Jaguar bids farewell to F-Type with V8 ZP Edition
Officially the last petrol Jaguar sports car ever celebrates racing E-Types
So this is it, then. After 10 years - and a whole lot of fun in the process - these are the last Jaguar F-Types. The last petrol Jaguar sports cars, no less, which is momentous for a company of such history when it comes to two-door, two-seat driving machines, all the way back to the XK120. But the only constant is change, and Jaguar will be an all-electric brand the year after next. So the F-Type, and its combustion powered shenanigans, must go. Sob.
To bid it farewell, Jaguar has created the ZP Edition. There will be just 150 of them, available in two SV Bespoke liveries that mirror those seen on the E-Type ZP Collection cars shown last year. There’s Oulton Blue with a Mars Red and Ebony interior, or Crystal Grey with Navy Blue and Ebony inside. Both get the Porcelain White roundels (hand painted, in fact) and grille surrounds. We’re going to assume that both Coupe and Roadster can be had in either colourway, though the SV Bespoke paint finishes are unique to the ZPs. Note also the ZP Edition badges on the wings, diamond turned 20-inch wheels and interior plaque. It’s modest by the standards of final editions (and most certainly by those ending 75 years of sports car heritage), but then Jaguar has rather more on its plate for the moment than 150 F-Types.
Every ZP Edition will be a V8, the flagship 575hp derivative sending the F-Type off in appropriately rambunctious fashion. All-wheel drive means 0-62mph in 3.5 seconds, and the top speed is 186mph. Jaguar suggests this car is an ‘unrepeatable celebration of Jaguar’s internal combustion sports car provenance’, which a run through the first few gears will probably have buyers agreeing with. The F-Type has never been perfect, but that supercharged 5.0-litre has undoubtedly plastered a lot of smiles across faces over the past decade.
Of the 150 ZP Editions that will be made, just 10 are being allocated for the UK market, so it’ll be an exceptionally rare F-Type. The Coupe costs £134,925, the Convertible £138,390. (Which arguably makes the facelift P575s available from £60k seem even better value.) Once these ZPs are built, that’s it, and any future Jaguar sports car will be battery powered - maybe they could call it the E-Type…
If you read the automotive news everyday you’d surely have a closer idea than that.
Anyway, P575 - preferably sans roundels - is a lovely thing.
It’s fine on track cars but seems like a strange affectation on what will be a road car that never sees a circuit, and unless actually racing you don’t need one on a track day.
Otherwise, lovely and does t seem that long since they came out, still kind of favour the XK somehow though.
If you read the automotive news everyday you’d surely have a closer idea than that.
Anyway, P575 - preferably sans roundels - is a lovely thing.
I always rated a Jag as being above a Rover but below an Aston or a Bentley. But maybe the world has changed now and people don't have aspirations in that sort of way.
I remember reading a classic put down (depending on your point of view) in these forums where someone dismissed a Jag as "Too Brexity".
I think the current XE looks great.
Did such a good job on the design.
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