem. Cane em from the start, way to achieve "metal memory".

[Presuming Ed]

isv said:

Congrats to the driver of the new F-Type (white/black) on dealer plates that passed me at mega speed approaching the Cotswolds at 6:30am this morning. Going up Fish Hill at close on 100mph must have been fun...

However, I do hope this wasn't a customer car on its way for delivery... If you've got one coming... Well how would you ever know how it had been treated before it reached you?

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

[750turbo]

Presuming Ed said:

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

Rumour has it that this will cause the engine to fail spectacularly 5 mins out of Warranty....

[StottyZr]

Presuming Ed said:

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

Driving a car hard puts increased stress on almost every mechanical component in some way.

I'm allowed to break my own things, anybody else is not.

[Slow]

StottyZr said:

Driving a car hard puts increased stress on almost every mechanical component in some way.

I'm allowed to break my own things, anybody else is not.

Not sure 100mph is hard on a brand new jag. Or any car over 1.8l at that.

[Willy Nilly]

StottyZr said:

Presuming Ed said:

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

Driving a car hard puts increased stress on almost every mechanical component in some way.

I'm allowed to break my own things, anybody else is not.

I doubt a car like an F-Type would be under much in the way of load at 100mph, just plodding along nicely. New engines that have been worked hard from the start generally have good health.

Did you see that video of what Ford do to their Eco Boost engines that someone posted?

Engine in a crate taken off the line

Engine put in test lab

Engine spanked mercilessly from being frozen to minus a lot

Engine held under full load of hours

Test complete, engine put back on line and installed in a new pickup.

[Rich_W]

StottyZr said:

Presuming Ed said:

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

Driving a car hard puts increased stress on almost every mechanical component in some way.

I'm allowed to break my own things, anybody else is not.

Damn those Jag engines made of egg shells! If only they'd predicted delivery driver thrashings!

[isv]

Presuming Ed said:

isv said:

Congrats to the driver of the new F-Type (white/black) on dealer plates that passed me at mega speed approaching the Cotswolds at 6:30am this morning. Going up Fish Hill at close on 100mph must have been fun...

However, I do hope this wasn't a customer car on its way for delivery... If you've got one coming... Well how would you ever know how it had been treated before it reached you?

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

Call me old-fashioned, but after paying so much for a piece of modern engineering from a luxury brand well I'd expect it to be presented to me like a virgin on a bed of rose petals. Knowing that she had her back doors blown in 10 minutes before I take over... Well, just spoils it completely in my mind.

[NelsonR32]

isv said:

Presuming Ed said:

isv said:

Congrats to the driver of the new F-Type (white/black) on dealer plates that passed me at mega speed approaching the Cotswolds at 6:30am this morning. Going up Fish Hill at close on 100mph must have been fun...

However, I do hope this wasn't a customer car on its way for delivery... If you've got one coming... Well how would you ever know how it had been treated before it reached you?

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

Call me old-fashioned, but after paying so much for a piece of modern engineering from a luxury brand well I'd expect it to be presented to me like a virgin on a bed of rose petals. Knowing that she had her back doors blown in 10 minutes before I take over... Well, just spoils it completely in my mind.

But seeing you have no proof its a customers car shall we put this to bed before it turns into 10 pages of complete drivel?

[Welshbeef]

isv said:

Call me old-fashioned, but after paying so much for a piece of modern engineering from a luxury brand well I'd expect it to be presented to me like a virgin on a bed of rose petals. Knowing that she had her back doors blown in 10 minutes before I take over... Well, just spoils it completely in my mind.

Well you should have paid extra for trailered delivery or picked it up yourself! Paying for it to e driver delivered it doing it much cheaper and that way you know she will be broken in well.

However its a modern car 100mph is nothing to most cars not to worry about

[steelej]

isv said:

Call me old-fashioned, but after paying so much for a piece of modern engineering from a luxury brand well I'd expect it to be presented to me like a virgin on a bed of rose petals. Knowing that she had her back doors blown in 10 minutes before I take over... Well, just spoils it completely in my mind.

Don't ever viait the Ferrari factory and follow one of the test drivers while they're roadtesting customer cars then, you'll have nightmares

John.

[A900ss]

These are jaguar test cars I believe.

I live in Tetbury and every day we have over 10 F types on trade plates drive thru the town.



PS - I don't think it even launches until next month.

[StottyZr]

Willy Nilly said:

StottyZr said:

Presuming Ed said:

What harm do you think this will do to the car? Seriously

Driving a car hard puts increased stress on almost every mechanical component in some way.

I'm allowed to break my own things, anybody else is not.

I doubt a car like an F-Type would be under much in the way of load at 100mph, just plodding along nicely. New engines that have been worked hard from the start generally have good health.

Did you see that video of what Ford do to their Eco Boost engines that someone posted?

Engine in a crate taken off the line

Engine put in test lab

Engine spanked mercilessly from being frozen to minus a lot

Engine held under full load of hours

Test complete, engine put back on line and installed in a new pickup.

I think I posted that video. If not first, I certainly re-posted it a very long time ago

With exaggeration to help make my point... If said delivery driver hits a pothole at 110 I don't think the suspension components and tracking would be too happy about it. Nor would the new owner when he's got to foot the bill for tracking and a new set of tires 8months down the line!

Point being, driving hard a per-delivered car =

[Welshbeef]

What about At the docks? All the cars are driven out by port staff.

You sure they wait for engine to warm up or start and go given they have thousands to move....and if its a sports car why not give it some lead foot who would ever know unless you have an incident or a Porsche rev zone 1/2/3 over rev issue on the Meztger engines?

[Rich_W]

Welshbeef said:

What about At the docks? All the cars are driven out by port staff.

You sure they wait for engine to warm up or start and go given they have thousands to move....and if its a sports car why not give it some lead foot who would ever know unless you have an incident or a Porsche rev zone 1/2/3 over rev issue on the Meztger engines?

2 words.

"Transport Mode"

[NateWM]

Every single car has been thrashed when new, including mine and including yours OP.

I've seen with my own eyes how the valeting lads treat brand new cars when performing PDI. It's enough to make you cry, but it happens to every car!

[New POD]

I once saw a brand new freelander parked on top of the barriers on the Knowsley Express Way. Trade Plates, straight off the night shift, at Halewood, on their "extended quality run"

I guess that inspector was back fitting wheel nuts soon after.

[Jimbo.]

Rich_W said:

2 words.

"Transport Mode"

Never saw that when I was in that particular game!