RE: Paris 2012: F-Type, full details
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snaelro said:
according to another british mag :
it is expensive - from £58,500 to £80,000 for the V8
it is big - 21mm shorter than than 911, 128mm longer than boxster - 115mm wider than 911
it is heavy - 1596kg for the lightest, which is only 63kg lighter than the XK 5.0 V8, and +207kg compare to 911, +250kg compare to boxster...
the boot is only 200L. a Z4 with hard top folded in is 180L...
Really thought it would be smaller. It is quite a bit bigger than the 991 and heavier too. Far more exciting than a 991 though.it is expensive - from £58,500 to £80,000 for the V8
it is big - 21mm shorter than than 911, 128mm longer than boxster - 115mm wider than 911
it is heavy - 1596kg for the lightest, which is only 63kg lighter than the XK 5.0 V8, and +207kg compare to 911, +250kg compare to boxster...
the boot is only 200L. a Z4 with hard top folded in is 180L...
snaelro said:
according to another british mag :
it is expensive - from £58,500 to £80,000 for the V8
it is big - 21mm shorter than than 911, 128mm longer than boxster - 115mm wider than 911
it is heavy - 1596kg for the lightest, which is only 63kg lighter than the XK 5.0 V8, and +207kg compare to 911, +250kg compare to boxster...
the boot is only 200L. a Z4 with hard top folded in is 180L...
So it's crap then.it is expensive - from £58,500 to £80,000 for the V8
it is big - 21mm shorter than than 911, 128mm longer than boxster - 115mm wider than 911
it is heavy - 1596kg for the lightest, which is only 63kg lighter than the XK 5.0 V8, and +207kg compare to 911, +250kg compare to boxster...
the boot is only 200L. a Z4 with hard top folded in is 180L...
tino2479 said:
Do not like the rear 3/4 view at all in the last photograph, maybe its the red body sandwiched between the black rag top and the black diffuser that makes it look... squashed?
Imho red doesn't suit it at all. That grey looks stunning though. Thumbs up to Jaguar, sure looks like its going to be one hell of a car.
Richard330s said:
+1 with all the positive comments.
First time that the GT3 Porsche option looks like it may get some new and competent challenge!
I would be surprised if it surpasses the Boxster S, never mind the GT3.First time that the GT3 Porsche option looks like it may get some new and competent challenge!
I hope it does match it but past form does not suggest it will.
Looks nice though and the V8 will sound lush.
F1GTRUeno said:
snaelro said:
according to another british mag :
it is expensive - from £58,500 to £80,000 for the V8
it is big - 21mm shorter than than 911, 128mm longer than boxster - 115mm wider than 911
it is heavy - 1596kg for the lightest, which is only 63kg lighter than the XK 5.0 V8, and +207kg compare to 911, +250kg compare to boxster...
the boot is only 200L. a Z4 with hard top folded in is 180L...
So it's crap then.it is expensive - from £58,500 to £80,000 for the V8
it is big - 21mm shorter than than 911, 128mm longer than boxster - 115mm wider than 911
it is heavy - 1596kg for the lightest, which is only 63kg lighter than the XK 5.0 V8, and +207kg compare to 911, +250kg compare to boxster...
the boot is only 200L. a Z4 with hard top folded in is 180L...
I have to say that if I won the lottery a chunck of it would go to JLR as I do pride myself in never owning a foreign made car in my 19 years of driving with over 35 cars having passed through my ownership in that time (not all as my personal car) I know that JLR is an India owned company but the cars are designed and made here supporting British jobs and companies, bring it on thats what I say. I think its time we took over the reigns from the Germans. (mental note of lottery shopping list Supercharged Range Rover, lwb XJR and now the F type added to the list.
tail slide said:
Looks great, but yet again demanding sports car drivers who CAN tell the difference are going to be robbed of a mechanical lsd on the most powerful Jag, which would give consistent precisely controllable oversteer IF the right foot requests it. According to the demanding road test journalists (Evo, Autocar) no electro-pseudo-lsd has come close to that yet, which is why the best of the Jag's competitors have a mechanical one.
Mike Cross either doesn't 'get' real sports car handling, or more likely has to pander to the average driver.
E-Diff is catagorically not what you think it is. Jags E-Diff is an electrically controlled mechanically locking LSD which is superior to a helical, clutched or any other type of LSD. Normal diffs are dumb as to what the car is doing when they lock ad unlock. E-Diff uses all the dynamic sensors in the car to control when and how much it locks. So the list in performance goes:Mike Cross either doesn't 'get' real sports car handling, or more likely has to pander to the average driver.
Open->ESP braked open diff->LSD->E-Diff
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